The End of Debt Limit Brinkmanship? (Video)
House Republican leaders knew from the start they were heading into this debt limit battle without a united army.
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House Republican leaders knew from the start they were heading into this debt limit battle without a united army.
Leader Eric Cantor and other senior Republicans had hinted over the past few weeks that they wanted to give their rank-and-file members a “sweetener” for raising the debt limit, as many in their flock said
House Republican leaders knew from the start they were heading into this debt limit battle without a united army.
When I mention to people outside the Beltway that Congress has cut its budget by 20 percent, the predominant response is, “I didn’t know that!”
After speaking at a Heritage Action for America policy conference Monday, Cruz said the debt limit should not be raised without controlling spending.
I thank Senators Pryor, [Jeanne] Shaheen, [Kay] Hagan,[Mark] Begich and others for their leadership on this issue,” Reid said as he opened the Senate floor Monday.
“I think we are still looking for the pieces to this puzzle,” Boehner told reporters at his weekly news conference Thursday.
But those officials said they weren’t able to do much more than talk in generalities about breaches and security procedures.
“I don’t think they want to get into a huge fight over the debt ceiling,” Rep. Phil Gingrey of Georgia, who is running for Senate, said of his leadership.
Tuition Assistance Grant program, or TAG, would be thrown into question on Capitol Hill if appropriators concluded the city could help low-income students defray the costs of higher education without their
“I think you’re going to see some changes here in the House over the next year,” he said.
“And what I respect about him is that I don’t think he wants to change who he is — that’s actually something to be lauded,” Labrador said.
“The idea of a global fund for Alzheimer’s disease would, I believe, almost exponentially move the mitigation and someday eradication of Alzheimer’s disease,” said Smith, who is co-chairman of the
“I have received the encouragement of members of the Committee and the Caucus to seek this position,” Eshoo said in a statement on Monday.
He emphatically said, “This would fail.” Krieger complained that each iteration of the design has made it worse.
He pressed petitions on National Mall tourists in an attempt to rally support for the No Taxation Without Representation Act.
“I do offer a cautionary note. … We’re going to see what happens in the experiments in Colorado and Washington,” Obama continued, noting the two states where certain amounts of marijuana have recently
“I think it’s real important we spell out we have an alternative to this terrible thing called Obamacare,” said Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.
Barton, who chaired and served as ranking Republican on the committee opposite Waxman, said the Democrat will be hard to replace.
“Day after the 2012 election, I said it’s time for Congress and the president to deal with this very important issue,” Boehner said at a morning news conference.