Rep. Dingell Makes History
Henry Waxmans (D-Calif.) ascension to the top of the committee after the 2008 elections.
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Henry Waxmans (D-Calif.) ascension to the top of the committee after the 2008 elections.
Hes a long way from Humble (pronounced Umble).
But the House voted largely along party lines to table the measure Tuesday, circumventing a direct vote on Rangels chairmanship.
Amid lingering questions over her husbands tax payments, Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) is unlikely to be confirmed as Labor secretary until after the Presidents Day recess.
Alfred Brock, a 64-year-old from Winnfield, La., drove up to the Capitols north barricade at about 4 p.m. and he told officers he had a delivery for President Barack Obama, police spokeswoman Sgt.
Thats not the process. He was responding to Specters statement Monday that his support for the legislation hinges on the Senate compromise bill coming back from conference virtually intact.
Similarly, Doolittles defense fund raised about $116,000 through the end of 2008, and about $93,000 was spent.
. Hill said Obama understands that some Members of Congress are not very excited about statutory PAYGO and that theres some political work to be done to make sure its going to happen. … I think
Its full of waste, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor.
Right now, Wall Streets former financial titans are like zombie companies more dead than alive.
The House ethics committee voted Tuesday to continue its investigation into Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangels (D-N.Y.) personal finances and other activities.
If its school construction money, the additions probably would not fly, but aid to states could make it back in, aides and Senators said Tuesday.
Already, the groups membership spans the ideological spectrum of the broader House Democratic Caucus. That diversity is reflected in its three vice chairs: Rep.
Goode would not a discuss a timeline for the Fishers final decision.
Thats especially important considering that the three Senate Republicans who gave Reid the votes he needed for passage are expected to have tight parameters for their continued support of a conference
The moral of a story generally seems to come at its close, so perhaps it makes sense that it is not until the end of Ben Wattenbergs new book that a definition and mission of neoconservatism really takes
Theres no question what weve got to do is go after support for education.
But implicit in Obamas argument was that it is the GOP, not he, who is to blame for the partisan divide that has so far characterized the debate over Obamas first significant initiative.
Out-of-control spending added to the countrys economic woes. But Bushs tax policies werent the root cause of this economic crisis.
Republicans tried to concoct a devils bargain for their votes, Leahy said, defending his truth commission proposal as a fair-minded pursuit of what happened. Leahys commission initiative