GOP Holds Third ‘Regain Our Majority’ Fundraiser
</p> Members benefiting from the event were Reps. Michele Bachmann (Minn.), Vito Fossella (N.Y.), Sam Graves (Mo.), Ric Keller (Fla.), Jean Schmidt (Ohio), Bill Sali (Idaho) and Tim Walberg (Mich.).
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</p> Members benefiting from the event were Reps. Michele Bachmann (Minn.), Vito Fossella (N.Y.), Sam Graves (Mo.), Ric Keller (Fla.), Jean Schmidt (Ohio), Bill Sali (Idaho) and Tim Walberg (Mich.).
</p> The Clinton campaign managed to polarize the contest racially — despite his heated denials, Bill Clinton did liken Obama to the Rev.
</p> “We could do all this pain with no gain,” Shimkus said. </p> Shimkus said he and Boucher have talked, but there isn’t yet a framework for a compromise bill.
</p> “The fact that both committees pushed a version of this bill shows how pressing an issue this is,” said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), a chief sponsor of a currency bill with Sen.
</p> According to aides to CHC lawmakers, members are seeking to get ahead of a series of hearings in the House on a border and immigration enforcement bill sponsored by freshman Rep.
Bill Young (R), who turns 78 this December, recently filed papers in Florida virtually guaranteeing his name on the November ballot.
</p> On the Senate floor, Durbin chided Republicans for delaying a vote on a bill that gives pension benefits, housing grants and other benefits to veterans.
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) aimed at branding him as a champion of working Americans while also promoting his universal health care bill is an early example of campaigns taking advantage of the loose controls governing
</p> Under Fenty’s plan, which would cut the rate by only 15 cents next year, Bourgault would save roughly $1,500 — an amount, he said, that “doesn’t even cover my electricity bill.”
</p> Most lobbyists and industry watchers said the results should come as no surprise.
</p> [IMGCAP(1)]“Mr. President, everyone should know that we have cooperated on this bill every step of the way. There was no reason to do a motion to proceed to this.
</p> House Democrats, who will craft the initial bill, still have to choose whether to include a timetable for withdrawal in the initial bill, even though they concede that they lack the votes to override
</p> Concurrently, Sen.
Jim Webb (D-Va.) in his effort to expand the GI Bill. </p> “You’ve heard me talk about independence … and here’s what I mean by that,” Begich said in his prepared remarks.
</p> At issue is a section of the lobbying reform bill aimed at forcing so-called stealth coalitions to name their financial backers.
</p> The insider’s account offered by Schlesinger, the deputy assistant managing editor of opinions at U.S.
First of two parts </p> Regardless of whether you think Rep.
</p> “If Walker or Shaner wins, voters have been living in a cave,” Campbell said.
</p> “A victory like Richard Pombo comes along [once] a generation or so,” Longabaugh said.
</p> “We have a very strong bill that gets the job done,” Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said of the legislation this month.