Democrats Score Big Win on Jobs Bill
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</p> Durbin said he was unsure whether Democrats could muster the 60 votes necessary to close debate on a small-business lending bill and that the time needed to set up a vote on that measure could push
</p> Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may look to move a scaled-down immigration reform bill before the November elections if he believes comprehensive reform is dead for the year.
</p> “During those 30 hours, not a single letter or a single number in the bill will change.
</p> While Senate Democrats reiterated a sense of urgency in passing the measure, the House must also pass the bill before it can go to the White House for President Barack Obama’s signature.
</p> House Republicans in March established a unilateral ban on all earmarks, but Oberstar said in May that more than 100 Republicans still had earmark requests pending in the WRDA bill, requests that
</p> The District Democrat promised to start holding the meetings after the D.C.
</p> The new coalition, whose website is called Follow the Science, is opposed to a push by ethanol lobbyists to add an amendment to the Senate energy bill that would increase the amount of ethanol in
</p> “There has been enough unnecessary chaos and controversy surrounding the vacancy in the U.S. Senate,” Capito said.
Bill Paxon (R-N.Y.), who was credited with raising $60,400. Ietan Consulting’s Wilson Pipestem and Aurene Martin also successfully bundled for the committee, raising $40,400 and $90,800, respectively.
</p> There haven’t been this many since 1954.
</p> NRCC Expands Lower Tiers in Young Guns’</p> The National Republican Congressional Committee announced Wednesday that 33 House candidates have achieved benchmarks toward qualifying for national
</p> He noted that Sen.
The bill has also authorized $15 million to establish statewide foster care mentoring programs and $4 million to begin a national public awareness campaign and mentor recruitment program.
</p> “You do it at night, the building shakes,” Waterston said.</p> Uh, nerd alert!
</p> Failure to get Yucca ready to accept waste from Hanford has been a Rossi talking point against Murray. </p> “Sen.
</p> Given the lack of support for the bill, even climate change champions have begun to warn that bringing a comprehensive bill to the floor, only to see it fail to garner even a bare majority, could
</p> Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) wasted no time Tuesday trying to capitalize on his return to a 59-seat majority, clearing a key procedural hurdle on an unemployment insurance benefits bill
</p> API’s latest lobbying total is the highest quarterly bill racked up by the industry group in recent years.
has stalled in the Senate, most notably a tax extenders bill that Democrats touted as an initiative to close “loopholes” and prevent jobs from moving overseas.