Intraparty Squabble Erupts on Spending
</p> “The point of the letter was simply to reinforce the urgency of acting without delay.
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</p> “The point of the letter was simply to reinforce the urgency of acting without delay.
</p> Here’s a not-too-bold answer: maybe.
</p> [IMGCAP(1)]ZBB’s comeback in Georgia was short-lived.
</p> Senate Democrats pressed again Monday for lifting the oil spill liability cap — a move that so far has been met by staunch GOP opposition.
</p> Excessive shipping costs in turn get passed along to consumers.
</p> Former Rep.
</p> That pragmatism was evident early in Obama’s political career.</p> In 1995, Obama had his sights set on his first elected office, an Illinois state Senate seat.
</p> In a brief interview recently, McConnell said growing the ranks of Republican Senators is among his top priorities. </p> “I’ve been doing a lot of [campaigning] already,” McConnell said.
</p> A handful of other amendments are pending on the bill, which the House passed last month.
</p> Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has said he hopes to have an energy debate in July, but he has not been specific about which bill he would bring up.
One gay rights bill at a time.
</p> The House took up a bill last week directing the Clerk of the House to post a link to the Congressional Budget Office on her website to make it easier to find cost estimates prepared by the CBO.
</p> Additionally, “You can always count on Bill Clinton to not only excite the base but to make a very pointed and rational economic argument.
</p> Responding to questions about legislation Rep.
</p> Under current law, BP faces a $75 million cap on the cost of the cleanup as long as there is no negligence found to be involved in the disaster surrounding the explosion of its Deepwater Horizon
The move quadrupled the rent she pays, and her new $18,736 monthly bill is almost double the next-highest rental paid by a Member of the House.
</p> “No one here is an easy, breezy safe seat,” said the aide, who has worked on past campaigns.
</p> </p> Getting on Message </p> The beleaguered oil giant is getting some assistance from others in the industry who had largely remained in the background.
</p> “I felt that we talked about the things that we needed to talk about,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said after the meeting.
</p> The Speaker also said the House would be putting together the Small Business Lending Fund Act this weekend, a “very important” bill that she said would provide tens of billions of dollars to small