GOP Feels a Shift, Likes Dynamic on Sequester
“Of course I’m concerned,” Udall said.
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“Of course I’m concerned,” Udall said.
And where once she could feed her pastry fix by popping into any one of her many go-to bakeries, Fernandez soon discovered she’d either have to make her own or learn to go without.
“I have had daily meetings to try and get to a point where we can bring this forward,” Cantor said. “I . . . care very deeply about women and the abuse situation.
Bill Owens, D-N.Y., and Aaron Schock, R-Ill., but said it would do so without forming a formal investigative subcommittee.
They said that unless vacancies occurred during the one period they defined — ignoring how Congress defines its own recesses — they could not be filled by recess appointments.
He said Washington “has the dubious distinction of being number one in two areas: It is the capital of partisan gridlock, and now traffic gridlock.”
Budget day came without a fiscal 2014 budget proposal on Monday, but congressional Republicans didn’t let the occasion go by without a sharp attack against the White House on its priorities and its inability
“Ever since I was one of just two [House] Democrats to beat a Republican anywhere in the country in 2004, they’ve had that bull’s-eye on my back,” he said.
The committee will be very busy, but he’s not afraid of a challenge,” the aide said.
“Oh, I put something down on the floor,” Reynolds said vaguely of where he might have slept the night before the inauguration. Then he laughed. “Yeah, it is what it is.”
The idea is to build public support from the ground up, said Gerard, a tactic he cottoned to after talking to some of President Barack Obama’s organizers following the 2008 election.
Without Brown, the Republican bench in Massachusetts is thin, with no obvious candidate for a statewide bid.
“I look forward to the good old days when we had major legislation go through committees,” Sen. Charles E. Schumer said.
“I think it’s important to remind everybody that, what I’ve said previously, I am not a king, I am head of the executive branch of government,” Obama said in an interview with Univision.
The Florida lawmaker has said he’ll pull his support from any bill if that occurs, and Republicans say comprehensive policy changes will fail to garner meaningful GOP support without Rubio’s backing.
“John has earned the respect of leaders around the world and the confidence of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate,” Obama said, “and I am confident he will make an extraordinary secretary of
Without such an agreement, any senator may offer surprise attack amendments that receive up-or-down votes essentially without debate, as long as the amendments are drafted to comply with the peculiarities
“More than ever, foreign policy is economic policy,” he said in his opening remarks.
“I would imagine every yoga studio out there wants a Mysore program because they see how it is growing and everyone wants a piece of that pie,” Steiner said.
“They said I was the one who singularly stopped that from going forward,” said Lungren, who was chairman of the House Administration Committee, the panel of jurisdiction.