Heard on the Hill: Mini-Meek
Perhaps — the Congressman likes to joke that the only thing standing between his son and Congress is the Constitution, Sharon said. Department of Pots and Kettles. Sen.
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Perhaps — the Congressman likes to joke that the only thing standing between his son and Congress is the Constitution, Sharon said. Department of Pots and Kettles. Sen.
“I understand that some will try to delay action until the special interests can kill it, while some will focus on trying to score political points,— Obama said during a Rose Garden appearance.
“I have been advised by Sen. Sessions that the Republicans wish to put over the nomination of Judge Sotomayor.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson (Conn.) said it would be “pretty difficult— to keep Democrats together to pay for shutting down Guantánamo without some direction from Obama.
“I don’t think staying in session is necessarily necessary to continue to work on getting consensus,— he told reporters at his weekly roundtable, adding that he would make a decision on the matter next
“My passion is that children born in this century have the same opportunity I had to live the American dream,— Felton Newell said in a video released on his campaign Web site.
The Senate Judiciary Committee wrapped up its confirmation hearings of Supreme Court hopeful Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday night without the kind of meltdown that Republicans had said would be their only
These days, it goes without saying that the nation’s financial situation is less than ideal.
I have spent some time over the last couple of months understanding reconciliation.
Her work schedule, she said, usually doesn’t leave much time for trips to farmers markets. “This offers us an opportunity to get local fresh produce,— she said. “I really like it.
“The NRCC and I have not communicated,— Schwarz said. “I don’t know if we’ve ever communicated, but we certainly haven’t in the last year or so.
“Now on to the issues. … I begin with an area of cases which the court has decided not to decide,— Specter then said.
But that’s clearly not what I intended in the context of my broader speech,— Sotomayor said, arguing that her record demonstrates that she has acted fairly and without bias.But Sessions was undeterred
“I am disappointed that it is taking this long,— said Dave Wenhold, president of the American League of Lobbyists.
“I was told early on, when I was tempted to sing a line or two of a song when I got on the floor, that the last guy that did that … lost his election,— Hall said.
“I was trying to play on … words. My play fell flat. It was bad because it left an impression that I believe that life experiences command a result in a case.
“We are now closer to our goal of health care reform than we have ever been,— he said.
Here’s Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander’s (Tenn.) take: “I can’t imagine passing a health care bill without debating it fully and amending it over a several week period of time.— </
that judges be impartial and follow the law without prejudice.
“As I made clear at the time it was passed, the [American] Recovery [and Reinvestment] Act was not designed to work in four months — it was designed to work over two years,— the president said.