In Senate, Flip-flops Come Easy for Both Parties
He added, “We had a totally unrelated amendment injected, I believe, for partisan purposes.”
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He added, “We had a totally unrelated amendment injected, I believe, for partisan purposes.”
“He said, ‘This is Jim.’ I’d only been there for two weeks and I said, ‘Jim who? Oh!’ So I quickly learned his voice.”
“I think people [in D.C.] get it, and I think people outside the District will get it, too,” Getzschman said.
But Cole also attributed his policy to a belief that candidates who navigate a primary without help or anointing from Washington, D.C., insiders emerge battle-tested for the general election and in a better
[IMGCAP(2)] Before stumping for Webb, Smith worked for Fenton Communications as the account director for organizations such as MoveOn.org, Win Without War and the 2005 “Vote for Change” concerts.
“Our officers did an outstanding job,” Morse said, according to a release from the department.
What I am saying is that I don’t agree with those who have concluded that her negatives are so great that she cannot beat a strong Republican nominee next year.
This is not a race that is a lock for Republicans,” McInnis said.
Tom Davis (R-Va.) introduced a bill Tuesday that would allow the city to enact its own budget without oversight from Capitol Hill.
[IMGCAP(1)] Without listing exactly what he’d like to see go into such a capsule, Mica said that “there may be some history relating to the visitor center and to our contemporary times that should
He doesn’t cause problems,” McFadden said. “I never see him engaged in anything but walking and eating,” he added. “He doesn’t miss any meals.”
I think virtually nothing of consequence passes or is enacted without working together, both sides of the aisle and both houses and with the administration,” Baucus said, explaining that this reality is
Nearly 18 months after Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana and Mississippi, HOH thought it likely everything that could be said about the tragedy already had been said.
But, Hewitt said, Iraq is not an issue on which Republicans can be flexible. “The war is not an issue on which you can live to fight another day,” he said.
It is not hard to imagine why officials in 1950s Alabama might have wanted to know the names of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People members, and why the Supreme Court said
Several years ago I puzzled aloud to a friend over what seemed to be an oxymoronic name for a committee: the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Democrats postponed a vote on a DeMint minimum-wage proposal to give themselves time to figure out a way to sink it without making their own Members appear opposed to even higher wages in certain
The Democrats’ takeover of the House has left a lot of former GOP committee chairmen and would-be chairmen without a seat at the top table.
“We had to make this point, and I think we did it,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said of the unsuccessful vote to close debate on a minimum-wage bill that did not include small-business
“I welcome the president’s change in tone,” he said. “But though [Bush’s] tone sounds more accepting of other views, his basic policies so far have not changed.”