Conservatives Surprise on CR
We just did not have enough support here in our own party,” DeMint said.
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We just did not have enough support here in our own party,” DeMint said.
“I know that I’ve put my party in a somewhat precarious position, and I apologize for that, in that I was nominated in the primary,” LaTourette said Tuesday during a news conference in Ohio, where
“What was clear was that we can’t send our Members home in the middle of a drought without any action,” one House GOP leadership aide said before the session.
starting today, in accordance with the law, new health care plans will have to start offering preventive services — including contraception and HIV screening and counseling for sexually active women — without
I hope that we can face the challenges ahead in the same spirit of compromise.” At a press availability this afternoon, Reid added that the continuing resolution would be “free of riders.”
Current funding runs out at the end of the government’s fiscal year Sept. 30, and without new appropriations or a stopgap continuing resolution, the government would shut down.
I voted for him and will continue to vote for him,” Bishop J. Drew Sheard said. “I didn’t tell you what to do. I just told you what I’m going to do.”
Senators asked the Postal Service to delay shuttering post offices until the Senate passed Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) overhaul bill, which the chamber
The House is ready and willing to begin those discussions, and I would urge Senate Democrats to come to the table so this critical legislation can be sent to the president for his signature as soon as
I will be a willing partner to any Democrat, including the president, to fix this,” said Sen.
So the court said states could choose to opt out of the expansion without risking all their Medicaid funds.
“It’s a way to help more within a legal framework,” said a Washington-based Republican fundraiser who is not affiliated with the Romney campaign.
Several candidates mentioned Clarke in their answers, and Peters alluded to him once without his name.
Coburn said he will not support efforts to expedite the legislation without changing the offset to one that actually pays for the measure as the spending happens.
“We’re not going to give unanimous consent,” Hoyer said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast this morning.
Jim Webb (D-Va.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) voted against both plans. Lieberman wants to take broader action on the federal debt now.
They owe the American people a serious debate on this proposal,” Reid said before McConnell’s announcement this morning.
Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the cyber-threat is the only other threat on the same level as Russia’s stockpile of nuclear weapons.
“The Majority Leader and I are under discussions as to how we proceed to vote on taxes.
But I think you will see Democrats very engaged on this issue,” the Connecticut lawmaker told reporters.