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The leadership pulled the transportation-HUD appropriations bill midstream because there weren’t enough votes on the majority side to pass it: Half thought it too harsh, and half thought it didn’t go far
</p> • State Sen. Torrey Westrom, the first legally blind person elected to the Minnesota Legislature. </p> • State Sen.
</p> It’s been a popular path to Capitol Hill for decades.
</p> The Senate could not clear a 60-vote hurdle on a background check bill in April, falling five votes short.
</p> “We’ve obviously fought very hard to repeal the bill, to unravel different pieces on it that are falling on its own weight, anyway,” Scalise said in a brief phone interview at the time.
</p> House GOP leadership aides were tight-lipped about the details of the new CR proposal, but rumblings suggested that the stopgap spending bill would adhere to the current sequester levels of $988
</p> Its companion measure in the Republican-led House hasn’t gone anywhere.</p> Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., introduced the House companion background check bill with Republican Rep. Peter T.
the amendment the Louisiana Republican is seeking to offer to an unrelated energy efficiency bill.
</p> The issue is close to Boehner’s heart: His very first sponsored bill as speaker was a piece of legislation to re-institute a voucher program for students in Washington, D.C.
Not when we finally have the opportunity to pass a bipartisan bill that will ensure the safety of chemicals that Americans are exposed to in their everyday lives.
</p> The nutrition bill, scheduled to come before the House Rules Committee Wednesday afternoon, is the second part of the bifurcated farm bill strategy GOP leaders devised after the original package
</p> 2. In this new bill, lawmakers don’t want to risk inadvertently catering to a now-infamous “lobster-eating California surfer” who also happens to be a beneficiary of food aid.
</p> Democrats will argue that the bill includes financial incentives for states, which administer SNAP, to move people out of the program without guarantees of continued employment.
President Barack Obama signed the bill into law (PL 112-200) shortly after Thanksgiving.
</p> There is only one non-Anglo on the entire list for 2012, compiled by CQ Roll Call from the financial disclosure reports of every one of the members. That would be Rep.
</p> The sources of wealth for the best off at the Capitol are also bound to have an impact in other ways when the tax code debate is re-engaged.
</p> This cycle, Democrats landed recruits over the summer in their only two pickup opportunities.
</p> Eight council members voted to approve the bill on July 10; nine would be needed to override Gray’s Thursday veto.
</p> With 233 Republicans in the House, and about 50 Republicans supporting the Graves bill, that leaves about 180 Republicans not on board.