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“It was always recognized from the day the president signed the bill that there would never be enough government funding and that there would not be enough opportunity if this is only a government-run
</p> “He likes gray hair!” said Franc, laughing, about how he came to be hired by the California Republican.</p> Then he got serious.
</p> Sen. Patrick J.
</p> “There’s a Senate Democrat plan, but everyone knows it’s just a political bill — a short-term fix that would only apply to less than half of students who plan to take out new loans, and it would
</p> Manchin was one of four co-sponsors of a background check bill that failed to garner a filibuster-proof 60 votes in April, despite bipartisan backing and intense lobbying from key figures including
</p> Schumer, the Senate Democrats’ messaging lieutenant, grew increasingly animated Tuesday in response to a question about his party’s student loan bill, which Democrats would like to vote on Thursday
</p> The approval of the bill by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice wasn’t a surprise; the measure’s author, Rep. Trent Franks, is the panel’s chairman.
</p> Landrieu thinks she’s got a 60 vote super-majority at hand to attach a flood insurance amendment to the pending farm bill, but so far, she is not being permitted to offer it.
</p> He did not explicitly endorse or oppose any of the legislative proposals that his panel will consider next week when it marks up the fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill, but his comments in support
feature every bill and resolution introduced by House Republicans and Democrats.
</p> And then you pass the cards out. To everyone you know. Slowly and over time, you build an all-powerful contact list.
</p> Neither side sees that actually happening, though.
</p> Reid said that he still hoped the Senate could reach an agreement to finish work on the farm bill this week, as well as hold test votes on competing proposals to block a scheduled increase in student
</p> Several senators have introduced bills aimed at curbing military sexual assaults, but only a limited number of provisions will end up in this year’s national defense authorization bill.
Schumer, D-N.Y., while also demanding that his other amendments be adopted by the full Senate or he would not support the final bill.</p> Sen.
Now they are lobbying Congress once again to delay and deny medical bill payments to those who are sick and dying. </p> The FACT Act is not about transparency at all.
bill not approved within a larger budget framework.
</p> The White House on Monday issued a broad veto threat against a specific, pending House appropriations bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, declaring the president would reject any individual
</p> from a woman’s perspective </p> Republican leaders have been working to close the gender gap at the higher levels of the leadership rungs: Rep.
</p> </p> (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) Rather than dwell on his passing, we choose to remember all he contributed to our humble gossip section, including the time his devoted staff all sported