Goodwin’s First Senate Vote a Big One
Carte Goodwin, and lauded him for providing the 60th vote that they needed to overcome a weeks-long Republican filibuster of a bill to extend unemployment insurance benefits.
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Pelosi Defends Democratic Position on Jobless Benefits
</p> “It is a path that you cannot go down,” the California Democrat said while leaving a Democratic Caucus meeting Tuesday.
GOP Prepares Members to Go Out Swinging
</p> But soon after Congress adjourned last year, videos of Democrats being lambasted by constituents angry about the health care bill and a whole host of other issues became omnipresent on television
K Street Files: Bass-Fishing Lobbyist Caught Idea for Website
</p> “We believe as much as you can see in the bill that it’s really only just begun and that the implementation of the legislation will largely be shaped through comments and letters from the Hill as
Campus Notebook: Panel Approves Boarman’s Nomination for Public Printer
Bill Halter that wasn’t mentioned in materials that the nominee gave the committee. </p> Halter was at the time locked in a primary runoff with Sen.
Democrats Throw a Hail Mary
They hope to move at least one bill on the floor each week until lawmakers go home to campaign in October.
Legislature Will Vote on Compromise Election Bill
</p> The bill had appeared doomed, with lawmakers deadlocked on certain provisions and a tight election timetable making passage Monday necessary for the bill to be effective.
Road Map: Battle Looms on War Spending
</p> “They’ll likely change the bill and we’ll have to take up what they send us,” one Democratic leadership aide said.
DISCLOSE Act Supporters Lobby Maine Duo
</p> “Senator Snowe is still reviewing the bill, but feels that we should be focusing on passing a small business jobs bill before we move to anything else,” Julia Wanzco Lawless said.
West Virginia Will Hold Special Election for Byrd’s Seat
</p> “We can have an election that will honor Sen. Byrd and show him the Constitution is alive and well,” Manchin said at the bill signing.
GOP Stop Them’ Theme Emerges
</p> Since the health care bill passed in March, Republicans have been promising to “repeal and replace” it if they retake the majority in Congress.
Senate Democrats Hope to Enjoy New Math
</p> Later in the week, Democrats also hope to clear a small-business jobs bill that has been stalled as leadership searches for those last few votes needed to clear procedural hurdles.
Supplemental Bill Defies Emergency Label
</p> [IMGCAP(1)]Nothing illustrates this better than the prolonged haggling over what was supposed to be an emergency supplemental appropriations bill for disaster relief and the wars in Afghanistan and
Brazile & Gillespie: Congress Can Expedite the Presidential Transition
</p> This political calculus is understandable but dangerous in today’s world. The Kaufman-Voinovich bill was written in consultation with veterans of past transitions.
House Approves Tea Party Caucus
</p> The House Administration Committee on Friday officially approved Rep.
We Don’t Need a DNC Lecture on Midterms
</p> Gallup’s most recent Obama weekly approval rating of 46 percent (July 12-18) is identical to President Bill Clinton’s 1994 pre-election Gallup approval rating (Nov. 2-6), just days before the Democratic
Politics & Poker: In Some Races, Cash Wall May Be Too High
</p> But the question remains: Can Republicans actually take control? Can they net the 39 seats they need to regain the majority?</p> That Federal Election Commission chart contains some clues.
Legislature Recesses Without Finalizing Election Bill
The West Virginia Legislature recessed Sunday without passing a bill that would set up a special election for the Senate seat formerly held by Robert Byrd (D), the Associated Press reported.
Clyburn Denies Notion of Intraparty Strife Over Elections
</p> In a television appearance Sunday, the South Carolina Democrat said concerns, such as those expressed last week by Rep.
McCollum & Crenshaw: Congress Can Protect Girls From Marriage
Congress can also take action by passing the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act (H.R. 2103), a bill with 100 bipartisan co-sponsors that has the power to protect girls and