Reid Sets Up Process for Immigration Bill
</p> A Senate Democratic aide said Thursday that the chamber would proceed to the immigration bill as soon as it wraps work on the pending farm bill.
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</p> A Senate Democratic aide said Thursday that the chamber would proceed to the immigration bill as soon as it wraps work on the pending farm bill.
</p> Senate Republicans offered a bill, which only garnered 40 “yes” votes, that would have tied student loan interest rates to the 10-year Treasury note rate plus 3 percentage-points.
</p> Chairman Bill Shuster, R-Pa., said the Senate-passed water bill (S 601) already gives the Army Corps of Engineers too much power to select the projects that will be funded, and he has vowed to surrender
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who, along with three colleagues, sent a letter opposing the immigration bill and outlining policies that made the legislation worse.
Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced on Thursday a bill that would restrict government searches of phone numbers without “a warrant based on probable cause.”
</p> The amendment to the Homeland Security appropriations bill, authored by Rep.
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</p> The threat isn’t as broad as Boehner implied, however.
</p> There are three simple provisions any comprehensive bill must include. Each will stimulate business growth at home and help American businesses compete abroad.
But the two chambers are operating off vastly different numbers — given that the House and Senate haven’t come close to reaching a budget deal — setting the stage for another stopgap spending bill this
</p> The longer-term legislation, the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, began when President Barack Obama told House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank that the administration would largely write the bill
</p> The bill that Rubio, Flake and six others authored is headed for the Senate floor next week.</p> But Rubio and Flake were hardly alone in addressing the RSC.
He had been viewed as somewhat of a conservative barometer, and his departure could give his colleagues cover to oppose the bill.</p> But gang of eight member Rep.
</p> The duo has been working behind the scenes since the start of this Congress, building on a draft bill they crafted last year along with Harkin and then-ranking member Michael B. Enzi, R-Wyo.
He wanted the staff to have a plan to make an impact on nearly every bill that came through the committees he served on.
After years of lawmakers bemoaning the state of the current code, Price says he thinks the time is finally right to draft and pass a substantive bill — by the end of the year, in fact.
</p> </p> The latest ad, “Deciding Vote,” features a North Little Rock business owner directly criticizing Pryor for his vote to support the health care law.
</p> Ueland, currently a vice president at the Duberstein Group, worked as former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s, R-Tenn., chief of staff as well as chief of staff to former Senate Majority Whip
</p> He went on to highlight Democratic candidates who dropped their House bids early in the cycle, framing them as recruitment failures.