Southwest: Teague, McCain Bloody Fights Get Top Billing
bill in March and represent districts that backed Arizona Republican Sen.
Search the Roll Call archive by keyword, date, Congress, section, or tags.
bill in March and represent districts that backed Arizona Republican Sen.
</p> But before Lincoln can turn her full attention to the general election, she has to beat back a high-profile primary challenge from Lt. Gov. Bill Halter (D).
</p> The two leading Republican candidates are state Sen. Bill Stouffer and former state Rep. Vicky Hartzler.
</p> “This is lobbying and communications 101,” he said.</p> From the beginning of 2009 through March of this year, FedEx shelled out $21.1 million on lobbying.
</p> A Democratic nobody, local school board official and union activist Bill Hedrick, with almost zero support from party leaders, came close to ousting Calvert in 2008.
</p> The widespread popularity of Rep.
</p> House Democrats pulled their science authorization bill from floor consideration after Republicans successfully attached an anti-pornography amendment to it that also gutted sections of the bill.
</p> The amendment to the financial regulatory reform bill, which is expected to be debated Thursday, would also allow merchants to offer discounts to customers based on their payment method.
</p> In preparation for a new WRDA bill, 354 House Members — including 120 Republicans — submitted project requests to the committee last summer.
The Senate is poised to wind down consideration of the financial regulatory reform bill with a vote to end debate expected by midweek.</p> “That’s what’s likely to happen,” Sen.
Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) held on an interchange fee amendment he is sponsoring on the financial regulatory reform bill.
Representing a Cincinnati-based swing district, he’s being hammered by Republicans for backing controversial Democratic initiatives such as the stimulus bill, the cap-and-trade energy bill and the health
agreed to give Afghan President Hamid Karzai floor privileges on Thursday, allowing the unpredictable leader and his entourage to mingle with Senators during a vote on an amendment to the financial reform bill
Republicans thwarted a bipartisan attempt to restrict secret holds in the Senate on Thursday night, arguing that the measure was unrelated to the financial reform bill the Senate was considering.
. … By the end of this race, Bill Flores will not be a generic Republican.”</p> Democrats want to fight a series of local races.
</p> But the two former presidential contenders struck an optimistic tone during their high-profile rollout, with Kerry asserting, “This year with this bill we’re going to fight to get 60 votes.”
</p> “This year with this bill we’re going to fight to get 60 votes,” Kerry said.
House Democrats added 88 co-sponsors overnight to their new campaign finance bill designed to defuse a recent Supreme Court decision.
</p> Among its provisions, the bill would update current statutes relating to caps on damages, provide aid to fisheries, grant up to 26 weeks of employment and food assistance to workers who lose their