Pelosi Charging Ahead on Climate Legislation
—</p> During a Tuesday call with environmental and energy bloggers, Pelosi said she hoped a climate and energy bill passes the House no later than July.
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—</p> During a Tuesday call with environmental and energy bloggers, Pelosi said she hoped a climate and energy bill passes the House no later than July.
</p> Kirsten Gillibrand (Getty) </p> Democratic Sen.
</p> The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which is defending the party’s House majority in the 2010 midterm elections, said Thursday that it will run the ads next week in the districts
</p> Boehner and Cantor were divided on another key vote two weeks ago, and each took half of their party with them.
—</p> The bill would give the District a full House seat, replacing the city’s nonvoting delegate seat.
—</p> The issue of the constitutionality of the D.C. voting rights bill has been raised in committee hearings over the years and “will continue to be raised,— Hoyer said.
Arlen Specter’s (R-Pa.) announcement last week that he will not vote to begin debate on the bill. </p> That, of course, does not mean the legislation is dead.</p> Sen.
—</p> Today Speier plans to introduce a bill to establish a similar commission at the federal level with the support of a group called WomenCount.
</p> The AIG scandal has put the spotlight on taxpayers footing the bill for bonuses in a year where the economy is the worst it’s been since the Great Depression, and more and more Americans have lost
Bill Roth (R-Del.), whose signature toupee was once described in a news story as resembling a “slab of veal.— </p> </p> King for a Day. It’s his birthday, and he’ll pout if he wants to.
</p> Asked about Obama’s position on the bill last week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was unusually terse. “He continues to support the legislation,— Gibbs said.
</p> Stevens was convicted on seven counts for failing to report $250,000 in gifts from Alaska oil company executive Bill Allen and other friends.
That total includes some $400,000 raised at two high-profile fundraisers featuring former President Bill Clinton.
That total includes some $400,000 raised at two high-profile fundraisers featuring former President Bill Clinton.
major grass-roots drive for “card check— legislation during the two-week spring break, targeting possible GOP Senate pickups and potentially wavering Democrats in an all-out push for the labor organizing bill
philosophy of the supremacy of the government.— He pointed to the “card check— bill as a key example of Democrats’ desire to put power in the hands of the government rather than in the hands of the individual
</p> The frontrunner to succeed Tedisco as Minority Leader is Assemblyman Brian Kolb (R).
</p> Stevens was convicted on Oct. 27 on seven counts of failing to report $250,000 in gifts from Alaska oil company executive Bill Allen and other friends.
</p> But when an election is so close, what-ifs are unavoidable.
</p> “This bill, I think, is more tightly drafted, and more consideration has been given to it, and it gives flexibility to the secretary of the Treasury,— Hoyer said.