Marshall Airs Ad on Bailout Vote
After taking flak back home all week for voting Monday in favor of the controversial economic bailout bill, Rep.
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After taking flak back home all week for voting Monday in favor of the controversial economic bailout bill, Rep.
Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) and Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) say they will now vote for the reworked version of the bailout bill.
</p> The Senate passed a handful of noncontroversial bills by unanimous consent Thursday. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) also sought to swiftly bring up and then pass a bill authored by the late Rep.
President Bush on Thursday sought to highlight the effect of the credit crisis on average businesses, part of an effort by the White House to rebrand the $700 billion financial system bailout bill as a
</p> House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) appeared confident Republicans will pick up the votes needed to pass the bill.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Thursday that hes confident that Democrats wont lose any votes on the bailout bill, adding that he hoped for significantly more Republican votes.
</p> [IMGCAP(1)]Just before the Senate was slated to vote on the bill Wednesday night, Sen.
</p> Although the prospect of a lame duck has not been welcomed by Senators and aides alike, Bingaman spokesman Bill Wicker said, Theres a lot of very good legislation in this land package that matters
</p> The White House is waging an all-hands-on-deck lobbying effort for the bill with Bush heavily involved, lodging about three-dozen calls to lawmakers Wednesday and Thursday.
Few speeches given on the House floor match the power of the one delivered by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during Mondays debate on the bailout bill.
</p> According to the defense motion, the Justice Department told Stevens attorneys in September that Bill Allen, chief executive officer of oil services company VECO, said he had not billed Stevens
witness Bill Allen suggested that if he had sent bills to Stevens for the renovations of his home, Stevens would have paid them.
</p> Sen.
</p> The government admitted Thursday morning that it had erred in failing to turn over to Stevens defense team the original FBI notes from interviews with Bill Allen, the VECO oil services company head
</p> In advocating for the $700 billion economic recovery bill passed by the Senate on Wednesday night, Reid said that an unnamed Democrat had informed his caucus about the impending failure of a national
</p> The judge in the criminal trial of Sen.
of an interview in which star prosecution witness Bill Allen suggested that if he had sent bills to Stevens for the renovations of his home, Stevens would have paid them.
</p> Of course, when he was pushing the McCain-Feingold bill through Congress and into law, he probably didnt expect it to play out like this.
</p> Reid, speaking on the Senate floor, indicated there will be several votes in the evening on the Amtrak bill, the India nuclear agreement and then the bailout bill.
The House will take up the rule for the $700 billion bailout bill Friday morning and then vote on the bill that afternoon, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Wednesday.