Missouri: Pressure Builds for Todd Akin to Step Aside
What I said was ill-conceived.” “I’d like to apologize to those that I’ve hurt,” Akin continued, in reference to his assertion to a St.
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What I said was ill-conceived.” “I’d like to apologize to those that I’ve hurt,” Akin continued, in reference to his assertion to a St.
Hoekstra replied, “I think that would be a positive thing,” when questioned about the repealing the 17th amendment after a Jan. 28 debate at University of Michigan-Dearborn.
How would the Senate look without Senators elected by voters?
“That is not a Democratic ad; that is a Priorities USA super PAC ad,” she said. “I have no idea the political affiliation.”
But, he said, “we’ve still got too many folks out there looking for work. … We knew when I started in this job that this was going to take some time.”
“Am I satisfied with the number of drops? The answer is emphatically ‘no’. I would like to drop more.
“I believe it’s going to be accommodated, but I haven’t had enough of a discussion to answer that for sure,” Grassley said. “I believe it can be accommodated without a lot of turmoil.”
“I think we have a very well-established bipartisan Thurmond/Leahy Rule that affects circuit court judges, and I support that,” Alexander said.
We just did not have enough support here in our own party,” DeMint said.
“I know that I’ve put my party in a somewhat precarious position, and I apologize for that, in that I was nominated in the primary,” LaTourette said Tuesday during a news conference in Ohio, where
“What was clear was that we can’t send our Members home in the middle of a drought without any action,” one House GOP leadership aide said before the session.
starting today, in accordance with the law, new health care plans will have to start offering preventive services — including contraception and HIV screening and counseling for sexually active women — without
I hope that we can face the challenges ahead in the same spirit of compromise.” At a press availability this afternoon, Reid added that the continuing resolution would be “free of riders.”
Current funding runs out at the end of the government’s fiscal year Sept. 30, and without new appropriations or a stopgap continuing resolution, the government would shut down.
I voted for him and will continue to vote for him,” Bishop J. Drew Sheard said. “I didn’t tell you what to do. I just told you what I’m going to do.”
Senators asked the Postal Service to delay shuttering post offices until the Senate passed Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) overhaul bill, which the chamber
The House is ready and willing to begin those discussions, and I would urge Senate Democrats to come to the table so this critical legislation can be sent to the president for his signature as soon as
I will be a willing partner to any Democrat, including the president, to fix this,” said Sen.
So the court said states could choose to opt out of the expansion without risking all their Medicaid funds.
“It’s a way to help more within a legal framework,” said a Washington-based Republican fundraiser who is not affiliated with the Romney campaign.