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↵↵As a recent college graduate in 1995, he hoisted the flag that flies over the Senate — which was easier said than done when the wind was blowing.
"Unfortunately, rather than dramatically reform ICE, the administration has decided to shut down FEMA, shut down the TSA and shut down the Coast Guard," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said
"I'm gonna say I hope not, but I think that could happen," Capito said, pointing to a dispute over a White House-backed change in how National Institutes of Health grants are distributed, among other issues
Elise Stefanik ended her gubernatorial campaign last month and said she wouldn't run for reelection this year.
As we start to mark up this year's farm bill, I think this is a priority issue," Nunn said.
"I don't know about the other three, but we raised a lot of questions about Energy and Water, since we've actually passed that one across the [House] floor," he said.
↵↵"We were talking about what the contours of the package might be," Cole said Thursday night. "We haven't come to an agreement. I still think the next best step is to get a small package."
↵↵"I think it's vitally important, as I mention, that we have certainty, clarity and consumer protection in these markets.
↵↵"I know some of my colleagues have objections on principle of combining these, but I really don't," said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.↵↵Sen.
↵↵"This is no way to run a country," Trump said in signing the bill ending a 43-day partial shutdown. "I hope we can all agree the government should never be shut down again."
↵↵Johnson said he had not been aware that the Senate provision was slipped into the spending package.↵↵"I found out about it last night," he told reporters. "I was surprised.
↵↵"This was the only deal on the table," Shaheen said.
↵↵"I have long said that to earn my vote, we need to be on a path toward fixing Republicans' health care mess and to protect the federal workforce," Kaine said in a statement.
↵↵"There's no way our conference is going to vote on what Chuck proposed," said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. "I don't see anything changing, if at all, for a while."↵↵Even before the conference, Sen.
A bipartisan deal to end the shutdown is likely to require some Democrats to agree to reopen government without an extension of the health subsidies that has been their top demand.
When the government reopens, the nonpartisan agency is likely to have its hands full reviewing the actions of an administration that's taken more liberties with Congress' Article I power of the purse than
I’ll say it," Luján said at a news conference in describing the administration’s reversal. "I come from a small farm.
But as Trump prepares to leave for Asia late Friday night, the shutdown is set to roll on without a solution in sight.
without monthly benefits.
The legal argument outlined by the Office of Management and Budget’s Mark Paoletta is that furloughed workers should be treated differently from "excepted" staff working without pay in a shutdown under