House GOP Is Pleased
“While I can be critical of this bill, it’s still better than anything I’ve seen at the end of the year since I’ve been here,” Boehner said.
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“While I can be critical of this bill, it’s still better than anything I’ve seen at the end of the year since I’ve been here,” Boehner said.
our actions without fully understanding all aspects of the matters at hand.
“It would be very difficult for someone without the stature of Sen. Elizabeth Dole [R-N.C.] to move back to North Carolina and run for governor,” a state GOP source said.
“I tried very hard to work with the president but he indicated he would still use the recess … to appoint objectionable nominees,” Reid said on the Senate floor Wednesday night.
“There would have been a special election, and we Democrats have a hard time winning special elections,” Frost said. Wilson acceded, but not without grief.
“[It] was a major turning point in American history in the 20th century,” Ritchie said in an interview, adding that the recent book is one in a series on key elections.
“I wish we had passed it earlier,” Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said. “It would have been better for everybody all around.”
Bush had conditioned his willingness to sign the overall omnibus on whether it included the war funding he had asked for without timelines for troop withdrawals.
“I don’t care how moderate they are,” one Republican leadership aide said of Coleman and Corker.
One Democratic source said a nonbinding Sense of the Senate resolution was a possibility.
Congressional Democrats also are trying to make the best out of the likelihood that they will have to pass an alternative minimum tax patch without offsetting tax hikes and a budget near President
“I am surprised that there’s not more discussion by the elected and the candidates for that matter about what to do about this rising level of gun violence,” said Paul Helmke, head of the Brady Center
“There are aspects of the safe harbor here that I think can directly make people feel as though they can engage in activities under this guidance that could very easily be seen as circumventing the
If that happens as expected, “I certainly will be voting against it,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said.
Ethics Manual says “the principle behind such advice is that the judicial system is the appropriate forum for the resolution of legal disputes and, therefore, the system should be allowed to function without
“I’ll tell you how soon I will make a decision when I know how soon the Senate will sell us out,” Obey said after meetings among Democratic leaders in both chambers ended without any announcement
Pernod lobbyists questioned Suchlicki testifying on the issue without first coming forward to the committee with his Bacardi ties.
A spokeswoman for House Administration ranking member Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich.) said Beard purchased the credits without waiting until the Government Accountability Office released a report on the CCX, which
But GOP sources said they doubted the bill would be introduced without any earmarks, and even if Obey claimed the bill was clean, they would still need to read it to make sure.
And in October, the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee approved legislation already passed by the House to overhaul the National Flood Insurance Program, but without a provision