At Retreat, GOP Rallies Around Keystone Pipeline
</p> The conference committee will meet for the first time next week.
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</p> The conference committee will meet for the first time next week.
Bush and Bill Clinton contended with chambers led by the opposition. Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush worked with both chambers controlled by their own parties.
</p> Yet the group has found itself increasingly targeted by anti-abortion lawmakers at the state and federal level.</p> Last year, the House passed a bill by Rep.
</p> But a lot has changed since then.
</p> “The government we have is not the government we need,” Obama said.
</p> It was a frustrating lesson for the freshmen.
</p> First, those three elections were midterms and each one was more of a referendum on an unpopular president (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama) than on Congress.
</p> Reid still plans to hold the vote, and the bill remains a priority for him, a Senate Democratic leadership aide said Wednesday.
</p> After taking a hiatus, our Twitter Q&A is back.
</p> “[People] want to live where they work.
</p> During the first half of 2011, the committee’s work essentially stalled as it searched for a new staff director.
The bill initially had 40 bipartisan co-sponsors, and some are beginning to abandon it.</p> Sen. Orrin Hatch said today he no longer backs the bill.
</p> “Not yet,” House GOP Conference Vice Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.) said when asked whether she had a position on the bill.
</p> The Go Big Coalition aims to craft bill language based on the recommendations of the president’s 2010 deficit reduction commission and bring that measure to the floors of the House and Senate by
</p> On Dec. 23, the president signed into law an omnibus year-end spending bill.
</p> Rothman is engaged in a fierce Member-vs.-Member race against fellow Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell.
</p> A Virginia state Senate committee approved the GOP’s bill Tuesday on a party-line vote.
On Dec. 23, while signing a budget bill, President Barack Obama raised constitutional objections about committee vetoes. Does he understand their history and purpose? Probably not.
</p> The payroll tax cut extension bill the president signed last month gives the president the authority to reject the pipeline within 60 days if he determines it is not in the national interest.