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Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) filibuster of an unemployment bill.
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Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) filibuster of an unemployment bill.
</p> The bill plows that $87 billion into things that Republicans typically say they support — like deficit reduction. Ten billion dollars of the savings would go to paying off the debt.
</p> Since taking up the gavel, Waxman has been able to help push two pieces of legislation through the House — a climate change bill co-authored with Rep.
While acknowledging the panel’s “professional staff,” a consumer rights lobbyist otherwise panned Waxman’s job performance, calling last year’s climate change bill “fatally flawed.”
</p> Obama was set to leave March 18 and has been pressing House Democratic leaders to nail down a strategy for passing the Senate-passed health care bill before he left.
</p> “The Speaker will make those appointments when she has completed those discussions.”</p> The panel, which will be led by former Sen.
</p> Former Virginia Rep.
Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Bill George said, however, that Specter appears to already have the two-thirds support necessary from the organization for an endorsement.
</p> According to the chamber’s quarterly spending records, the ethics panel spent $2.2 million of its $2.7 million budget in 2009.
The White House set Thursday as its latest deadline for passing the bill, although that has since slipped.
</p> That is why, earlier this month, I introduced the One America, Many Voices Act.
</p> House Democratic leaders have been searching for a way to ensure that any move they make to approve the Senate-passed $871 billion health care reform bill is followed by Senate action on a reconciliation
</p> Corker spoke at a press conference minutes after Dodd announced he would unveil his bill next week.
</p> “There are many people who share his views who are voting for this bill,” Waxman said.
</p> Democrats are negotiating the contents of the reconciliation package, which is to include adjustments to the underlying $875 billion health care reform bill approved by the Senate on Christmas Eve
</p> “It has always been my goal to produce a consensus package.
Future Fund, a conservative advocacy group, has placed a new $250,000 television ad buy targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) over Democrats’ procedural maneuvering on the health care bill
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Thursday he believes House leaders can get the votes for President Barack Obama’s health care reform package without changing the abortion language in the Senate bill
</p> Dodd rebutted claims made earlier in the day by Sen.