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</p> Language in the bill perhaps most dramatically affects the Capitol Police, but the force’s funding accounts only for $219 million of the $3.4 billion going to Congress and its support agencies.
</p> “Today really marks a pivot point … for the Republican leadership … as we officially, in my mind, we have completed the 107th Congress … and now entered the 108th,” Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn
</p> Senate Democrats have re-introduced a bill to simply add a prescription drug benefit to traditional Medicare.
The fiscal 2003 omnibus appropriations bill approved last week contained $1.5 billion in election reform funding.
Denying rumors that he allowed the Presidents Day recess to proceed because Members were too worried to remain in Washington, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said threats of a terrorist attack
</p> Last week, the White House appeared to have scored a coup by convincing Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) to back off earlier
Bill McCollum (R) are all but in the race for Graham’s seat, assuming he runs for president.
</p> Most recent successful national politicians — from Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton and Bush — had two things in common: likability and a down-to-earth quality that made them appear
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</p> Bob Stevenson, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), denied with a laugh that there was any </p> political motivation to the menu choice.
</p> The Senate is expected to clear the bill before adjourning for the scheduled Presidents Day recess.
</p> The bill, almost identical to one passed by the House last year 229-197, was approved 230-192. Eleven Democrats voted for the measure, while two GOP Members cast votes against the bill.
Backing down from a threat he issued earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said Thursday the chamber would have its full Presidents Day recess next week.
</p> Moderates feel they already fought last year for less stringent provisions in the welfare bill likely to pass today.
</p> The other GOP committee members are: Reps.
President Bill Clinton carried the state by more than 300,000 votes (better than 5 points) in 1996, and he lost it four years earlier by just 100,000 votes (40.9 percent to 39 percent).
</p> On Friday, Reps.
</p> Chief Terrance Gainer first proposed expanding that program while interviewing for his current post with the Police Board, which includes House Sergeant-at-Arms Bill Livingood, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms
</p> Two Republicans all but in the race are Rep. Mark Foley (Fla.) and former Rep. Bill McCollum (Fla.), who was defeated in a 2000 Senate bid.