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</p> A senior aide to Kennedy said today, the lawmaker favors quick work on the bill because Democrats’ control both chambers and a leading opponent, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas),
</p> Meanwhile, Puerto Rico Senate President Kenneth McClintock met with Members across the Capitol complex this week to lobby for a bill, sponsored by Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Luis Fortuño (
</p> While the bill would authorize $237 million in capital grants to states to develop new rail service, it would require states to match funds for inter-city rail capital investments.
</p> The bill does present constitutional problems, as a recent Congressional Research Service report details.
</p> But Congressional watchdog groups have made the change a top priority, putting pressure on House Democrats to address it as they draft a bill overhauling lobbying laws. </p> Now, Rep.
</p> “It would be great to have Mike fighting for us in Congress instead of Vito Fossella,” Weiner told the gathering, according to the Staten Island Advance.
</p> But as we know, that deliberative process was tossed out the window repeatedly in the past few Congresses.
</p> “Looking back, we were a little too aggressive trying to get our customers where they wanted to go,” said Land, who served as assistant Transportation secretary under former President Bill Clinton
</p> Earlier this month, Rep.
</p> The campaign against the merger is likely to last for months.
</p> The bill — sponsored by Sen.
</p> Voting rights supporters maintain there is little precedent for the bill to begin with.
</p> Republicans also point to a 2001 letter that some House Democrats sent to Mexican officials as proof that supporters of the bill are “shockingly hypocritical.”
Similarly, families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks wrote Monday to McConnell and Reid urging them to avoid mixing the politically charged debate over Iraq with the 9/11 bill.
House Democrats will continue to spotlight rules requiring training levels and rest periods for military personnel in the coming weeks when the chamber turns to the supplemental spending bill to fund the
</p> Well, I thought, there goes our endorsement. Former Sen.
</p> Now-Sen.
</p> Last year Peterson and his new co-chairman, Rep.
</p> That bill, S.484, would require companies to take additional steps to ensure safety to get their drugs approved.