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—</p> Thune said Democrats are using threats and intimidation to keep unhappy stakeholders silent.</p> “If you don’t engage on this thing, this train’s leaving the station,— Thune said.
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—</p> Thune said Democrats are using threats and intimidation to keep unhappy stakeholders silent.</p> “If you don’t engage on this thing, this train’s leaving the station,— Thune said.
The House passed a “cash for clunkers— bill on Tuesday amid lots of big talk about cleaning up the environment and weaning the U.S. off its dependence on foreign oil.
</p> </p> </p> 1995: Dave McCurdy (D-Okla.) <p class="snippet">The Democratic pitching ace fanned 12 in a complete-game 1993 victory and was MVP in ’93 and ’94.
</p> On the other hand, now-Sen.
</p> Correction Appended </p> Rep. Michael Arcuri (N.Y.)
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</p> In a memo sent Tuesday to Members and D.C. officials, Norton said Hoyer “has been trying unsuccessfully to get the votes for a clean bill.
</p> The bill, which would give D.C. its first-ever Representative, stalled in March because of the poison-pill amendment.
</p> “We are mindful that the Speaker has pledged to the president that the House will vote on a bill before the August recess.
</p> In a letter sent Tuesday to the three Democratic Senators in charge of crafting a reform bill, the Republicans on the Finance and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees reiterated their
</p> Facilities maintenance, however, is one of the few items appropriators generously funded in the spending bill.
bill that strongly backs a public option without such a trigger.
</p> But they conceded that some of their ideas are already being included in the package being put together by Democratic leaders, and they said they aren’t prepared to unite in opposition to that bill
</p> Discussions are still ongoing on the HELP bill, which will merge with legislation being written simultaneously by the Senate Finance Committee.
</p> While some groups, including those that could be most deeply affected by health care reforms, said they needed more details or more time to digest what Chairman Edward Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) bill could
—</p> Both Senators said they were alarmed that a House-Senate conference committee on the supplemental war spending bill appears poised to eliminate language — inserted by the two Senators — that would
</p> Obama is preparing to unveil a proposal to re-regulate the financial markets, and he expects a massive health care reform bill on his desk by Oct. 15, a task with which the HELP panel is intimately
</p> Appearing at the White House following an East Room event, Blue Dog leaders said an announcement on plans to move a PAYGO bill in the House could come next week and that the Budget Committee plans
</p> Obama’s task list is long, and not entirely of his making.
</p> State Sen. Tom Bakk told the Mesabi Daily News that he will officially kick-off his campaign for the Democratic nomination this week. And former GOP state Rep.