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Still, this measure would have kept the federal government running until later in the year, and before the trigger of automatic, across-the-board cuts that will come in January without new legislation
When Reid asked Carter how he was doing, he said he was going to be fine, and then said: “The only thing I do every day is to make sure you and everyone who works up here is safe.”
Reid said in the letter that he viewed the conference as a good venue for broader debates on discretionary spending.
A “troll,” or patent assertion entity, purchases patents for the express purpose of filing patent infringement lawsuits against other companies to get licensing fees, without actually making any
Without a new farm bill authorization to keep current policies in place, several agricultural programs expired at the end of Monday.
The bill would give the city authority to spend its own funds without congressional approval until Dec. 15, while leaving previously approved social policy riders, such as limits on funding for abortion
I understand the resentment on my side to what is being done here, but carry out your resentment without putting us in a position of a thing.”
“I walked the few yards to the escalator, then rode down to the overlit brilliance of the subway platform. “The Senate subway looks like a Disneyland ride.
He made the motion, which cannot be filibustered, without any debate. The amendments were on a House-passed bill to keep the government funded past Tuesday.
But they haven’t even had a chance to vote on it. … I’m looking in the Constitution and I see nowhere where the speaker of the House has the power to not allow everyone to vote.
Biden Jr., which many Democrats felt gave away the store on taxes without reaching a long-term deal on spending. Not this time, they say with a united voice.
“The president said he’d sign your level,” Hoyer said. “Your level. You’ve won. But you can’t take ‘yes’ for an answer.”
“Talk about the unfairness,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo., emerging from a closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting on Saturday evening.
And even if they haven’t succeeded in getting the president to agree to repeal his health care law, “I think it’s sinking in with the American people,” Duffy said of the party’s message.
As I have said repeatedly, the Senate will reject any Republican attempt to force changes to the Affordable Care Act through a mandatory government funding bill or the debt ceiling.
“The president said he’d sign your level,” Hoyer said. “Your level. You’ve won. But you can’t take ‘yes’ for an answer.”
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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