Snowe Falls on The Monocle
</p> Snowe has a new book out. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) The Maine Republican, now a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, will be at the venerable watering hole at 107 D St.
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</p> Snowe has a new book out. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) The Maine Republican, now a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, will be at the venerable watering hole at 107 D St.
</p> But following the House Agriculture Committee’s late night vote approving a “new” farm bill with $20.5 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, compared to $16 billion in
</p> “The same people planned on filibustering the gun bill and not moving forward with it for debate,” McCain said in reference to a bid by some conservatives to block the motion to proceed to an ill-fated
</p> She said the choice of Douglass reflected D.C. citizens’ attention to issues of self-governance.
</p> The opening night show, “Letters to Jackie,” sets the stage for the full slate.
</p> It is irresponsible and reckless to allow purchasers to acquire lethal firearms without first passing a background check.
</p> It was the final amendment discussed before the panel voted, 13-5, to send the bill to the floor.
</p> The most significant action taken Tuesday on the underlying bill, negotiated by a bipartisan “gang of eight” senators, was to substantially amend provisions on high-tech visas in an attempt to win
</p> Turner’s bill (HR 1867), which he co-sponsored with Democrat Niki Tsongas of Massachusetts and will be included in the House panel’s version of the authorization bill, would ensure those found guilty
</p> If the Senate Judiciary Committee currently marking up the bill doesn’t include protections for lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender persons, advocates would face a much tougher hurdle adding an
</p> It was good for a laugh but just not true.
</p> It was good for a laugh but just not true.
Boehner is vowing that Oklahoma tornado victims will get relief — but he demurred on when and how the House might act on a bill, and whether his conference would support it.
</p> Begich’s bill, for example, was one of several measures that was incorporated into mental health legislation (S 689) approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee last month
Nevertheless, the exercise has become so old hat that none of the nine House committees of jurisdiction bothered to report the bill this time.
</p> But, the Senate being the Senate, there’s also a good shot of seeing the IRS matter surface as part of the floor debate on the farm bill. Sen.
</p> As for Republicans who might balk at the prospect of passing a disaster relief bill for the wreckage in Oklahoma without significant offsets, Hoyer said it could all come down to “the ideology of
</p> However, Inhofe may have to fight off a number of his colleagues to keep a disaster bill clean.
The Pittsburgh punk godfathers share the bill with a host of other like-minded bands and are scheduled to go on at 9:50 p.m. at 1940 9th St. NW. $16 in advance, $18 at the door.
</p> Sen. James M. Inhofe is warning against a supplemental spending bill that balloons with money to assist other areas.