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</p> To be sure, this bill probably will not cost members as much politically as, for example, votes for the Troubled Asset Relief Program in 2008 or the president’s health care overhaul in 2010.
The House voted late Tuesday to pass a fiscal cliff bill brokered without the involvement of the GOP majority and with less than half of their votes.
</p> He made similar statements on other news outlets.
</p> Young pulled a similar amendment at the behest of leaders in November.
</p> Marc Brumer has been hired as communications director to Maffei. Brumer was spokesperson for Maffei’s 2012 campaign.
</p> The result of the new effort could be a new outside organization or a project run by the party committees.
Chris Christie led the attacks on the speaker for failing to bring to the floor, and thus killing, a Senate-passed bill (HR 1) that would have provided $60.4 billion in disaster funding.
</p> Udall and Democratic Sen.
</p> “I don’t particularly like the bill that is going to come to the floor, but I am going to vote for it,” he said.
</p> When President Barack Obama, Speaker John A.
</p> More than seven pages of the 63-page report were devoted to an investigation into whether Rep.
</p> While it is easy to complain about gridlock in the nation’s capital and bemoan the inability of Congress to compromise on taxes, spending, unemployment insurance, the farm bill and other matters,
</p> It’s also about business.
</p> Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said, “The seaker is committed to getting this bill passed this month.”
</p> The sequester bill (HR 5652) passed the House 218-199 largely along party lines in May but was never taken up by the Senate.
Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, meanwhile, gave the strongest indication yet that leadership stands opposed to passing the bill without amending it. </p> “I do not support the bill.
</p> The course of action came after House Republicans almost uniformly panned the Senate bill (HR 8), which passed 89-8, for not cutting spending enough.</p> Speaker John A.
</p> Despite deep opposition expressed throughout the day from the conference, GOP leaders were not able to secure enough votes to amend the Senate bill (HR 8) with additional spending cuts, and they
</p> But the fiscal cliff bill (HR 8) would fully repeal the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act and put a commission on long-term care in its place.
</p> And a Democratic leadership aide said that Boehner’s plan B bill was “such a farce” that it made it easy for Democrats to oppose.