Republicans Regroup on Border Funding Bill
</p> It could happen as early as Friday morning — the GOP will gather at 9 a.m. to discuss new policy proposals to accompany a $659 million appropriations bill they abruptly yanked from consideration
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</p> It could happen as early as Friday morning — the GOP will gather at 9 a.m. to discuss new policy proposals to accompany a $659 million appropriations bill they abruptly yanked from consideration
</p> It could happen as early as Friday morning — the GOP will gather at 9 a.m. to discuss new policy proposals to accompany a $659 million appropriations bill they abruptly yanked from consideration
</p> Here’s Press Secretary Josh Earnest’s statement: </p> It is extraordinary that the House of Representatives, after failing for more than a year to reform our broken immigration reform system,
</p> </p> “Scuttling reform and prolonging a crisis are not part of his job description,” the Kentucky Republican said on the Senate floor.
Stars and Stripes reports that “the House overwhelmingly passed a $17 billion emergency bill Wednesday that brings comprehensive reform of the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs health care system
As House GOP leaders scrambled to whip votes on a border supplemental bill Thursday, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called the closing hours before the August recess a “mess” on the House floor
</p> “And with that, I yield back,” he said.
</p> He might even win.
</p> He might even win.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) The careers of Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz and Gov.
</p> One vote will be on the $659 million appropriations bill aimed at curbing the flow of child migrants at the U.S.
</p> The veto threat could buck up Democrats looking to kill the bill in an effort to push Republicans to pass a more generous version.
</p> After the meeting, Cruz emerged and told reporters what he hopes happens on Thursday is that “the House passes a bill ending President Obama’s amnesty.”
</p> The bill — crafted by House Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Jeff Miller, R-Fla., and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Bernard Sanders, I-Vt. — proved so popular that leaders brought it to the floor
</p> “A conference committee of House and Senate leaders on veteran issues agreed to the deal, but its future is far from certain.
“And I think there’s an optimism that we’ll be able to figure out the VA bill and the transportation bill.
</p> Democrat Bill Foster’s Longworth office is a modest one, its small waiting area festooned with the requisite Lincolnia befitting a House member from Illinois.
</p> In June he hobnobbed with Bill Nye the Science Guy at the White House Maker Faire, a kind of summit to push innovative entrepreneurship.
</p> Even though the effort is likely to be futile, given comments by Speaker John A.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Eric Cantor’s slow fade toward the exits of the House majority leader’s office is one day from its official completion.