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</p> Three committees, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, had been expected to begin marking up a health reform package this week with a goal of moving the bill to the floor
</p> An Appropriations subcommittee on Friday marked up the Education spending bill that would have included the Waters’ funding request that sparked the fight.
Alex Sink, Florida’s state Chief Financial Officer, raised $2.4 million total for the 2010 governor’s race, her campaign announced Friday, topping her major competitor, Republican state Attorney General Bill
While Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) tries to work with key GOP committee members to fashion a bipartisan health care bill, Republican insiders are chewing over the results of two large mid-June
—</p> Differences over paying for the plan, which could cost $1 trillion over 10 years, have repeatedly forced Baucus to delay writing the bill.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) told reporters on Thursday that she would not bring the bill to the floor, although Jackson Lee has vowed to continue to push for it.
</p> At least one of AIG’s former lobbyists has landed on his feet. Rich Merski, who was a senior member of AIG’s lobbying operation, is now at Zurich North America. </p> </p> Replogle Exits Hill.
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</p> [IMGCAP(1)]On Thursday night, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) challenged Kirk, who had asked that the entire text of a bill be read on the House floor.
</p> [IMGCAP(1)]“I don’t think it’s necessary to have a resolution,— Pelosi told reporters at a news conference, adding that such a bill would open the issue up “to contrary views.
</p> The parameters for how these various programs will function are spelled out in the multiyear surface transportation bill.
</p> Fortunately, as the bipartisan bill from Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman James Oberstar (D-Minn.) and ranking member John Mica (R-Fla.), and Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Chairman
</p> Perriello was recently targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee in a TV ad that criticized his vote for the cap-and-trade bill that narrowly passed the House in late June.
</p> That brings us to the need for Congress to take action on a six-year surface transportation authorization bill.
</p> Any progress to significantly reduce motor vehicle deaths and injuries will require Congress to address these grim realities in the surface transportation authorization bill.
</p> Intelligence Democrats released their letter as the House gears up for Thursday’s debate on the Intelligence authorization bill.
</p> [IMGCAP(1)]Twelve years ago, a few last-minute words inserted back into a must-pass bill strengthened FedEx’s hand and gave the company an unfair advantage.
The bill also imposes a user fee for six-axle units that would fund vital bridge repair.
his vote for a climate change bill that most Republicans opposed.