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—</p> In the 2008 appropriations bill, Murtha secured $2.4 million for KDH for a “waterway threat detection sensor system,— and a 2006 press release from his office indicates that he also secured an earmark
</p> 1984 The enactment of the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act, or the Hatch-Waxman Act, creates the modern generic drug industry. The bill is co-sponsored by Sen.
—</p> Senate Democratic leaders’ official timeline still calls for a bill to clear the chamber by Aug. 7, according to a senior Democratic aide.
</p> “Senator Harkin and his legislative staff are continuing to work on the bill and are making progress,— spokeswoman Bergen Kenny said.
massive omnibus spending bill or a stop-gap measure.
</p> Like any bill killed by interparty fighting and not its own demerits, the precise reasons for its demise come down to a set of “he said, she said— accusations.
Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is hoping for a bipartisan bill, a difficult lift given liberal Democratic support for and GOP opposition to the public option.
</p> Wroe, who serves as health counsel to Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), always makes clear up front what her boss needs to support a bill, the senior aide said.
</p> While the House of Representatives passed a climate bill immediately before Members left for the July Fourth holiday break, the narrow 219-212 majority ought to be unsettling to supporters of the
</p> The House is expected to pass an appropriations bill that would hike spending for the FDA by a healthy 11 percent for fiscal 2010.
</p> “Sen. Kennedy is doing well and even manages to get in a few sails between his work on health reform and his treatments,— Coley said.
</p> Scott McInnis </p> Two former U.S. House Republicans this week re-entered political life by filing paperwork to formalize their 2010 campaigns for governor.
</p> The Obama administration is stocked with former aides to President Bill Clinton, many of whom have close relationships with former colleagues who resisted the aphrodisiac of power in the White House
</p> With a seat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Franken has already missed two weeks of the panel’s markup of a sweeping health care reform bill.
</p> Most of that funding is now secure.
—</p> Hollywood executives were reportedly displeased with the MPAA when it lost a battle to keep more than $200 million worth of tax breaks in the economic stimulus bill.</p> I’m on a Boat.
</p> [IMGCAP(1)]But Washington, D.C., is not always that simple.
</p> A Republican Senate aide agreed. If the reform bill includes changes to medical malpractice, it will infuriate trial attorneys.
Charlie Rangel, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee — which happens to have a major hand in the health care reform bill being formulated on Capitol Hill.