K Street Files: Ice Ice Baby
The bill would grant musicians compensation when their work is broadcast on the radio.
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The bill would grant musicians compensation when their work is broadcast on the radio.
</p> House and Senate Democratic leaders are trying to work out an agreement to pass health care reform legislation by Easter, but House Democrats want assurances that their Senate counterparts will join
</p> Obama will speak at 1:45 p.m. about why reform is crucial and how his $950 billion proposal — which is based on Senate-passed legislation — will give families more control over their health care,
</p> Bunning, known for having a prickly personality, took shot at his own party and McConnell on Tuesday morning as he read a letter from a constituent who praised his stand against the bill.
</p> “Boy, did we get down,” Conyers told the crowd at the press conference, in which he joined singer Dionne Warwick and others to promote a bill to give royalties to musicians for radio play.
</p> In Edwards’ 17th district, businessman Bill Flores and 2008 nominee Rob Curnock continued to lead the five-candidate field, with Flores at 35 percent and Curnock at 27 percent, with 76 percent of
</p> Early returns showed Perry with 52 percent of the vote in the three-way contest, just above the 50 percent threshold he needed to win the primary outright and avoid a six-week extension of the campaign
</p> The Maryland Democrat raised eyebrows in late January when, channeling mounting House Democratic frustration at gridlock in the opposite chamber, declared the process there “broken” and said it “
</p> Obama said in a letter to Congressional leaders that he left last week’s bipartisan health care summit “convinced” that both parties “have more in common than most people think.”
</p> Will caucus members rally behind Rangel?
</p> The letter’s release Tuesday comes on the eve of a scheduled news conference in which Sen.
news conference to talk health care reform, and even trotted out Senate Budget ranking member Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) to discuss the perils of Democratic plans to use reconciliation to pass a final reform bill
During Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, James Carville told us all, “It’s the economy, stupid.” More than a decade later, the idea still rings true.
</p> Yet others in the Conference just tried to make the issue go away. </p> Moderate Sen.
</p> This isn’t just the result of simple economics.
</p> When Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and former Rep.
</p> “Even for the committee to issue a letter of reproval … [it] has to go through the entire adjudicatory hearing process,” Walker said. </p> “It’s cumbersome.
</p> Senate Republicans have maintained a filibuster of any final Democratic health care reform bill since late January, when they gained a 41st seat with the election of Sen.
</p> While gun control is usually a reliable rallying point for the right and left, there is a major complication in the case over the court’s practice of picking and choosing which rights in the Bill
</p> But there’s more this year that complicates the situation.