Boehner Asks Oberstar to Drop All GOP Earmarks From WRDA Bill
</p> In preparation for a new WRDA bill, 354 House Members — including 120 Republicans — submitted project requests to the committee last summer.
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</p> In preparation for a new WRDA bill, 354 House Members — including 120 Republicans — submitted project requests to the committee last summer.
</p> Levin and other supporters of the bill likely will make their case to reticent Democrats at a Tuesday Caucus meeting.
</p> The bill, which was unveiled last week by House Ways and Means Chairman Sander Levin (D-Mich.) and Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), is a mishmash of tax and spending measures.
</p> “It’s going to take the cooperation of both sides to get this done, so I appreciate everyone’s attention to the issues at hand, but especially this week” the Nevada Democrat said, noting the packed
extenders bill, which could come to the floor as soon as today.
It started with a trillion-dollar stimulus bill that has failed to hold unemployment in check.
</p> While Josten said the DISCLOSE bill may pass the House, he predicted that it will wither in the Senate.
Conventional wisdom says Congress ducks tough choices in election years, and it predicts at best a watered-down energy bill.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed a procedural motion Tuesday evening to end debate on a $60 billion war supplemental bill, putting the measure on a path to final passage later this week
</p> Twelve of the 14 recruits are attending the event on Tuesday and Wednesday on Capitol Hill, including state Rep.
</p> The move came just as Sen. John McCain went to the Senate floor to call for a similar plan.
</p> Americans have learned this the hard way.</p> President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill robbed the wealth-creating private sector to grow government jobs.
</p> The House and Senate are currently working to reconcile differences and produce a final bill.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday conveyed a new sense of urgency to Congress to send a small-business jobs bill to his desk.
The carbon mandates under the House-passed bill would mean that the United States could not emit more in the year 2050 than we emitted in 1910, requiring us to scale back our emissions to a per capita
Menendez argued that the border must be part of a broader bill.
</p> Feingold announced the hearing just one day after Obama sent up the request for Congress to grant him the authority to slash spending.
then-Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) broke the back of the filibuster-by-amendment, then being conducted by liberal Democrats James Abourezk (S.D.) and Howard Metzenbaum (Ohio) on a natural gas bill
</p> “There are so many things that are happening,” Sessions said.