Obama Challenges Hill
</p> Obama came into office preaching political togetherness, only to sign a $787 billion stimulus bill backed by only three Republicans on all of Capitol Hill.
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</p> Obama came into office preaching political togetherness, only to sign a $787 billion stimulus bill backed by only three Republicans on all of Capitol Hill.
</p> Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, writes of his experiences working with five men former President Bill Clinton, former South African President Nelson Mandela, former British Prime Minister Tony
</p> My mom always said imitation is the highest form of flattery, DCCC spokeswoman Jennifer Crider said on Monday.
</p> In part, Obamas problems stem from a political identity crisis.
</p> Spratt said he is glad to have the Congresswoman on his side.
</p> Voting rights group DC Vote sent its North Carolina supporters an e-mail Friday afternoon, asking them to call their Senator on behalf of the bill.
</p> Rep.
</p> Led by former Sen.
Johnny Isakson (Ga.) succeeded in attaching a more robust $15,000 credit to the stimulus, although the final bill signed by Obama shrank the credit to $8,000.
</p> Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) became the first lawmaker to promise to flush out Stanford-related funds last week, vowing to donate $45,900 to charity.
. </p> Quinn said he hoped Burris would step down within a week but had not spoken with him.
Bill Young, the longest-serving Republican Member of the House, who was on the subcommittee when Magliocchetti was a staffer and is its ranking member now.
</p> Boxer recently rejected the notion that the recovery package amounts to a substitute for the highway bill. It is a jolt to the economy, and we get back and do our five-year plan, she said.
</p> While we were able to work together on a bipartisan basis last Congress as we prepared a bill for introduction, that was not the case with H.R. 915.
</p> We need a new surface transportation authorization bill to begin to bridge that gap and to establish a sustainable long-term source of funding for transportation investments.
The bill builds on our legislation from the 110th Congress, which passed the House but stalled in the Senate. </p> A new president and Congress provide a fresh start for this effort.
</p> LAHOOD: This is money that was put in by the president. His chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, did the negotiations on this bill.
</p> Finally, but possibly most importantly, we must address funding issues.
</p> On June 13, 2005, each cut a check to Mica for $1,000.