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</p> Strangely, both are correct.
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</p> Strangely, both are correct.
</p> “Yeah, that’s what’s going to happen,” a GOP leadership aide conceded when asked if the House would be forced to take up the Senate’s bill.
</p> The bill is designed to make it easier for small businesses to raise capital.
</p> The bill, put together by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), cleared the chamber today 390-23.
And we can do that by taking up the bipartisan jobs bill the House will pass later today.”
</p> DC Vote is also calling on supporters to inundate Franks’ district and Washington offices with phone calls and emails, demanding that he withdraw a bill that the group says would infringe on D.C.
Senate leaders reached an agreement late Wednesday evening to finish work on a transportation bill, but final passage is likely to slip into next week.
“But we’re on track with where we wanted to be, and we’re on schedule with when we want to bring our bill up.”
The amendment, offered to the Senate surface transportation bill, needed 60 votes to pass but failed 56-42. Eleven Democrats joined the Republicans voting for the amendment.
Bill Pascrell over Rep. Steven Rothman.</p> “Bill Pascrell is my friend and my brother,” Lewis said in a statement. “I serve on the Ways & Means Committee with him. We work together.
</p> “I don’t think people want to sink the bill. I think it’s really important that we pass a bill, so hopefully we’ll find common ground, find a compromise,” said Rep.
</p> Unlike current law and other proposals for immigrant entrepreneurs, our bill would give the founder of even the smallest startup with little more than an idea and a set of skills the opportunity
</p> Asked whether he would seek the slot, the New York lawmaker said he would rather stick to the seniority system.</p> “There’s a pecking order.
</p> Schmidt didn’t lose for any one factor.
</p> Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he has discussed the bill with the White House and is hopeful the measure will move forward.</p> “The president — I’ve met with him.
</p> The provision in question explicitly identifies a section (an old earmark, as it happens) from the 2005 highway bill.
</p> The bill, sponsored by Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.), has 20 Democratic co-sponsors and will be marked up Thursday in the Ways and Means Committee.
Senate Republicans blocked the chamber from bringing debate on a highway bill to a close today, calling into question whether the Senate can pass the $109 billion measure that would reauthorize federal
With the highway bill stalled, the Laborers’ International Union of North America today launched a new radio ad and direct-mail campaign targeted at Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader