Lawmakers on Both Sides Scramble on Confederate Flag (Video) (Updated)
. | “They pulled the bill!”</p> This was how Rep. G. K.
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. | “They pulled the bill!”</p> This was how Rep. G. K.
</p> </p> Some news reports earlier Thursday indicated as many as 100 House Republicans said they would vote against the bill without the flag amendment.
By JM Rieger and Tamar Hallerman and Lauren Gardner</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> <p class="p1">Hours ahead of a vote on the fiscal 2016 Interior-Environment spending bill, Rep. James E.
</p> The Kentucky Republican announced on Thursday that he would introduce legislation requiring local law enforcement to notify U.S.
</p> <p class="p1"> House Floor Explodes Over Confederate Flag Resolution </p> <p class="p1"> </p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> </p> As the clerk read the California Democrat’s proposal, Democratic Policy
</p> <p class="p1"> House Pulls Spending Bill Amid Confederate Flag Debate </p> <p class="p1"> </p> [jwp-video n=”2″]</p> And while the vote won’t really be remembered for forcing Republicans to
</p> Senate Chaplain Praises ‘Courage’ of South Carolina Legislature </p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> House Democrats, including leaders such as Minority Whip Steny H.
By JM Rieger and Bridget Bowman and Cory Brown</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> <p class="p1">Hours after Republicans pulled a fiscal 2016 Interior-Environment spending bill over an amendment permitting Confederate
The bill he introduced on his first day in office in 2007, the most comprehensive update of the GI Bill in 25 years and the biggest expansion of educational aid to veterans since World War II, became law
</p> Here’s his full comment: </p> “Right now, the Interior appropriations bill in the House is jammed up because a sizable number of House Republicans are eager to protect the status of the confederate
The bill he introduced on his first day in office in 2007, the most comprehensive update of the GI Bill in 25 years and the biggest expansion of educational aid to veterans since World War II, became law
Bill Nelson is scheduled to undergo surgery on July 13, after an early diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Their bill builds on the Detainee Treatment Act and codifies the central part of Obama’s executive order. “I’ll take 70-plus votes anytime,” Feinstein said with a smile.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) House Democrats are looking many places for a message to carry the 2016 election cycle. One place they might find it is in Steny H. Hoyer’s jobs agenda.
By JM Rieger and Niels Lesniewski</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> <p class="p1">Reacting to an international tax-code overhaul proposed earlier Wednesday by Sens. Charles E.
</p> The Senate is currently advancing its own education overhaul bill across the Rotunda, and passage of that more bipartisan blueprint would ensure a conference committee.
</p> </p> McCollum in a statement said that the amendment was apparently needed to get the overall bill passed.
In an otherwise contentious debate Tuesday night over the fiscal 2016 Interior-Environment spending bill (HR 2822), the House adopted without opposition a trio of amendments that would restrict Confederate
</p> The bill would expand existing “Brady Act” background checks beyond just brick-and-mortar stores to purchases made online and at gun shows and would prevent felons, fugitives and domestic abusers
Yet the 2016 health appropriations bill cuts smoking cessation and tobacco prevention funding by more than half, and the agriculture bill includes an outrageous exemption for e-cigarettes and thousands