Fears Grow as Obama Hits Trail
“I agree with Mitt Romney, who recently said he’s proud of what he accomplished on health care in Massachusetts and supports giving states the power to determine their own health care solutions.
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“I agree with Mitt Romney, who recently said he’s proud of what he accomplished on health care in Massachusetts and supports giving states the power to determine their own health care solutions.
As I have said repeatedly, I want to see all three agreements considered by July 1.” Likewise, Trade Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (Texas) also questioned Obama’s commitment to free trade.
A meeting with Congressional leaders and Vice President Joseph Biden on Thursday ended without a breakthrough, with the two sides about $50 billion apart.
I am trying to sell the idea that local communities can fairly compete for money and do the kinds of things they were doing under earmarks.”
On Dec. 21, Attorney General Eric Holder said on “Good Morning America” that 126 individuals have been indicted on terrorism-related charges in the past two years, including 50 U.S. citizens.
“I think those, sitting here as a state party chairman, I know how important those tools are to me and making sure my activists and financial supporters have what they need.
Unfortunately, the president failed to adequately meet the challenge with his response: What the commission proposed, he said, “still provides the framework for a conversation.
“Just getting agreement here” is an encouraging sign, Mica said, noting that “this is the first major piece of legislation [passed] without controversy. … This gives us a little bit of time.”
“I think it is an indication that there’s an abdication of responsibility,” Majority Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) said.
That said, the fight in Wisconsin is, at least in one important way, great news for Democrats and organized labor.
“I told him that I appreciated everything he said to me, that naturally it would be rolling around in my head, but I felt that Jane really had a leg up here.”
In addition, it “should be bipartisan, it should be free of any party’s social or political agenda, and it should be reached without delay,” he said.
“It’s certainly not the committee’s fault, it wasn’t their choice to move, but I’ll just say it, I think the space is terrible,” the California Democrat said during a House Administration Committee
“Without question, there will be consequences,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List, told Roll Call when asked about the seven Republicans.
“I’ve said before, I don’t believe that any single party has a monopoly on good ideas,” he added. “And I will go to bat for whatever works, no matter who or where it comes from.”
Weaver said Huntsman’s supporters are working on a purely voluntary basis, without any direction or encouragement from the ambassador, with the goal of encouraging people within their “areas of influence
Thousands of Congressional staffers will likely be asking one key question this week: “Am I essential?”
“We’re not thrilled about a third-party run,” Julianne Thompson said. “But Bellavia seems determined to run a third-party line, with or without tea party support.”
House Republican leaders pushed back aggressively Tuesday against the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to introduce a stopgap funding measure next week without budget cuts, but they
On Jan. 27, just after the Board of Election Commissioners began printing ballots without Emanuel’s name, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned an appeals court ruling that he didn’t meet the requirement