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</p> During remarks at the White House, Obama touted the progress that Democrats made this week on three fronts aimed at boosting the economy: passing the financial reform bill, cracking down on government
</p> In that statement, Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) praised Graves as “a rising star” who has “hit the ground running, proposing ideas and putting forward common sense solutions.”
</p> Roll Call’s own Bill Clark produced such an image, which won an award of excellence, when he captured a moment between two normally opposed political figures, in which human compassion seems to transcend
</p> Van Hollen also had a rough patch earlier this year when he pushed the DISCLOSE Act through the House, taking flak from moderates who didn’t want to vote on another bill opposed by business groups
</p> Signed by President George W.
Bill Paxon (R-N.Y.), the Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld lobbyist who was credited with raising $60,000.
</p> Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is facing a tough primary battle this summer against ex-Rep. J.D.
</p> “Why did you get me so drunk?”
</p> Following the Senate’s rejection of a House version of the supplemental war spending bill late Thursday night and Reid’s inability to move a small-business bill, the Democratic leader abruptly decided
</p> “Many of us want to do a thorough comprehensive bill,” Reid told reporters. “Unfortunately, at this time we don’t have a single Republican to work with.”
The Senate rejected the House’s broad version of a supplemental war spending bill late Thursday night, after Democrats were unable to complete work on a small-business jobs bill despite hours of tense
</p> A key goal of the bill was, of course, to prevent future disasters. But the committee sought to do more than just that.
</p> “They would repeal, repeal, repeal or apologize,” she said.</p> “We’re not going back to the failed policies of the Bush administration,” she said.
I urge my colleagues to continue to support the two-year reauthorization of the bill.
</p> So we have a choice to make.
</p> “Now Ken Buck wants to go to Washington,” a narrator says. “He’d fit right in.”
</p> Americans are ready for us to act — in fact, they’re tired of waiting.
All six West Coast Senators and almost all West Coast House Members support this common-sense bill.
</p> We should hope that the answer to all of these questions is no.
</p> “He was responding to questions about a bigger bill and said there wasn’t time to do such a bill,” Durbin spokesman Joe Shoemaker said, adding that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)