Boehner Statement on Cantor’s Defeat
</p> Perhaps the most revealing assessment of the evening’s turn of events came from Speaker John A. Boehner.
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</p> Perhaps the most revealing assessment of the evening’s turn of events came from Speaker John A. Boehner.
</p> </p> Nonetheless, Senate Armed Services, in a report accompanying the bill that would authorize $100 million for the fund, said that creating the new account would ensure “that the program has
To salvage a two-year surface transportation bill, Cantor stressed to conservatives “why we’ve got to do what we have to do,” he said. “What gets results around here … is education.”
To salvage a two-year surface transportation bill, Cantor stressed to conservatives “why we’ve got to do what we have to do,” he said. “What gets results around here . . . is education.”
</p> Cantor’s problem wasn’t his position on immigration reform, it was his lack of a position.
</p> Asked if he thought conservatives would be placated by a scenario like that, Huelskamp was unequivocal. </p> “Absolutely not,” he said.
</p> The 11 new Young Gun candidates are: </p> California’s 3rd District: State Assemblyman Dan Logue, who is challenging Democratic Rep. John Garamendi.
</p> He’s also well aware of how pot and hemp are viewed, because he wasn’t always a partisan himself. </p> “Willie Nelson always used to tell me about hemp, and I would go into a diabetic coma.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) In 2004, during the debate for the now-defunct Federal Marriage Amendment, tensions on Capitol Hill for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community had reached unprecedented
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</p> With his wife, Diana Fine Cantor, at his side, Cantor choked back emotion and did not sound like a man aiming to stage a comeback. </p> “I know there’s a lot of long faces here tonight.
Last year, we held a briefing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to explain what the bill would do and what its impact would be.
</p> The bill has bipartisan urgency and momentum behind it to deal with the still-widening VA scandal.
Will the Senate, poised in the weeks ahead to consider its own C-J-S bill, follow the House’s lead?</p> That the House had a vote on this amendment at all was unusual.
Will the Senate, poised in the weeks ahead to consider its own C-J-S bill, follow the House’s lead? </p> That the House had a vote on this amendment at all was unusual.
</p> This is because a bygone tradition, Seersucker Day, returns to the Capitol this week, thanks to the efforts of Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La.
One is a package of tax provisions that need to be extended following their lapse at the end of last year; the other is a bill — still yet to be unveiled — that would save the Highway Trust Fund from running
In early April, after three months of negotiations and numerous false starts, they got just that: The Senate finally approved a bipartisan bill that met every one of those demands, while paying benefits
There were 117 amendments after cloture that were considered on the bill. All parties agreed that they had gotten a fair opportunity to plead their case.
</p> </p> Boxer’s committee, one of four with jurisdiction over transportation issues, has already marked up a bill to maintain highway programs for six years.