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The White House has yet to nominate anyone for the top food safety slot at the Agriculture Department, but public health and consumer advocates have already started a quiet campaign against the job’s frontrunner
Some on the left, meanwhile, are unhappy with the compromises and concessions to industry groups that Waxman made to secure the votes of other moderates for the package, with some environmental groups
It really is,— Ensign said in an interview Thursday, when asked if he was interested in making a bid for the White House in 2012. “The daunting responsibility of that job is just overwhelming.
With the Senate preparing for the first Supreme Court confirmation of the Obama era, Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is already trying to smooth the process, making peace offerings to ranking
The House will probably adjourn for the Memorial Day recess Thursday without having resolved differences with the Senate on the war funding bill, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said in an interview
“I’m enthusiastically supporting Arlen Specter for the Democratic nomination and for re-election to the Senate,— Fattah said in a phone interview Tuesday.
The lecture will take place at 7 tonight at the Warner Theatre.
“He was arguably the greatest Speaker in the history of the House of Representatives,— he said in an interview. “They really should have a big portrait of him in the chamber.
“If Mitch McConnell doesn’t endorse me, it could be the best thing that ever happened to me in Kentucky,— Bunning said, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.In a Sunday show interview over the weekend
The former Speaker declined repeated interview requests for this article.
Energy and climate change legislation is one of the top priorities for the Obama administration and the 111th Congress.
Roger Bedford , who had said he was seriously thinking about a run for the open seat, told the Political Parlor blog in his home state that he would defer.
“I am very concerned about the whole idea of closing down primaries,” Bronson said in a telephone interview with CQPolitics on Monday afternoon.
“He is going to interview people he thinks are qualified and pick the person he thinks is best qualified,— Gibbs said.
Bush signed the law to commemorate Asians’ and Pacific Islanders’ contributions to the United States. The month was chosen because of notable historic events.
“Last time, the Republicans controlled more seats at the redistricting table than at any time since 1920,— former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) said in a recent interview.
for the GOP.
President Barack Obama is “making progress— toward naming a Supreme Court nominee, but he has yet to personally interview candidates, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday.
Billy Tauzin (R-La.), president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, said the clock is ticking for lawmakers, the White House and private industry to fix the nation’s health care
was airing on the USA Network at the same time as the hearing.