Obama Hits Road to Campaign for Reid — Again
</p> Obama will spend Thursday evening at two fundraisers for Reid in Las Vegas.
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</p> Obama will spend Thursday evening at two fundraisers for Reid in Las Vegas.
</p> The bill passed the House in March, and I hope the Senate will act on it as soon as possible.
</p> “Urge your Senators to vote no’ to the president’s cap-and-trade bill full of corporate Wall Street giveaways,” a narrator states in the ads.
</p> It appears increasingly likely that President Barack Obama will fail to enact any reform bill this year despite having an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress.
</p> Tiahrt responded by saying that he thinks earmarks have been misunderstood and that he is the sponsor of a bill that would overhaul the process and provide greater transparency.
</p> Schumer, former Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairman and author of the Senate version of the bill, and Reid told House Democratic brass in a bicameral leadership huddle Tuesday that
</p> In 1978, Congress came close to doing that when it considered a bill to establish a federal Sunset Commission.
Ronald Reagan wins in a landslide, but Tip O’Neill acts as president; Bill Clinton is elected by a comfortable margin, but Newt Gingrich takes the helm.
</p> In particular, Democrats will hype the financial regulatory reform bill that will likely hit the Senate floor shortly after the break.
</p> Even before the death of Sen.
The formal portrait of former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) will be unveiled in a ceremony in the Capitol on Sept. 15.
</p> Republicans expect to release the final policy document in September.
To that end, a bill under consideration — the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act — directs the U.S.
</p> Earlier this year, House Members sympathetic to Boeing were able to insert an amendment into the defense authorization bill that would require the Pentagon to report within 60 days of the WTO ruling
Six of the 16 House Democrats who voted against extending unemployment benefits Wednesday had a change of heart overnight and backed the bill Thursday.</p> Among the flippers was Rep.
</p> House Members passed the bill as their last order of business late Thursday before leaving town for roughly 10 days.
</p> The White House threatened a veto if the bill includes an $800 million cut to education reform programs.
</p> The House soundly rejected an amendment to strip war money from a supplemental spending bill, as well as two proposals to mandate a troop withdrawal.
</p> Sen.
That bill, which drew support from Maine’s two Republican Senators, tied the unemployment extension to an extension of a tax credit for first-time homebuyers.