Transportation: Stuck Close to Neutral
No place exemplifies the recent partisan cracks in transportation policy — and the Obama administration’s willingness to move forward without Congress — quite like California, home of what’s perhaps the
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No place exemplifies the recent partisan cracks in transportation policy — and the Obama administration’s willingness to move forward without Congress — quite like California, home of what’s perhaps the
“Montana is a state that takes great pride in transparency in government, and this just goes against that,” said Sen.
“I believe that the regulators should think hard about starting over again with a simple rule based on the underlying economics of the transaction, not on its label or accounting treatment,” she said in
“I think that probably he thought that in the past it was overly used, and he wanted to work with Congress,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said about Obama’s initial views of Bush-era
“What I’m about to announce will not come as much of a surprise,” Dreier said from the well of the House.
“I don’t see what choice I have,” the Nevada Democrat said on the floor in reference to the proposal, which he believes is distracting the Senate from finishing work on the $109 billion, two-year
It passed the House without controversy but stalled in the Senate when an unnamed lawmaker blocked action. Norton suspects it was a Senator looking to gain political leverage on an unrelated issue.
Republicans have hammered Democrats for not passing a budget while they were in power, but divisions among House Budget Committee Republicans might leave them without a budget this year, too.
Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) pointed out, they have only intensified. Lieberman flatly declared that the president’s defense budget leaves the United States assuming an “unacceptable” level of risk.
“This would be a more accurate and fair representation of our state and I continue to remain hopeful that the Supreme Court will intercede on behalf of all Missourians,” Carnahan said.
“Generally, I explain to people that it’s a lively place,” said Patrick Crowley, former chairman of the association’s board and now interim senior manager.
I don’t see any reason why we wouldn’t pass them overwhelmingly again [and] send them to the Senate.
Asked to respond, Grayson calmly noted that “somehow I’ve succeeded in life that A) I was elected to Congress and B) I was the sixth-richest Member of the House when I was there.”
It means that I am afraid of Islam without any reason,” she said. “The whole world is afraid of Islam, let’s face it. … This is not a phobia; this is a real fear.”
“At this point, the likelihood of a budget autonomy bill passing without riders is an open question,” DC Vote Executive Director Ilir Zherka said.
I know you’re shocked by that.
followers of a New York rabbi alleged that Grimm and an aide to the rabbi told them they “would find a way to accept donations that were over the legal limit, were given in cash or were given by foreigners without
(The Constitution permits the president to unilaterally make temporary appointments to fill vacancies without confirmation by the Senate if it is in recess.)
No Republican has won the White House without winning its electoral votes.
“You’ve got three very different candidates,” one Democratic strategist said. “I think it’s going to get dirty, and I do think it is going to be close.”