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“In our minds, it would be a mistake to enact legislation that has the appearance of reform without providing the reality. It would just be a giant effort to mislead the public.”
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“In our minds, it would be a mistake to enact legislation that has the appearance of reform without providing the reality. It would just be a giant effort to mislead the public.”
He looked them in the eyes, told them what a great Member of Congress I was,” Massa said.
And I think that’s — the latter debate’s the one that they care about a little bit more.”
As President Kennedy said in the midst of that scrap, “McCulloch can deliver 60 Republicans. Without him, it can’t be done.
“I say this as a former House Member, any time you ask the House to swallow a Senate-passed bill, especially on something this broad, it’s a hard thing to ask anybody to do, and we are essentially
In a conference call with reporters, Massa said he was hospitalized in December with a recurrence of cancer, and that doctors have told him he would no longer be able to function at full speed all
Everything there is to say about health care has been said and just about everyone has said it.
“I think we’ve allowed the Republicans to get away with too much obstruction for too long without using our prerogatives,” said Sen.
And my doctors have made it clear to me that I can no longer do that,” Massa said.
It got its first hearing Wednesday before the House Education and Labor Committee but without any bill to work on. The will seems to exist for bipartisan action.
“We’re not having four votes,” Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday following a weekly Conference luncheon in which Democrats rejected the GOP offer.
It’s a process that kind of ties the committee’s hands in terms of flexibility and speed with which it can approach a matter,” he said.
“The first thing I wanted people to know was that I was there to be serious, that I would keep my head down and do my work,” Franken said in his first extended national interview since he was seated
“I hope Congressional Republicans will take the work as sincerely and seriously as the [commission’s] chairmen take it, that they will come to the table without preconditions, ready to contribute
Q: I am an Ohio voter with a question regarding the qualifications to be a Member of Congress. I read that James Traficant is planning to run for the House of Representatives this year.
“All I ever tried to do was to understand the soldiers as human beings who make good and bad decisions, rather than good and bad people,” Frederick said in an interview.
“As a practical matter, it’s going to force some type of examination of what you have to do to supervise your staff, and I think that’s going to create some problems,” Brand said.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if you had 25 to 30 Democrats who switched,” one aide said.
“I don’t think you will ever have an opportunity to have the cadre of senior people … or the business people that we are going to have here. … So rather than you spending the next six months trying to
“Of course, we can have a vote on it, and, of course, it can be defeated, and then, of course, we can pass the bill without the money.