Lott Move Will Leave GOP Void
“I didn’t feel Sen. McConnell used Sen. Lott effectively at a time when he should have played a bigger role in reaching some agreements,” Durbin said.
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“I didn’t feel Sen. McConnell used Sen. Lott effectively at a time when he should have played a bigger role in reaching some agreements,” Durbin said.
“That certainly makes it a competitive three-way race,” Kevin Igoe, a Maryland-based GOP consultant, said. “I don’t know how that affects it.
“I think it’s a very, very adaptable story,” said the playwright, James Magruder, who had never read the Dickens story until he began writing this new version.
One resident who did not want to be identified said he lived along U Street Northwest during its revitalization and sees H Street progressing on a similarly positive path — without the moratorium.
“If the president wants that $50 billion released, all he has to do is to call the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, and ask him to stop blocking it,” Obey said.
“I’m very pleased with it,” he said. “It addressed everything we asked for.”
“I think the fact that there are so many Udalls in past and present in political arena in the American West and in Washington is more of a national story,” said Sanderoff, who is president of Research
“But without subpoena power, the intermediary institution will just be a filter without the power to do anything.
“If I’m finished with anything, I think the world’s stopped,” he said in an interview before a draft of the task force’s proposal was circulated to Members last week, saying the new proposal would
hear some of the early Democratic buzz (and even media hype) about Scott Kleeb’s chances in the Nebraska Senate race, you’d think the Cornhusker State’s 2008 Senate race might be worth watching, even without
The news came without fanfare and without much of a heads-up to Congressional colleagues, despite the fact that for weeks several Hill insiders said privately the Senator was leaning toward retirement
“What I think it will show is that a lot of these guys have been living in fantasy land,” Van Hollen said.
I regret any inconvenience you may have been caused regarding this matter.” McCotter concluded the e-mail with the phrase “Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem.”
“I don’t think this bill is the end of the world, as some have indicated,” then-Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.) said of BCRA on the Senate floor in March 2002.
“I would like to see the bill come up [this] week,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday. “But … we are still maybe hoping against hope that we could have a conference on the bill.”
allows him to divert funding from regular Pentagon accounts to fund the war, Democrats believe they’ve insulated themselves from accusations that they are withholding money from soldiers “in harm’s way,” without
“I have no idea what we’re going to do yet,” Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said last week. “I won’t know until we see the [House] bill and until I’ve talked more to Members.”
“The only thing I can really tell you is that the guidance is coming and there will be ample time to digest the nature of the change.”
He said the goal is to have legislation worked out with the Senate beforehand so it could pass the Senate without changes and go straight to the president.
“I was a businesswoman for 20 years,” Bonoff said. “I was an executive at a public corporation. … I have a tremendous depth of experience in making things happen.