GOP Lawmakers Opening Door to Concessions
“I think there’s going to be a lot of jockeying between now and the end of the period whenever it is,” Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss said.
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“I think there’s going to be a lot of jockeying between now and the end of the period whenever it is,” Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss said.
“It is unacceptable that many Americans had to wait in line for five, six or seven hours to cast their ballots,” Boxer said in a release.
Republican aides had earlier Wednesday pointed to Obama’s statement last year that $1.2 trillion could be raised on the wealthy without raising tax rates.
There are ways to limit deductions, close loopholes and have the same people pay more of their money to the federal government without raising tax rates, which we believe will harm our economy,” he said
Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she doesn’t know Lew well enough to have a position on confirmation. “From what little I do know, he is well-regarded,” she said.
No matter how its members feel about marijuana use, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers wants to ensure that states can move forward with their marijuana laws without federal interference and has introduced
around welfare — Wall Street reform and — and Dodd-Frank,” Obama said.
But the rate would have risen even higher without the deal. That’s the kind of thinking behind Rep.
Some of the Republicans who voted “aye” on the bill said as much.
“I, at this point, am not going to sign the discharge petition, but I said ‘at this point.’ I don’t know what next week will bring,” Jones told reporters.
In a Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday, 53 percent of respondents said they would blame Republicans if the fiscal cliff deadline passes without action, while 27 percent said
“I think it’s hard to answer to the men and women in the military … with this kind of behavior, but I will leave that up to the senator from Kentucky to do so.”
Steve King of Iowa, who is one of the chamber’s most conservative members on immigration and who ran, without success, for the subcommittee chairmanship two years ago.
“We don’t want to blindside him,” union President Jim Konczos said, emphasizing that any additional measure taken by the labor committee would follow a presentation of the findings to Dine and a
staffer Jessica Rosenworcel has been described as shy, but the recently confirmed Federal Communications Commission member sounded the alarm after superstorm Sandy left huge swaths of the East Coast without
without cutting off some avenues for filibusters in January.
That’s going to be very hard for Republicans, and we understand that, but there’s no way through this without that,” Geithner told “Fox News Sunday.”
He told local WPTV he hasn’t made a decision yet: “That’s between my wife and I and God as far as where we’re going to go.”
“If it’s just, ‘Get rid of it,’ without any future oversight, I get a little nervous about that,” Begich said of reconfiguring the law guiding debt limit votes.
“It’s our profession, and I want to make sure people understand exactly what we’re doing on a day-to-day basis,” Ward said.