Reid Lays Out Ambitious Five-Week Stretch
</p> Reid also said the Senate will take up a House-passed bill that would impose new regulations on the tobacco industry, calling the measure “way, way overdue.— </p> An $83 billion war supplemental
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</p> Reid also said the Senate will take up a House-passed bill that would impose new regulations on the tobacco industry, calling the measure “way, way overdue.— </p> An $83 billion war supplemental
He said Democratic leaders will likely push a free-standing bill in early 2010.
</p> The $787 billion stimulus bill signed into law in February included billions of dollars for the states to balance budgets and fund health and welfare programs, including state Medicaid programs.
</p> “All of us want to get to yes,— he said. “I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to vote for this bill on the Democratic side.
</p> Bill Orton was the type of Congressman whom most people say they want.
</p> “We’re coming off the recess, where we’ve made the biggest grass-roots effort around a legislative issue that we’ve made in recent memory,— said Bill Samuel, head of AFL-CIO’s government affairs
</p> Hatch, a key negotiator on health care reform, early in his Senate career successfully filibustered a union-backed labor bill even though Democrats controlled the chamber.
Federal candidates would be allowed to designate an executor to dole out funds from their campaign war chests in the event of their death, under a bill that cleared the House on Wednesday.
</p> This year, the Capitol Police sidestepped House appropriators and went directly to the White House, asking that $71 million be included in President Barack Obama’s supplemental spending bill for
After weeks of negotiations, the National Association of Federal Credit Unions’ decision to oppose language in a bill that would give bankruptcy judges the power to modify mortgages is the first public
</p> Kanjorski won with 52 percent in 2008, defeating Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta (R) after several public polls showed him trailing the Republican up until Election Day.
</p> Yet the race to replace Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) switched into high gear Wednesday, with the addition of two top-tier candidates.</p> Lt. Gov.
</p> </p> They Call Me Mellman Yellow. Ohio Lt. Gov.
</p> That idea is lunacy and ought to be put to rest immediately.
</p> The most obvious, of course, is Rep.
—</p> Similarly, Sens.
</p> The high-profile meeting comes as the House Financial Services Committee today considers a bill, known as the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights and sponsored by Rep.
American Energy Act — the bill that House Republicans pushed in the 110th Congress.
</p> Second-term Reps. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.) and Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and freshman Rep.