Senate Democrats Will Spend Recess Contrasting Parties on Economy
</p> Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (N.J.) said the “question for the summer of 2010 is whose side are you on.”
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</p> Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (N.J.) said the “question for the summer of 2010 is whose side are you on.”
</p> Magliocchetti’s attorney was not immediately available for comment.
</p> The 61-38 vote to proceed to the bill was a significant victory for Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who wanted to clear the measure before the August recess.
</p> Snowe was one of only two Republicans who helped Democrats beat back a GOP-led filibuster of a bill to provide $26 billion to states for education, first responders and Medicaid.
</p> The meeting comes as Senate Democrats are struggling to find the votes to pass some of the Obama administration’s summer priorities prior to adjourning for the August recess, including a small-business
</p> “As millions of children prepare to go back to school — many in just a few days — the House will act quickly to approve this legislation once the Senate votes” in order to “send the bill to President
</p> Young’s office released a one-paragraph statement highlighting his cooperation with federal investigators, although it did not disclose specific allegations.
“In consultation with our leadership, I am calling Members of the House back to Washington at the beginning of the week to pass this bill and send it to President Obama without further delay.”
</p> Seven-term Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick was defeated Tuesday in a Democratic primary by state Sen.
According to the New Hampshire Democrat’s bill, departing Senators and many federal officials would be forced to sit on the sidelines for six years after leaving office.</p> The day before, Rep.
</p> And that’s what makes her such a potential liability for Democrats.
</p> Reid said “several Republicans said they need more time to consider our bill” and said he hopes that delaying the debate will lead them to support the measure later this year.
</p> “I don’t believe the moderates will change their positions at all, and so if it requires 218 votes to pass a bill, then the bills will have to fit that mold,” said Rep.
Senate Democrats are putting off consideration of the defense authorization bill until after the summer recess in hopes that Sen.
</p> Reading the bill of particulars from the House ethics investigative subcommittee, the answer is clearly yes.</p> Rangel did far more than use his Congressional letterhead.
</p> “I was told that I would receive that information yesterday and then this morning and now supposedly by noon,” McCain said.
</p> Rep.
</p> The Christian Coalition also recently hired its first outside lobbyist, according to Senate records.
</p> Elsewhere, Democratic Rep.
</p> With a CBO score revealing the measure was not fully offset as hoped, the Nevada Democrat is expected to move to table the original bill and tee up a Wednesday procedural vote on a separate, less