Reid Admits Student Loan Deal Is Unlikely
The Congressional Budget Office has determined this legislation would reduce the deficit by $1 billion over ten years.” Of course, that last deficit reduction piece is the rub.
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Coons Asks Cruz to Amend Immigration Letter
p> Updated text: “Coons 9” was removed from the original version of the letter because that amendment actually was used as a shell to amend another Coons measure, “Coons 1.
Durbin Predicted NSA, Verizon Controversy in 2009
lifted and future generations will ask whether our actions today meet the test of a democratic society — transparency, accountability and fidelity to the rule of law and our Constitution,” he said on Oct. 1,
McCain’s Syria Visit Won’t Make Obama’s Path Forward Easier
And one Syrian activist told CNN that McCain only travelled about 1 kilometer into Syrian territory. But the picture in Syria is very complicated for Obama.
Senate Fish Fight
Catfish farming is estimated to be nearly a $1 billion-a-year industry in Arkansas.
The Importance of Family Immigration | Commentary
AAPIs are twice as likely to hold jobs in these fields as any other immigrant group, with as many as 1 in 5 workers employed in the engineering and technology sector.
Mikulski Pushing Spending Bills, Even Absent a Budget
“We hope to have the regular order and have all of our bills marked up and through the full committee by Aug. 1,” she said, adding that she hopes to get some of the bills through the floor as well
Warren’s First Bill Targets Student Loan Rate Hike
This time, the Massachusetts Democrat is pushing legislation to prevent a scheduled jump in the interest rate on federal student loans that’s due to take effect on July 1.
10 Immigration Amendments to Watch
Here are just 10 of the amendments worth watching: 1. Uniting American Families Act Judiciary Chairman Patrick J.
Portman Won’t Support ENDA in Current Form
that is exempt from the religious discrimination provisions of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 pursuant (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.) to section 702(a) or 703(e)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 2000e-1(
Solving the Fiscal Impasse Starts and Ends at the Pentagon
Taking account what was passed into law as part of the fiscal cliff deal, a fiscally responsible and balanced approach would secure an additional $1 trillion in new revenue to match the massive cuts to
Polis and Blumenauer: Unfair Tariffs Make Working Families Pay
Thrifty cotton and polyester work shirts carry 16 percent and 32 percent tariffs, respectively, while a silk Armani shirt comes with only a 1 percent tariff.
Boustany: Recess Appointment Circumvents Public Vetting
[IMGCAP(1)]Rationing care involves denying or limiting treatment options based solely on cost.
Woolsey: It’s Time to Bring Troops Home From Afghanistan
[IMGCAP(1)]That kind of plea might have worked 80 months ago, but do they not see the irony or the disconnect in preaching patience about a war that is now the longest the nation has ever fought?
Gephardt and Thompson: Steep Costs Damage Families, Businesses
We currently spend less than 1 percent of our health care dollar on prevention when, according to the World Health Organization, at least 80 percent of all heart disease, stroke and Type 2 diabetes and
Democrats Quick to Politicize Health Care in Stimulus
[IMGCAP(1)] During the current economic stimulus dispute, House Democrats objections to a Senate agreement that taxpayers should fund research on clinical effectiveness, rather than cost effectiveness
Taking Executive Privilege to Absurd Levels?
[IMGCAP(1)] To take one important example, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) recently subpoenaed former Bush White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to testify in the controversy
Republicans Not Entitled to Their Own Set of Facts
And they say that Republicans managed to swing the Clinton surplus $1 trillion in the wrong direction, into record deficits, combined with unprecedented foreign borrowing. Or take energy policy.
Building Broun’s Office
[IMGCAP(1)] A graduate of George Mason’s master’s program in public policy, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in political science from Kutztown University in southeastern Pennsylvania.