Debt Ceiling Vote Is TARP Part 2
</p> Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.) said his vote in favor of the TARP bill cost him the chairmanship of the Republican Study Committee.
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</p> Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.) said his vote in favor of the TARP bill cost him the chairmanship of the Republican Study Committee.
Who can forget the movie “Groundhog Day,” starring Bill Murray as a hapless curmudgeon of a weatherman stuck in small-town Pennsylvania reporting on the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil.
</p> In fact, Boehner sought to cast the Cut, Cap and Balance plan as a “balanced” bill, arguing that Obama “gets his increase in the debt limit” and in exchange, Republicans would get massive cuts in
</p> Democrats immediately attacked Hoekstra’s nascent campaign Tuesday.</p> “Mr.
</p> Jordan noted that conservatives agreed to vote on that bill, which includes a debt limit increase contingent on passage of a balanced budget amendment by both chambers.
</p> One of Molloy’s duties was announcing the president at the State of the Union address, a task he fulfilled for six presidents, from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton.
In addition to cutting Members’ budgets, the bill includes deep, multimillion-dollar cuts to almost every Congressional support agency.
</p> First, state Senate President Mike Haridopolos abruptly dropped out of the GOP primary race to take on Sen. Bill Nelson (D).
</p> Coburn said it doesn’t make sense to say it’s OK to cut spending when it’s part of an appropriations bill, but not when it is tucked into the tax code. “That’s just ludicrous.
Bill Young (R), who will turn 82 next year, flew to the top of the list when he reported raising just $9,000 and ending June with $147,000 in the bank.
Bill Nelson (D).</p> “Today, I am announcing that I will no longer be a candidate for the United States Senate, nor will I seek any other office this year or next.
</p> President Barack Obama met with Speaker John Boehner (R-0hio) and Cantor on Sunday night to continue intense negotiations on the debt limit.
</p> “That has been a source of tension” between leadership and the outside organizations behind the push, Sepp added.
It was this group that forced the GOP leadership to draft tougher fund limitation language on Libya and subsequently offered even stronger Libya amendments on the defense appropriations bill.
Tim Bishop (N.Y.), Leonard Boswell (Iowa), Lois Capps (Calif.), Ben Chandler (Ky.), Jerry Costello (Ill.), Jim Matheson (Utah), Bill Owens (N.Y.), Mike Ross (Ark.), Kurt Schrader (Ore.) and Heath Shuler
It would also kick the broader budget fight over that elusive $4 trillion grand bargain to a new joint committee empowered to bring a deficit reduction bill to the House and Senate floor for votes by the
The Legislative Branch Appropriations bill was easily reported out of the full committee this week, but even Members who voted for the measure said they expect objections over budget cuts to be heard when
</p> Twenty-one-term Florida Rep. Bill Young raised just $8,700 in the second quarter, setting up speculation that the 80-year-old Republican might be headed for retirement.
</p> The bill will “provide a balanced approach so that we can demonstrate that we are getting things under control and that the people who put us here can gain some confidence that we are living like
</p> An Obama campaign spokesperson said the president is doing what the country elected him to do: Take on the big challenges facing the nation.