Schumer Emerges as GOP Target
The current stopgap spending bill expires on April 8.
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The current stopgap spending bill expires on April 8.
</p> <p class="p4">“We will be active on the Hill,” Bill Barloon, Sprint’s vice president of state and federal legislative affairs, said in a Monday interview.
</p> Video Part 1 — Doubts and Triumphs </p> </p> Video Part 2: Conscience and Controversy </p> </p> When the 13 black Members of Congress formed the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971, they
</p> Not convinced?
</p> Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) have ripped Senate Democrats for failing to pass a long-term spending bill through the Senate.
One Member — a Republican — even conflated actor Bill Murray and Yankee great Yogi Berra by declaring, “It is like ‘Groundhog Day’ all over again.”
Our party has the opportunity to get behind a clean bill with no extraneous provisions — to separate an important but unrelated battle on future spending from an unpalatable but, ultimately, necessary
</p> <p class="p3">For instance, the House leadership’s original $32 billion spending cut plan — which was scuttled in favor of the final $61 billion bill after a conservative backlash — has been widely
</p> The targeted statements distributed to the Members’ districts accuse the lawmakers of supporting “a dangerous plan to drastically reduce the security of nuclear facilities across the nation.”
</p> Cherry trees are second only to oak trees on the Capitol grounds.
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</p> But he said, “Within a month, we’ll have that taken care of.”</p> He noted that during his trips through the country, he has been encouraged to run. “The water’s pretty warm,” Gingrich said.
</p> It turned out, she wanted something more than money.
</p> <p class="BodycopyStorybasics">The Ohio Republican passed up an opportunity to be the top sponsor of the Republican health care repeal bill, allowing Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to take the
</p> According to aides, those talks have involved the spending reductions to be included in the final six-month bill, as well as the politically thorny issue of policy riders.
</p> “I’ve got two small children and it’s hard enough to get to spend a lot of good quality time now. I have a wife.
</p> The proponents of this law do not seem to understand or care about the consequences.</p> They do not care if you cannot afford it. They do not care if you have a plan you like better.
</p> We must also be creative in adapting programs to meet the needs of our military families. That’s why — to take one example — we recently introduced a bill with Reps.
</p> Conservative Sen.
</p> Health care reform could not have come at a more important time in our nation’s history.