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Even when Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot forced both parties to pay attention to the federal budget deficit in the 1990s — and when President Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress balanced
</p> GOP leaders were hoping to influence the format of the event in advance of publicizing their intention to show up.
John Dingell (D-Mich.), Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), Bill Young (R-Fla.) and Don Young (R-Alaska) now joke about not buying green bananas, and keenly take note of icy, slippery marble
</p> But Republicans contend that growing opposition in their ranks to the jobs bill has less to do with the legislation itself and more to do with Reid’s handling of the issue.</p> Sen.
Four Democratic Senators on Tuesday sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) urging him to pursue reconciliation to pass their party’s health care reform bill.</p> Sens.
</p> Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Rep.
</p> Murtha was “a master at work” when it came to legislating, Pelosi said.
</p> BP’s Ronnie Chappell said the company left because it can be “a more effective advocate for a good climate change bill” as an individual company rather than as part of a group.
The administration has pledged to put its health care bill online in advance of the meeting, and the letter asks the GOP to put its “comprehensive” alternative online as well.
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</p> Pence recommended Republicans make a special effort to mark the one-year anniversary of the $787 billion stimulus bill on Feb. 17 and remind voters that it did not live up to its promise.
Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) did not rule out retirement in an interview with the Boston Herald published Saturday.
</p> Providence Mayor David Cicilline and former Rhode Island Democratic Chairman Bill Lynch both said Saturday that they would compete in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary for Kennedy’s seat.
</p> “A productive bipartisan discussion should begin with a clean sheet of paper,” Boehner said in his statement.
</p> “If he just wants to talk about the House-passed bill and the Senate-passed bill and that’s it, it’s going to be very difficult, I think, to get that conversation going,” Murkowski said.
</p> “We have bridges in this country that are about to fall apart and this is the best they can do? A one-year extension of the transportation bill?
</p> “The jobs bill frankly is being done because the people of Nevada need it,” Summers said.
</p> “We’ve been putting together a good jobs bill, and we would have had it done this week except for the … 10 Members [who] aren’t here because of the snow,” Schumer said.
</p> “There are deep concerns that [the bill] would throw stuff so wide open that it would have a deleterious impact on the investments they have made,” said Jim Wise, a contract lobbyist for the Morongo
</p> “Most Americans don’t honestly believe that a single political party has all the good ideas.