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</p> The bill had overwhelming bipartisan support. Nearly 300 members co-sponsored it in the House, where it passed Sept. 19 by voice vote under an expedited process.
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</p> The bill had overwhelming bipartisan support. Nearly 300 members co-sponsored it in the House, where it passed Sept. 19 by voice vote under an expedited process.
</p> The Senate resumes consideration of the motion to proceed to a bill that would increase access to federal lands for hunters and fishermen. The measure is sponsored by Sen.
</p> The House Appropriations subcommittee overseeing the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education is in charge of the largest nondefense discretionary spending bill.
</p> According to a Senate aide informed about the legislation being drafted, the senators are looking to add the measure as an amendment to the Senate’s fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill (S 3254
</p> The Senate resumes consideration of a bill that would expand access to federal lands and ease restrictions on hunters and fishermen.
</p> Luckily, obscurity and pop culture are mutually exclusive concepts as far as the Internet is concerned.
Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, have been urging Senate leaders to take up their energy efficiency bill (S 1000), which includes numerous provisions to improve energy savings in government
But the bill, sponsored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., has little Republican support.
He introduced his proposal as an amendment to a separate pending bill (HR 2471) involving the privacy of video rental records.</p> Judiciary ranking member Charles E.
</p> </p> The hearings could prompt legislative action to increase oversight of compounding pharmacies such as the one linked to the outbreak. Subcommittee member Rep. Edward J.
</p> Obama held a similar meeting Tuesday with leaders of labor unions and liberal advocacy groups.
</p> But Democrats said that nothing about the bill — which was exclusively referred to the Rules Committee — was the product of bipartisan agreement (HR 2783).
</p> </p> “The farm bill — you can spin enough scenarios to fill up a whole bunch of papers about what may happen there,” said Bob Stallman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
</p> The bill (HR 6429) did not clear the House with the necessary two-thirds majority when it came up under suspension of the rules in September.
National security measures — including this year’s defense authorization bill, a cybersecurity bill and legislation to reauthorize the government’s surveillance authority — are also expected to occupy
“That’s why we prefer the federal bill.”
</p> Early indications are that disaster relief will become part of the negotiations toward a catchall spending bill that would fund the government for the remainder of fiscal 2013 and perhaps replace
Connecticut, hammered home their message, using the hashtag #donothingGOP to harangue Republicans for failing to address what they deemed top priorities, including the Violence Against Women Act, the farm bill
</p> </p> But the underlying dynamics of the state are more complex than last week’s results would portend.