Planned Parenthood Moves to Head Off Abortion Bills
</p> Planned Parenthood is ramping up against the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” a bill sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.).
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</p> Planned Parenthood is ramping up against the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” a bill sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.).
</p> DC Vote believes the Republican bill would unfairly dictate how the District can spend its taxpayer money, and the group plans a more obstinate stance toward protecting District home rule than it
</p> Similar challenges face House Democrats, who are still working out a strategy for countering Republicans on the spending bill while also offering their own amendments.
</p> President Barack Obama has invited House Republican leaders to the White House for lunch Wednesday, just as the House prepares to take up the first major spending bill of the 112th Congress.
In June, she and the rest of her leadership team huddled with the Blue Dogs to try to quell a revolt stemming from their concerns that they were being asked to vote for a campaign finance bill that had
</p> But by 2006, Sadosky was itching to get back on the campaign trail.
Taxpayers are likely to foot the bill for at least $26 million in pensions for former Members of Congress this year, even as Congress embraces austerity by curbing its annual pay raises and voting to slash
It is like a roll call of the last generation of Democratic leaders: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt — all one-time stars of the Democratic Leadership Council, the 26-year-old incubator
</p> Bill Ballenger, editor of the nonpartisan newsletter Inside Michigan Politics, said Feingold’s fate should be a warning to Stabenow.
Bill Nelson (D-Fla.).</p> “It’s no secret that I would like to run for Congress,” Hasner told the Shark Tank blog.
Although his colleagues voted down his plan to weaken the filibuster’s bill-killing powers, it sparked debate and put him at odds with Democratic leaders.
</p> <p class="BodycopyStorybasics">Republican leaders in the House are slated to offer legislation next week to extend expiring provisions of the PATRIOT Act as well as the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism
“The American public made up their minds a long time ago that this bill is a loser.”
</p> A spy spotted Microsoft founder and philanthropist extraordinaire Bill Gates and an aide entering the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday.
</p> Those who signed the letter are Sens.
</p> “A free and open press is a cornerstone of our democracy,” Boehner wrote.
Those House Members and Senators represent the first general-election victories for a political movement that began in the summer of 2009 as the health care reform bill was being debated in Congress.
</p> But the AMA has been at odds with Republicans over the massive health care law approved last year.
</p> The NFB also is lobbying for a bill that would require home appliances and consumer electronics to have audio or other features that make them accessible to blind people.
</p> The 35-year-old is now communications director for Rep. Sander Levin.