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</p> Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) joined with Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Christopher Dodd (Conn.) and Sen.
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</p> Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) joined with Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Christopher Dodd (Conn.) and Sen.
</p> From the Democratic point of view, anything that shakes up the race probably is good.
</p> </p> On Health Care, Specter Regrets Party Switch </p> In the middle of a primary that points to nothing but a tough general election campaign, Sen.
</p> “I think everybody is feeling very good about Harry,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said.</p> There’s no doubt it’s been a good week for Reid.
</p> Wednesday’s oversight hearing of the House Administration Committee included testimony from four House officers: Beard, Clerk of the House Lorraine Miller, House Sergeant-at-Arms Bill Livingood and
</p> The drama and stakes of the Senate’s Supreme Court hearings, especially in an election year, will be extraordinarily high.
Still, the do-gooding Bono got to see some of his Congressional pals at a Wednesday night dinner sponsored by the Atlantic Council, where he hobnobbed with former President Bill Clinton and dozens of Members
</p> Rep. Bill Young (R), whose district covers much of Crist’s St. Petersburg home turf, said Crist is entitled to make the decision to leave the Republican Party — even if it is the wrong one.
</p> “What is at stake here — what this bill will clarify — is what are the real options,” said Puerto Rico Gov.
</p> Feinstein said that while she and Schumer had been scheduled to discuss the bill this week, that meeting has been canceled.</p> “I don’t know what’s in the bill that Sen. Schumer has.
</p> “It’s my understanding that they had a bill that they were going to give to us this Monday until Graham backed out on the deal,” Reid told reporters.
</p> The House passed a bill Tuesday to freeze Members’ salaries for 2011, just days after the Senate passed a nearly identical bill sponsored by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.).
</p> Dodd called it “breathtaking” that Republicans continued to block debate on the bill.
</p> Issa’s bill comes the day after top Democrats on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee asked the Postmaster General to investigate whether a mailer sent by the RNC on April 12 violated a
</p> The House will vote Tuesday on a bill that would freeze Members’ pay next year, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said. </p> Democratic leaders added the item to the agenda Monday night.
</p> Though Lincoln argued passionately that her bill should not be disadvantaged on the floor, she did not appear to have swayed Reid.
</p> Leaving nothing to chance, Reid also filed a cloture motion Tuesday evening that would ripen for a fourth vote on Thursday if Wednesday’s motion is rejected.
</p> Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) made yet another plea to begin debate on the bill just before the procedural vote, which was defeated, 57-41, largely along
Senators on Tuesday morning, calling for passage of a comprehensive climate change bill.
before the Senate brings the bill to the floor.