Obama’s Embrace of GOP Highway Fix Frustrates Senators Pushing Long-Term Deal
</p> Murphy said there’s a sense of inertia in Congress regarding the highway bill, in part, due to current low borrowing costs.
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</p> Murphy said there’s a sense of inertia in Congress regarding the highway bill, in part, due to current low borrowing costs.
</p> But lawmakers insisted the framework for their border funding bill is beginning to crystallize.
A few weeks ago, it would have been unthinkable that Congress would leave for August recess without sending a VA health care bill to President Barack Obama’s desk.
The bill is similar to a House proposal that was backed by President Barack Obama. </p> Durbin said he hopes to try to win Wyden’s support.
</p> Durbin’s comments come a day ahead of a scheduled full committee markup of the fiscal 2015 defense spending bill.
</p> The Senate rejected, by a 56-43 vote, the first procedural motion to advance the bill. Sixty votes were needed to limit debate on the motion to proceed.
</p> </p> The House hearing follows a markup on Tuesday at which the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee agreed to a fiscal 2015 defense spending bill that trimmed the counterterrorism fund
California Democrats Loretta Sanchez and Lucille Roybal-Allard, seen standing here with fellow members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, want a “clean” border funding bill.
The House hearing follows a markup on Tuesday at which the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee agreed to a fiscal 2015 defense spending bill that trimmed the counterterrorism fund to $1.9 billion
A bill passed earlier this year and another introduced in the last few days would impose additional hurdles for any monument designations made by Obama, or any president.
</p> On language blocking the District from lessening its drug penalties that was included in an appropriations bill that cleared the House Wednesday on a 228-195 vote, Ribeiro said, “We don’t believe
Boehner calling for a “clean” funding bill to bolster resources at the U.S.-Mexico border.
</p> (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) The platinum-tressed teen blew into town to draw eyeballs to the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals’ curbside veggie dog giveaway.
The Senate bill would cost $84.1 billion over 10 years; making all of those breaks permanent would cost more than $930 billion, according to the CBO.
Both measures are still with legislators who must now create one cumulative bill that, if passed, would go to President Barack Obama’s desk for approval.
Maloney’s office expressed particular concern with this passage: </p> <p style="padding-left: 30px">“The Second Amendment is not for hunting, it’s not even for self-defense,” Pratt explained in his Leadership
</p> Gray was the opposite on all counts.
</p> Hoyer said he will vote for the bill, which extends highway funding through May, but called the offsets used to pay for the bill “gimmicky.”
</p> “I’m working on the higher education bill. I’ll have it out in September. I don’t know know, maybe lame duck,” Harkin said. “Maybe.”
</p> “I think we’ll wait until the task force comes back, but I think this is a bill you see [as] bipartisan, you see House Democrats supporting it,” McCarthy said.