House Leaves Town Without Resolving FAA Stalemate
“I have been on the phone all weekend with people that can make this happen,” LaHood said.
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“I have been on the phone all weekend with people that can make this happen,” LaHood said.
So I think it’s an insulting process,” DeMint said. “The process is insulting to the country that’s supposed to be the model of democracy.
that would cut benefits for seniors without asking the wealthy to sacrifice as well.
“Any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan,” Obama said.
“I want to disabuse my friend of the notion that somehow [his plan] is going to pass,” McConnell said to Reid on the floor.
said late Saturday night on the floor.
“By the end of the day today, I must take action on the Senate’s compromise legislation,” Reid said on the floor Friday.
In a recent column, Duffy wrote: “I have consistently said that if the president is willing to cut up the credit card, I’m willing to pay the bill.
However, Reid said Republicans have repeatedly refused to compromise on the issue. “We’ve got a closet full of triggers,” he said.
“I urge you to support this legislation or to work with me and other members of Congress to constructively improve upon it,” Toomey said in the letter.
“If that is the way it is, I think they are going to pay a huge price in the next election for their intransigence and recklessness,” Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said when told of Cantor’s remark.
But they surely wouldn’t have risen as much without the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the 1990s, there were terrorist attacks, too, but they did not create a bump in business for the industry.
And with so much of the debate focused on deficit reduction, one senior Democratic staffer said, “I think that makes us look out of touch, if everyone is for cuts, but us.”
“Three weeks after that, I was up one night and I didn’t stop writing, and I literally wrote out the entire layout of the Playseum,” she recalls. “And I wrote, ‘Be with me, Mom.
But after talking during the past few days with a variety of participants and observers, I can find no consensus on exactly what the final result will be.
“I don’t think our Members would let us vote on it without a CBO score,” a leadership aide noted.
Gerry Connolly said.
“I continue to believe that there are Senate Republicans who are looking for an honest solution,” he said, adding he could not say the same for the House GOP.
“With deep disappointment and sadness about this situation, I hope that the Ethics Committee will take up this matter,” Pelosi said.
But the Speaker said his first concern was not overseas market reaction, but developing a plan that was in the best interest of the United States.