NRCC Hopes to Turn Tables on Ethics
</p> Taxpayers for Common Sense, a government watchdog group, said the 2006 Defense spending bill contained Murtha earmarks worth more than $95 million for clients of The PMA Group, which employs Paul
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Democrats Swept State Offices in 2006
</p> “His name will be circulating among primary voters because he spearheaded the legislation,” Parry said. </p> In the state House, Republican state Rep.
For Hill GOP, Rove Has Mixed Legacy
Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). </p> Asked whether Rove still holds the same stature among Republicans that he once enjoyed, Lott, now the Minority Whip, said in a brief interview last week: “Certainly not.
FDA Too Close to Drug Companies It Regulates
</p> Reformers looked to Congress this year and were left disappointed by the broad-based Senate FDA bill passed in May that failed to specifically strengthen post-market review by the agency.
Risks, Benefits Need Continual Analysis
</p> We have spent the past two years developing a bill that takes this approach to drug safety and moves the FDA drug safety evaluation process into the 21st century.
Greater Access to Treatment Needed
And state legislators and public health officials throughout the country called on us to forcefully pass a strong bill to end insurance discrimination.
Reid Plots to Block Conservatives
</p> To use the tactic, Reid will have to bring a new bill to the floor — likely the existing bill with the new package of border spending measures — and then offer the first amendment to the measure.
McConnell’s Balancing Act
</p> “When we were in the minority, if there were only four or five people who objected to going to a bill, Sen.
House to Get New Culinary Experience?
</p> The bill assigns House Chief Administrative Officer Dan Beard to study ways to increase the availability of free-trade-certified coffee on Capitol Hill, while also looking at how culinary school
Steamed About Energy
Reid’s bill addresses is geothermal energy and production, and I want it to include geothermal heat pumps,” he said. </p> He said Sens.
Ted’s New Gig
</p> Child Care Concerns.
Earmarking Pigs in Conference Poke Was Not the Way to Go
Instead of waiting for another bill, as the Senate did, House Democrats pushed through an earmark transparency rule on the opening day of this Congress.
Earmark Truce to Delay Spending Bills
</p> The deal also includes a wrinkle on the Energy and water bill, which will come to the floor without earmarks.
Empty Promises
</p> As the Members repeatedly referred to the letters and gestured toward the boxes allegedly containing them as evidence of the support for the immigration bill that is struggling in the Senate, a crack
GAO Report Criticizes Plan for LOC’s ‘Talking Books’
</p> While marking up the fiscal 2008 legislative branch spending bill on Tuesday, House appropriators cited the GAO report as a key reason the program’s transition effort was not funded at requested
WWII Memorial Still Seeking a Home
</p> In the bill, there is a measure supporting its placement there that already has passed through the House and a markup in the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Lawmakers Look for Cover Downtown
To foot the bill, Democrats are eyeing a tobacco tax and cuts to Medicare Advantage, another popular health insurance program — both moves that could anger members of their own party from rural and minority-heavy
The Grassley Is Greener
</p> “Iowa’s always been a state where a low-budget person might be able to become president just because he starts out well in Iowa,” he said. </p> More Endorsements. Rep.
Democrats Feel Growing Pains
</p> While Democratic leaders have instructed Members to vote against some of those measures — in particular, motions that effectively kill a bill — the majority has not issued a blanket directive to
Red Carpet
</p> Former Rep.