Education: Traveling on Whose Dime?
Because the nonprofits and the advocacy groups are separate and distinct on paper, lawmakers were able to accept the trip invitations without running afoul of Congressional ethics rules.
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Because the nonprofits and the advocacy groups are separate and distinct on paper, lawmakers were able to accept the trip invitations without running afoul of Congressional ethics rules.
“Without going into all the details, generally, yes, it is, Senator,” Cole said.
Congressional Democrats, on the other hand, are threading the needle between questioning whether laws were violated without making the specific accusations against the White House.
Without a Democratic plan to confuse the issue, the attacks against Bush’s plan had more resonance, Pelosi said.
“I haven’t studied anything in detail, and I don’t want to get anybody upset,” Macfarlane said. “But we have a huge country, and there are many locations.
Similar to football, players regularly tackle the opposition, but without the luxury of shoulder pads or helmets. Bill Huff takes the brunt of the team’s biggest hits.
“I hope to lord Congress decides to get serious about it and stop playing — my word — playing games” and taking it out of health care, Biden said. “This should not be that hard.”
Elk said Muzin was trying to take hold of his arm and pull him out of the room.
“It shows that lawmakers can be made to be much more sympathetic on an issue when they’re receiving campaign donations,” said Melanie Sloan, CREW’s president.
That was how Greenspan used to go on record without creating a political headache for himself or for the Fed because, once uttered, the phrase meant different things to different people Just
Republicans in Wisconsin “have oiled their machine without [GOP presidential nominee] Mitt Romney having spent a dollar on it,” said Joshua Spivak, a senior fellow at Wagner College’s Hugh L.
,” Obama said.
“I have ended my write-in campaign in Michigan’s 11th Congressional District,” McCotter said in a statement posted on his website.
I don’t see any purpose in doing that.”
“I’d be fired — immediately and with cause — if I said stuff like this,” said Barry Caro, Becker’s spokesman. “Which begs the question: Why is Jay Townsend still Nan Hayworth’s spokesman?”
cleverly named Fix Congress Now Caucus in May, with an agenda that includes “reforming the benefits of Congress, addressing the inefficient and unaccountable budgeting process that leaves the country without
“Two years ago, I set a goal of doubling American exports over five years.
The president, it seems, is granted the right to send legislation back to the Hill without his approval, and if quite substantial majorities do not reprise the initial decision to approve, said legislation
“I was in the process of purchasing a condominium in Arlington, [Va.],” she said in the film. “[And] I made the purchase contingent of my survival.”
The Justice Department announced earlier this month that two government prosecutors who handled the Stevens case will be suspended without pay, though they may appeal the decision.