Senators Cool to Approps Shuffle
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Senate Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) plan to ask House GOP leaders to revisit and more fully negotiate a House-proposed reorganization of
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Senate Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) plan to ask House GOP leaders to revisit and more fully negotiate a House-proposed reorganization of
</p> Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.). </p> But in a stunning sequence of events, Campbell hastily dropped out of the race a few days later, prompting first Rep.
Max Baucus (Mont.), Kent Conrad (N.D.), Byron Dorgan (N.D.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Bill Nelson (Fla.) and Mark Pryor (Ark.) — met Monday in Conrad’s office to mull over the different
</p> Let me emphasize that these goals are not mutually exclusive.
</p> Take, for example, the mammoth highway authorization bill.
</p> “I see no justification for the taxpayers to pay for the political parties to party,” said Bartlett, who has a bill to abolish public financing of the Democratic and Republican conventions every
</p> Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R) is vacating the seat in 2006 in keeping with a two-term-limit pledge. He is widely expected to run for president in 2008. </p> Rep.
years ago to create a subcommittee on Homeland Security without consulting the Senate, Cochran said he was pleased that House leaders have sought his input, as well as that of Senate Majority Leader Bill
Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to slide into the Majority Leader’s office. </p> Despite pressure from some corners, Lott refused to resign and quietly fade away.
</p> “If anyone other than Tom Davis was the sponsor I’d probably give it no chance whatsoever, but I would never count Tom Davis out on anything,” Bishop said, acknowledging the bill faces long odds.
</p> In that campaign, Nethercutt was criticized for his involvement in a bill to create a new wilderness area near Seattle.
</p> If the past decade is a guide, however, Stearns’ effort will likely be met with quiet resistance, if not hostility. </p> “Does the phrase ‘a cold-day in hell’ ring a bell?”
</p> “Democrats should keep in mind that Bill Clinton won a dozen red states in 1992 and 1996 with essentially the same [policy] positions as John Kerry.
Slowly returning to normal activity with as clean a bill of health as possible, Luzzatto has fully reassumed control of managing Clinton’s Senate office.
Another talked-about 2008 presidential contender, Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), lags far behind Lautenberg with a low 3.3 average of hotness.
He does say, however, that the flood of entreaties grew so intense last year that he took former President Bill Clinton’s advice and hired agents to vet them.
</p> One read, “Ohioans for Brownback”; the other, “Values Voters for Brownback ’08.”</p> That’s Kansas Republican Sen.
</p> “Though Mr.
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</p> In fact, many of the proposals in the bill are designed to specifically repudiate the policies pursued by the Bush administration.