Matheson, Vitter Resume Fight Against Automatic Raises
“I don’t think it’s right. Why should Members of Congress have a very opaque process put in place where the COLA happens without any vote?” Matheson asked.
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“I don’t think it’s right. Why should Members of Congress have a very opaque process put in place where the COLA happens without any vote?” Matheson asked.
“I know that we can be productive,” the Vermont Democrat said. “I worked with a Republican House chairman to enact the first Justice Department authorization in 25 years.
In the weeks after the November elections that left Democrats without control of the House and with a tighter majority in the Senate, Obama cut a deal with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.
“I hope the Senate will soon follow suit with a vote of its own,” he said. “The Democratic leadership in the Senate doesn’t want to vote on this bill. But I assure you, we will.”
“For me, it was time to work somewhere with more regular hours, and I just wanted to try something new,” Daly said, conceding that the 24-hour news cycle contributed to his decision
Of course, it wouldn’t be an anniversary celebration without a chance to explore JFK’s life and term in office.
He’s able to do his job very effectively but without a lot of fanfare. … He has very good contacts over in the House, both on the R and D side.”
I worked in the Senate for four years from 2005 to 2009, and hardly a week would go by without some type of security alert: a suspicious package in one building, a truck that was being searched or
It will be a subject discussed at the retreat,” the Minnesota Republican said. “There will be briefings, as I understand, available for spouses and so forth.”
Let them do that,” he said.
“There’s no elective office for me,” Kennedy said in an interview with Globe columnist Scot Lehigh that was posted Tuesday night.
“I think I’ll wonder that for the rest of my life,” he said.
But the left is depraved, empty, and without any political substance whatsoever,” he said.
“But the left is depraved, empty and without any political substance whatsoever.”
“I don’t know if this will finally trigger it,” he said of the bill’s chances of becoming law. “I’d like to think that something good can come from this.
“I am thrilled that the Whip is going to pull groups together that from time to time bump into each other politically,” CBC Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) said Friday.
I don’t think that’s the way we should spend limited law enforcement resources,” Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer, a former Capitol Police chief, said.
“Our form of government, like all human things, is imperfect and flawed; but one of its greatest virtues is its power to resolve questions of the greatest import without violence,” Minority Whip
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The looming showdown over the federal debt limit had Democratic leaders and the White House warning Thursday of catastrophe without an increase, while Republican leaders pushed for a substantial package