Republicans, appropriators dominate House earmarks
Henry Cuellar, has a big jump in earmarked dollars — just over $1 million to buy laboratory equipment for Texas A&M International University — from last year when he received zero.Â
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Henry Cuellar, has a big jump in earmarked dollars — just over $1 million to buy laboratory equipment for Texas A&M International University — from last year when he received zero.Â
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ record-setting "magic minute" speech — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Trump’s personal intervention helped seal the deal for reluctant members, including a 1
Those seats were filled by special elections on April 1. The risk of a lawmaker dying is not just that the seat could fall into the hands of the opposite party in a special election.
They forced a 20-hour session debating the bill and amendments in the House Rules Committee, in a meeting that started at 1 a.m. Wednesday.
Nine hours after the 1 a.m. start of the meeting, the various committee chairs and ranking members with jurisdiction over the reconciliation bill were still testifying.
Senators maintain they intend to include much deeper cuts of at least $1 trillion and potentially twice that amount, but the House holdouts want to see specifics on paper.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on April 1.
A $4.5 trillion ceiling could impose some limits on what they’d like to do, which independent estimates have said would cost at least $1 trillion extra and probably more.