Obama Gains Traction With Student Loan Offensive
“I don’t think anybody believes that the interest rate ought to be allowed to rise.
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“I don’t think anybody believes that the interest rate ought to be allowed to rise.
“I don’t want to get into a situation where I’m spending all my money on legal matters to make sure I’m following all the rules,” he said. “That would just kill this industry.”
Louie Gohmert went on without him.
Chamber Watch, a labor-backed watchdog group, said in an email.
Boxed in by their Senate colleagues on one side and House conservatives on the other, House Republican leaders are starting the slow march toward the Budget Control Act without explicitly walking away
“I don’t think we ever explicitly had a stated goal for a legislative response,” he said. “The beautiful thing was a lot of people took it upon themselves to contact their lawmakers.”
“The technology we have now, compared to when I first started, is just phenomenal,” he said.
“I thought the Republicans were fair, yes,” Rep. Elijah Cummings, ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said after a long pause.
“Any time that I can partner with my government to improve my farm, improve my product and improve my environmental footprint, I think that makes everybody a winner,” she said.
We’re going to need a lot more money than $200 million,” Iacono said, adding that she believes Members of Congress are on board. “It’s not just flipping a switch. We have to build,” she said.
The report, “Rising Above the Gathering Storm,” carried a blunt warning that the nation’s advantages in competitiveness were at risk of falling behind other nations without a greater emphasis on improving
“I don’t often get involved in Democratic primaries, but with so much on the line for our state and our nation, I am making an exception,” Gregoire said, before asking for financial contributions
“I said that this institution is as great as it’s ever been. That’s what I said. And people are just kind of like, ‘What? What are you talking about?
“Without a Congress that’s willing to pass [the Employment Non-Discrimination Act], I wish the president was a little more aggressive to pursue nondiscrimination,” openly gay Rep.
“No, I think the timing there would be all wrong,” he said about whether there would be votes on the plan soon.
“The president’s decision to circumvent the American people by installing his appointees at a powerful federal agency, when the Senate was not in recess, and without obtaining the advice and consent
One insightful column in the Washington Post business section said that maybe the best outcome from the GSA brouhaha would be that more organizations would stop doing these conferences, which are
Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) plans to introduce legislation that would sever the link between the District’s budget and the Congressional appropriations process, a senior Senate Democratic aide confirmed to
“Domestic and sexual violence knows no political party,” Leahy said March 22.
“I think that some of the proposals are going to be nonstarters,” the Maryland Democrat said.