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The country is sharply divided, lawmakers are savagely denounced and the willingness to compromise is in short supply. The debate over health care? Try the battle over slavery in the mid-19th century.
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The country is sharply divided, lawmakers are savagely denounced and the willingness to compromise is in short supply. The debate over health care? Try the battle over slavery in the mid-19th century.
David Obey’s (D) seat after the weekend.
Serrano is part of the reason that the D.C.
Although the partisan divide in the Senate makes passage less likely, Grijalva said that should not stop the Senate from taking up a bill, in part because the debate would give Democrats an opportunity
to pass a bill out of the Senate.
of an enemy of the U.S.
issues — on which the GOP believes it holds the political advantage.
manned the platform.
The Winners: • Both Public Opinion Strategies (polling) and the Faulkner Group (direct mail) scored four wins each in the Hoosier State.
Despite McConnell’s position as the most senior elected Republican in the country, the leader of the “loyal opposition” never fields calls from the commander in chief and sees him only at White House
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden separately interviewed Diane Wood about the Supreme Court vacancy on Tuesday, according to a source with knowledge of the conversations.
Robert Hurt (R) is a leading candidate in the Republican primary for the seat of freshman Rep. Tom Perriello (D).
LeMieux, in a brief interview with reporters just off the Senate floor, declined to speculate as to what help he might provide Rubio in the general election, saying: “I haven’t crossed that bridge
Pickens also offered his thoughts on the massive oil slick now approaching the shores of the Gulf of Mexico.
If they can help the Teamsters force the government to change the federal law, it will allow the Teamsters to organize much more easily the trucking industry in the ports.”
“I am a huge history nerd and he is, too, and so we were trading stuff in my interview,” she said. “I was like, Oh, did you know this about the Capitol?’ He was like, No, did you know this?’
“There’s probably about 350 different charges he’s guilty of: attempted acts of terror against the United States, attempted murder,” McCain said Tuesday on the syndicated radio show “Imus in the
in the GOP’s initial response to the nominee, as will other members of the committee.
In an interview last week, Myrick derided Markey’s use of the committee’s letterhead, characterizing his efforts to ban the substance as a personal campaign.
too unwieldy and expensive, so the Potomac Institute now runs the supper club, they said in an interview Friday.