D.C. Voting Rights Backers Gear Up for Bill’s Big Week
</p> A compromise measure, the voting rights bill would grant Democratic-leaning D.C. a House vote while giving solidly Republican Utah an at-large seat.
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Environment Could Play Big Role in Farm Bill
</p> “The farm bill will be as much about the environment” as it will about agriculture, the Senator predicted in a meeting with CongressNow and Roll Call today.
Reid to Attack on Iraq
a bill.
Legislative Push to Boost Water Funding Ready to Shift to Senate
the bill to the floor.
Congress Is Always Reluctant to End Wars Unilaterally
</p> The principal focus was an amendment offered to the foreign military sales bill by Sens.
Ads Hit Gerlach, Kuhl on Union Vote
As House Democrats and their allies continue to lash potentially vulnerable Republicans on the Iraq War, they also are keeping the heat on House GOPers who opposed a workers’ rights bill that passed the
Veto Threat Level on the Rise
</p> In his tenure, Bush has vetoed just one bill — a measure passed last year to expand federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research.
Attorneys Bill Still Faces GOP Opposition
</p> “Sen. Reid intends to push for passage of this bill as quickly as possible,” said Jim Manley, Reid’s spokesman. </p> The bill was sponsored by Sens.
White House Plans to Amend Supplemental; Byrd Pauses to Await Details
</p> In turn, Senate Appropriations Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) has put his emergency supplemental draft on hold until he receives the administration’s proposed modifications, which effectively hits
Scientists Warn House Appropriators About NASA Budget
</p> Colladay said that cuts to NASA programs reverberate throughout the agency.
Iraq Oversight: Act on Principle, Not Latest Polls
</p> Shrouded in the cover of an emergency supplemental bill, this measure would set a timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq — regardless of the situation on the ground.
Hill’s Pedestrians Express Safety Concerns
</p> Residents also have begun looking at traffic calming on their own.
Tempest in a T-shirt
Bill Young (R-Fla.), kicked out of the House gallery during the State of the Union address in January 2006, the mini-fracas made headlines.
Stocks, Bonds and, So Far, Few Democrats
</p> And the help it needs is from Democrats.
McConnell Not Bullish on 2008
</p> “Could we get it back?” McConnell asked. “It would have to be a good day.”
Bipartisan Push to Exempt Manure From Superfund Faces Jurisdictional Hurdles
</p> The bill will have to move through at least three committees in the House and Senate where the chairmen actively oppose the plan.
Kennedys Face Off Over Mental Health Bills
The Senate bill, he said, “lets the insurers define” coverage, he added. </p> Rep.
House Oversight Panel OKs Four Government Transparency Bills
</p> On another bill, the Presidential Library Donation Reform Act (H.R. 1254), the committee voted to require disclosure of donations to presidential libraries.
House Resources Approves Heritage Area, Wild Horse Bill
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), is supported by the governors of all four states. </p> But Rep.