Cruz, Lee Lobbying House GOP, but to What End?
Boehner, R-Ohio, and House leadership to pass a short-term stopgap spending bill without serious concessions from Democrats on the 2010 health care law.
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Boehner, R-Ohio, and House leadership to pass a short-term stopgap spending bill without serious concessions from Democrats on the 2010 health care law.
“There’s no way I could not vote for it,” Manchin said at a breakfast sponsored by Bloomberg News. “It’s very reasonable and sensible.”
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“I rather doubt that Congress would take punitive actions against the District of Columbia for keeping their personnel on.”
“I hear everyday people’s concerns about being priced out of the city,” Harriet Tregoning, director of the city’s Office of Planning, said during a public meeting on the draft recommendation Wednesday
“I think that it is unlikely that we’re going to see serious legislative activity in this calendar year,” Clinton said.
Gray’s one-sentence letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell read: “I am writing to inform you that I have determined that all operations of the government of the
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said his fellow Republicans should vote against to deny Reid the chance to use a simple majority vote to amend the measure to eliminate the House language defunding Obamacare.
“I can’t see voting against that bill, which is what we’ve been asking for — for the last six months,” Cornyn said.
I hope we don’t get there, but it looks as though we are headed in that direction,” said Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee.
As a result, some Mississippi Republicans dread a delegation without Cochran’s clout — while others want him to get out so they can move up.
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“The best way for the House to avoid a shutdown will be to pass the bill we send back,” one Senate Democratic aide said. A House GOP aide said a one-week CR is unlikely at this point.
Ted Cruz took a brief break from many hours of speaking against Obamacare to wish goodnight to his young daughters — without ceding control of the Senate floor.
Ted Cruz kicked off what’s already become a lengthy floor speech on Tuesday afternoon without any hope of seriously delaying the Senate’s proceedings.
“This case is not about base limits; they make sense,” said McCutcheon, whose challenge in McCutcheon v.
“I think we’ll take up the House bill because it’s a good bill. I can’t imagine filibustering the bill that I like from the House. There will be a vote to take out the defunding of Obamacare.
I still remember going to post-election events during the 1980s and watching Al From, then president of the DLC, blame his party’s presidential defeats on liberals and organized labor, only to have
“I have said it before, but it seems to bear repeating: The Senate will not pass any bill that defunds or delays Obamacare,” Reid said last week.
Without those funds, Norton said basic municipal services would shut down and the District could be forced to default on its financial agreements. Rep.