Lawmakers Fail to Disclose PAC Ties
</p> Other Members who did not acknowledge their ties to leadership PACs as of April 20 were:</p> Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Progressive Americans for Democracy PAC Sen.
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</p> Other Members who did not acknowledge their ties to leadership PACs as of April 20 were:</p> Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Progressive Americans for Democracy PAC Sen.
</p> Public Citizen’s Tyson Slocum said Kerry’s strategy has been to cater to the polluters instead of working on a stronger bill.
</p> Dodd said he’d get his bill out of committee on a party-line vote — the 1,300-page measure was approved in 21 minutes on March 22 — and then try to negotiate a bipartisan bill before it went to the
</p> “I’m optimistic we’re going to get a bill,” Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs ranking member Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) told reporters.
</p> Schumer added that bipartisanship is still very possible, but “whether we get it or not, we will move forward, because I believe we will get Republican votes to pass a bill.”
“We will try to move to consider the bill before the end of the week,” LaChapelle said.
</p> It’s unclear whether Senate Democrats will call up the climate change bill for floor action this year.
Another House Republican is expected to step forward Wednesday in support of a new campaign finance bill, a House leadership aide has confirmed.
</p> Schumer’s decision to support a strong, liberal-minded reform bill rather than rallying to Wall Street’s defense has caused intense grumbling and hurt feelings in the New York-based financial services
Count Basie, Bill Cosby, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, Prince, Patti LaBelle, Korn and the Black Eyed Peas are among the many who have graced the Apollo stage.
</p> Reid spokesman Jim Manley declined to comment.
After a long, partisan fight around the health care reform bill, the bipartisan movement toward comprehensive energy and climate legislation is refreshing.
</p> Since the last evaluation in 2007, more sites incorporate video and RSS feeds and post basic information about Congress, such as hearing schedules, how a bill becomes a law and frequently asked questions
</p> Getting to “plus nine” for Republicans doesn’t look as impossible as it once did.
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</p> “It is a blight on democracy that we have not done so,” Hoyer said. “That bill should be unfettered by any other provision.”
</p> “We have, according to Majority Leader Sen. Reid, a window, and that window is between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July,” Gutierrez said. “We need to begin to get the bill marked up.”
</p> As Republicans continued hammering that message, White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton told reporters Tuesday, “We’re going to be able to have a bill that has some bipartisan support.”
</p> The Democratic letter responded to an earlier note from McConnell, who in recent days has pleaded for more time to work on the bill in order to strike a bipartisan agreement.
</p> Last week, McConnell accused the White House and Senate Democrats of pushing a partisan bill in an effort to score political points in advance of the November elections.