Senate Appropriators Prepare Sandy Relief Bill
Senate leaders may bring the aid package to the floor next week using the House-passed fiscal 2013 Military Construction-VA spending bill (HR 5854) as a vehicle.
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Senate leaders may bring the aid package to the floor next week using the House-passed fiscal 2013 Military Construction-VA spending bill (HR 5854) as a vehicle.
The chamber is scheduled to vote on cloture on the bill at 2:15 p.m. The Senate will also consider two nominations.</p> House </p> Convenes at 2 p.m. for legislative business.
</p> The hearing Monday at the U.S.
</p> Inouye is currently at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
</p> Below is a breakdown of the races where there are members worth watching as potential gubernatorial candidates this cycle: </p> Potential Democratic Candidates </p> Iowa: Rep.
</p> Similarly, Indiana Democratic Rep.
</p> Reached by phone Monday, Paridy declined to comment. </p> “Even members of Congress buy holiday gifts for their families this time of year.
</p> Both Reid and Bennet were early backers of comprehensive immigration reform and the Dream Act, a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
</p> The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, who has already suggested giving in on tax rates, said on Fox that Republicans should look to the debt ceiling as an opportunity, and he laid out a possible endgame
</p> Agriculture </p> Chairman: Frank D. Lucas, Okla. </p> The farm bill remains front and center on the committee’s “to do” list.</p> Ranking member: Collin C.
</p> Agriculture </p> Chairman: Frank D. Lucas, Okla. </p> The farm bill remains front and center on the committee’s “to do” list.</p> Ranking member: Collin C.
During debate on the fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill, the Senate adopted several new amendments on this score. One by Sen.
</p> “They all have tribes within their states and are concerned about the violence our Senate bill is trying to combat,” Leahy said of the House bill, which would allow defendants to move a case to federal
The Senate will resume consideration of a bill that would extend for two years the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Transaction Account Guarantee program, which provides unlimited deposit insurance
</p> And unions remain under GOP assault at the state level, as evidenced by Michigan legislators’ approval last week of a “right to work” bill that would ban employment conditions requiring workers to
</p> The House passed Paulsen’s bill to repeal the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices in June, with support from 37 Democrats.
Senate Democrats having set a goal of clearing an aid bill this month.
</p> Democratic leaders wouldn’t allow the standards to be proposed as an amendment to the Senate-passed farm bill (S 3240).
</p> “[Norton] continues to pursue a budget autonomy bill in Congress in order to preserve the bipartisan congressional support that has been building, and that may prove necessary, considering the many