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</p> The measure, passed by voice vote, is included as an amendment in the $2.7 billion fiscal 2005 legislative branch appropriations bill approved by the full Appropriations panel.
</p> Even though there is little chance that the Senate will end up voting on the merits of the bill, the July procedural vote is viewed as a critical harbinger about what direction this issue will head
Bill Clinton is everywhere again.
</p> Under the bill Rohrabacher introduced earlier this year, the city would essentially become Maryland’s 9th district for the purpose of Congressional representation.
Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) “lack substantial merit.
</p> Party Planners.
Republicans are edging closer to naming a chairman of the committee that will draft the party’s platform at the nominating convention in New York, with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) emerging
</p> Majority Whip Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Deputy Minority Whip Rep.
</p> NRSC Chairman George Allen (Va.) is scheduled to campaign with DeMint in the state next Wednesday.
Bill Clinton’s book blitz might have helped Democrat John Kerry (Mass.) portray President Bush as a radical ideologue. Instead, it seems to have focused attention only on Clinton’s psyche.
</p> Five Republicans are seeking the seat including, Jeanne Lilig-Patterson, who has significant personal wealth. </p> The real fight in this race is between Metzl and Cleaver.
</p> Cain had already been running radio spots attacking Isakson on abortion rights and taxes. </p> Rep. Mac Collins is also battling for the GOP nomination in the July 20 primary.
</p> The letters to Frist and Hastert remind the two leaders that high-ranking Bush administration officials, including the president himself, repeatedly assured Congress during debate on the bill last
party would look bad if the bill goes down in flames.
</p> Hoyer didn’t take issue with the final outcome of the bill, in which 48 Democrats — mostly Southerners and moderates — sided with the GOP.
</p> Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who chairs the House Appropriations subcommittee on the legislative branch, has written a report to accompany Congress’ fiscal 2005 spending bill.
</p> In a touch of irony, Kerry was on the Senate floor in a rare Capitol Hill appearance casting the first of a series of votes on the Defense authorization bill at the same time Romney was calling on
</p> Even though the constitutional amendment is not expected to attract the 67 Senate votes needed for approval, Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Republican Conference Chairman Rick Santorum
</p> Santorum’s current legislative director, Wayne Palmer, is taking over for the departing Hershey.