Payroll Tax Deal Taking Shape
</p> Before all the specifics were released, Members on both sides, even in leadership, groused about provisions in the bill.
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Bishops Urge Senate to Adopt Roy Blunt’s Birth Control Bill
</p> The Missouri Republican’s bill, which he has sought to attach to a transportation bill making its way through the Senate, would allow employers to opt out of a rule requiring insurance plans to include
Negotiators Reach Deal on Extending Payroll Tax Cut
The pledge promises each bill will be posted for three calendar days before a floor vote.
House Republicans Temper Expectations on Payroll Tax Deal
A handful of conservatives have already stated that they will not vote for a bill because it does not pay for $100 billion cost of the payroll tax holiday with spending reductions elsewhere.
Scott: Bill Would Ensure Fairness in Workplace
</p> Unfortunately, appeasing organized labor is at the top of the president’s list.
Keystone Pipeline Finds New Opponents
</p> Bill Peacock, vice president of research for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, said eminent-domain laws skew in favor of companies because landowners have to wage costly court battles to challenge
Boehner Scrambles to Save Highway Bill
</p> The transportation bill, however, does not enjoy broad support. One GOP leadership aide said “hopefully this will make it easier” to pass all three.
Speaker Refashions Transit Bill
</p> But, facing a revolt not just from conservatives but also from rank-and-file Members with parochial concerns, Boehner abandoned that plan, and the bill instead underwent the legislative equivalent
Pelosi: No Recess Without Deal on Jobless Benefits
</p> House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi today said she will support a clean payroll tax cut extension bill if Republican leaders decide to bring it to the House floor this week.
Harry Reid Will Allow Vote on GOP Birth Control Proposal
</p> “I have agreed to a vote on contraception,” Reid said today.
Conferees Homing In on Payroll Tax Cut Deal
bill, which is slated for floor action Wednesday.
Obama, GOP Budgets Present Clear Choices
</p> It goes to the next level, the ironic one — a bill to deal with insider trading written behind closed doors by insiders to dilute the Senate bill.
GOP Freshmen Find Cash Is Tough to Give Back
</p> But the eight Republicans called on Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to make sure their money immediately went toward paying down the national debt.</p> The problem is: Boehner can’t do that.
Parties Near Deal on Payroll Tax Cut Extension
</p> Conferee Rep.
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Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts unsuccessfully waged in 1980 — an experience that Carter’s two Democratic successors have been fortunate to avoid, despite the huge setbacks that Presidents Bill Clinton
Herrera-Flanigan: Time for Congress to Act on Cybersecurity
</p> Quite simply, there is a difference between the Senate moving a bill that certain sectors may dislike and the Senate moving a bill too quickly.
Republicans Shift Tactics on Payroll Tax Cut Extension
</p> A bill from GOP leaders could come to the House floor as soon as Wednesday. Though Democrats immediately groused, Republicans are hoping they will find such an offer impossible to shun.
Rand Paul Holds Up Senate Action Over Detainees in Egypt
Circuit Court of Appeals as well as a transportation bill in an effort to force Senate leaders to schedule a vote on his proposal to cut off aid to Egypt until Americans being held there are released.
Campus Notebook: Barack Obama Budget Increases Legislative Branch Spending
</p> That would be about $200 million more than the $4.3 billion legislative branch spending bill enacted late last year as part of the fiscal 2012 omnibus spending legislation.
Will STOCK Act Expand Federal Gratuities Law?
</p> A: Last week, by a 417-2 vote, the House approved a bill widely known as the STOCK Act.