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(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) There are at least five lawmakers topping Roll Call’s 50 Richest Members of Congress list for the final time.
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(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) There are at least five lawmakers topping Roll Call’s 50 Richest Members of Congress list for the final time.
</p> Minority Whip Steny H.
</p> “It’s always 90-percent plus,” he said.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Congress appears set to sprint for the exits after voting to fund President Barack Obama’s new war on ISIS — although not by name — after rejecting a smattering of calls from
</p> Time marched on, as did Pingree’s priorities. </p> Then, one day, fate intervened. </p> “A couple years later she called me up and said, ‘I want to sell it.’ And I said, ‘Oh no.
</p> </p> The bill follows Amtrak’s move last year to divide its system into three “lines of business.” </p> </p> One serves the Northeast.
</p> </p> The first bill, HR 3636, would provide a short-term fix, more or less echoing the Murphy-Corker proposal.
</p> Sen. Thomas R.
Joe Manchin III, another coal state Democrat, who famously shot a copy of the Cap and Trade bill with a rifle in a 2010 campaign ad.
While he wouldn’t commit to being able to pass the bill with just GOP votes, he said he “always” looks at continuing resolutions as bipartisan bills.
</p> That vote, however, will now likely be coupled with consideration of an amendment to the underlying bill that would authorize the Obama administration to train and arm Syrian rebels against the
</p> The past several years have marked a significant shift in the balance of power in Washington, and Congress has no one but itself to blame. </p> </p> Speaker John A.
</p> The DCCC also shifted funds to give additional help to Reps. John Barrow in Georgia and Bill Enyart in Illinois.
</p> More than you’d expect, apparently.
</p> Only 42 percent of those who responded felt positively toward Obama, while 46 percent felt negatively.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Ten months after his fellow Democrats “went nuclear” in the Senate on his behalf, President Barack Obama is done putting his stamp on the federal judiciary — at least for the
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) As national analysts say the odds are increasingly against them, Democratic senators and senior operatives remain optimistic the party’s most vulnerable incumbents can survive
</p> A bill passed by Congress in October 2008 formalized the change.
</p> A bill passed by Congress in October 2008 formalized the change.