CR Votes Fail, as Expected
Votes on rival budget-cutting packages failed on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon, and the focus shifts now to bipartisan negotiations on a compromise bill funding the government for the remainder
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Votes on rival budget-cutting packages failed on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon, and the focus shifts now to bipartisan negotiations on a compromise bill funding the government for the remainder
</p> A handful of vulnerable Democratic moderates, meanwhile, bolted from their leadership alternative, which cut about $10 billion, although no Democrat backed the House bill.
</p> The House Democratic Caucus New Media Working Group (try saying that three times fast) is hosting a Twitter town hall at noon today.</p> More than a dozen lawmakers, including Reps.
</p> Livingston was set to become Speaker following the 1998 resignation of Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) when on Dec. 19, 1998 — the day President Bill Clinton was impeached — he announced his own resignation
</p> He added, “I believe it is a separate discussion either from the short-term or the longer-term budget discussions I mentioned today.”
</p> Rep.
</p> Four more similar cases against Grogan are pending in the court.
Bill Paxon (R-N.Y.) and Vic Fazio (D-Calif.), and Innovative Federal Strategies are lobbying for the coalition.
</p> The development of parliamentary voting raises many questions for party strategists, as well for Senate campaign managers in the key state battlegrounds.</p> Will the trend continue into 2012?
</p> Individual Senators have also renewed their push for their own energy-related bills.</p> Sens.
</p> We have — several times, and the plots have not been pretty.</p> In 1956, Hungarian insurgents rebelled against the regime and domination by the Soviet Union. U.S.
</p> Floor debate on the measure and a Democratic alternative will open around noon, with a vote on passage of the GOP spending bill at about 3 p.m., Reid said.
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday said a second short-term continuing resolution would likely be necessary given that negotiations with the Senate over a longer-term bill remain
</p> But despite those complaints, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday that he would have enough votes to pass a bill extending funding for several weeks — so long as it includes cuts.
</p> “Tomorrow, the bipartisan leadership of the House will meet to decide whether the House will take action to ensure that the constitutionality of DOMA is decided by the courts,” said Michael Steel
</p> This week, the Arizona Republican is using Sheen and his catchphrases to explain the scope of the more than $14 trillion debt.</p> “Eliminating the national debt? Duh, winning!” Flake says.
</p> “If government spending would stimulate the economy, we’d be in the middle of a boom,” the Kentucky Republican said.
</p> <p class="p4">Rep.
</p> The environmental groups are banking that the Democratic-controlled Senate will not allow many of the amendments included in the House budget bill.
</p> “I think her bringing him and [Texas Rep. Henry] Cuellar and [Florida Rep.