CR Votes Could Clear Way for Bipartisan Deal
Senate Democrats and House Republicans said Senate votes as soon as today on competing stopgap spending bills could break their impasse over how to fund the government through Sept.
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Senate Democrats and House Republicans said Senate votes as soon as today on competing stopgap spending bills could break their impasse over how to fund the government through Sept.
“When we say we are going to cut spending, read my lips, we are going to cut spending,” the Ohio Republican said at a press conference Thursday.
The GOP leadership-backed measure would essentially reinstate a ban on D.C. abortion funding that the Democratic-controlled Congress and President Barack Obama lifted in 2009.
The Wyoming Republican used the weekly GOP radio address to press for a vote on the health care repeal in the Senate. The House passed a bill to repeal the law earlier this week.
In a Tuesday conference call with reporters, Dorgan said he’s “very pleased to be able to do this. I think it’s going to be very exciting.”
Indeed, Cantor had a rough first press conference as Majority Leader that day, with reporters asking him about Summers’ comments as well as why the Republicans’ plan for next week’s
Under Democrats’ controversial plan to change Senate rules, the first day of the 112th Congress will last about two and a half weeks.