Budget Debate Rests on Fate of Bush’s Tax Cuts
“He could have gotten a balanced bill without raising revenues by $900 billion and without increasing spending,” complained Senate Budget ranking member Judd Gregg (R-N.H.).
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“He could have gotten a balanced bill without raising revenues by $900 billion and without increasing spending,” complained Senate Budget ranking member Judd Gregg (R-N.H.).
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Specter added, “Now, I think that the inquiry by the Judiciary Committee ought to have at least a modicum of objectivity, and if Mr.
Even without free-standing legislation, freshmen are finding that leadership is making room for local priorities on other bills that are moving through the House. At the request of Rep.
On that front, Senators have been holding talks for weeks — both bipartisan and partisan, with and without the White House — as they hope to craft a bill that can move before the electoral politics of
Trade Representative to negotiate trade deals, and Congress must approve or deny the deals without amendments. Fast track expires this summer.
“I don’t think it’s going to happen because I think the president is going to react very negatively,” Cooper said.
I am generally very careful to remain in compliance with the ethics rules.
“Every year I enter,” he says, but a Gilchrest crab has yet to win. “I think it’s fixed.”
“I’d say this one is a full-court press,” said one Democratic aide, who asked not to be named. “It’s all hands on deck.”
Circulator will have a new loop that will go around the National Mall, allowing easy access to many upcoming events without requiring the use of a car.
“He certainly was trying to give us the feeling that we should be hopeful and that we would get the information,” Schumer said. “I urged Mr.
“The last thing we wanted to do was put people in the wrong position,” Bertman said.
Without reauthorization of the bills — which provide funds for conservation of endangered elephants, tigers and rhinoceros in Asia and Africa — “there is a chance that these magnificent species may
“If they want to violate their own rule and hide their earmark requests, I don’t know what we are going to do,” he said.
They put checks on every substantial power that government can exercise: the power to declare and go to war, the power to tax, the power to imprison without trial, the power to search someone’s home or
From the beginning, club leaders maintained that the group backs candidates without any regard to their views on social issues.
The measure, a compromise designed to approve D.C. voting rights without upsetting the partisan balance in Congress, grants a vote for strongly Democratic D.C. and a new seat to largely Republican Utah
“When they walked up towards the Capitol I think there was this epiphany, this eureka moment, when Henry Folger said, ‘This is where the library ought to be. It ought to be near the U.S.
“I do not kid myself to think we could get enough votes to overide a presidential veto,” he said.