Senate Leaders Press Effort at Eleventh-Hour Tax Compromise
“This is real,” not just for show, the source said. GOP aides said they don’t expect to have more to say until after lawmakers are briefed Sunday afternoon.
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“This is real,” not just for show, the source said. GOP aides said they don’t expect to have more to say until after lawmakers are briefed Sunday afternoon.
that I can make to my conference and the majority leader can make to his conference.”
Sunday, without specifying what might be voted on.
And as I, Eric, Kevin and Cathy said yesterday in a joint statement: If the Senate will not approve these bills and send them to the president to be signed into law in their current form, they must be
“I think Thomas Massie will be one of the best folks we have up there,” said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who helped Massie, 41, during his bitterly fought primary.
“Because we didn’t get this done, I will see you next week,” he said.
“Without earmarks, it’s not nearly the power that the committee had before,” Sen. John McCain said.
“It does appear that the Senate may be a place where something now needs to take place, and I think that’s maybe a given, so we’ll see what happens,” said Sen.
“I thought, and I think events have proved, that Mike Pence would have been a better speaker,” he said. That’s not to say Boehner does not face any fallout.
“Nevada was a great place to get started, but it was not where I wanted to stay long term or where I saw myself long term,” said Binkholder, who in November was promoted to legislative director for
Their Plan B is to slow-walk us over the fiscal cliff,” the Ohio Republican said.
Biden Jr., to “come up with a set of concrete proposals no later than January, proposals that I then intend to push without delay.”
But he added, “I don’t know how anybody could possibly be in a position to analyze that yet without beginning a top-to-bottom review of the department itself.”
The group discussed “plan C, D, E, F, G and I think there was a Plan H,” Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., joked.
Majority Leader Reid, D-Nev., on Wednesday night offered a substitute bill and then filed cloture and used procedural steps to block any further amendments without his consent.
“I think what you’re going to see us have to do, which I think is important and I think it’s about time, is to get granular and community-based in our outreach, and I think it means over a long period
When the Senate passed its fiscal 2013 defense authorization measure earlier this month without the language, advocates sounded the alarm regarding the possibility of another defeat.
On guns, Carney said the president would have more to say in the “coming weeks.” “I don’t have a specific agenda to announce to you today,” Carney said.
“I don’t have a specific agenda to announce to you today,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.
“I think it’ll be a faux revolt,” a Republican lobbyist said. “They’ll pretend like they’re upset. But they all know he had to do it. Some of them will truly be upset.