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</p> “By a 56-40 vote, lawmakers decided largely along party lines not to move ahead with the measure as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act… A spokesman for Harry Reid, the Senate
</p> At a June 11 markup for the Senate Legislative Branch Appropriations bill, the senators in charge of the subcommittee of jurisdiction said they will continue to work on the issue while the Senate
[jwp-video n=”1″]</p> <p class="p1">Rep. Bill “Silky” Pascrell Jr. goes all out along the first base line during Thursday’s Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game.
</p> Democrats simply blocked Obama from securing a pathway to finalize the trade deal.
</p> Rep. Louise M.
bank and the business community favor this approach and believe it is the most likely outcome due to a tight Senate floor schedule and reluctance in the House to call up a stand-alone reauthorization bill
But one provision in that bill has got to go, the Medicare cost-cutting panel known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board. This is where the Republicans are right. It has to go.
</p> House Republicans had intended to hold a vote Tuesday to reconsider last week’s failed vote on Trade Adjustment Assistance legislation, needed to send the Trade Promotion Authority bill — which
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) Five years ago, Mike Lee rode the anti-establishment wave and unseated Utah Sen. Robert F. Bennett, one of the first casualties of the tea party revolution.
Now it’s up to Obama and the Democrats to come to an agreement on an underlying worker-training bill that failed on the floor Friday, derailing the entire package. “The heavy lifting is over.
</p> Maryland’s Barbara A. Mikulski and Benjamin L.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Updated 1:15 p.m. | President Barack Obama made a last-minute trip to Capitol Hill Friday morning to deliver one more plea to fellow Democrats to advance his trade agenda.
</p> The accommodation was a clear sign Republicans are willing to be flexible on Friday’s schedule, as Democratic votes are necessary to pass TAA, an underlying worker training bill that will determine
“Senate Democratic leadership wrote to the majority leader on Wednesday to urge him to back down from his ‘ridiculous’ plan to attach cybersecurity legislation to an annual defense policy bill,” reports
</p> </p> Latinos rely especially heavily on public transportation.</p> </p> 1.7 million Latinos use public transit to commute to work.</p> </p> 3 million Latinos carpool.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) It might have been the first and only time fans at Nationals Park in Southeast D.C. chanted about a trade measure and a president (who was not one of the running mascots) gave
bill fully funding our transportation and infrastructure.
</p> (Warren Rojas/CQ Roll Call) The announcers on June 11 even called his name during the player introductions. </p> Yet Rep. Bill Shuster was nowhere to be found.
</p> <p style="text-align: center"> House Rejects TAA, Will Vote Again Next Week </p> </p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> The House plans to reconsider TAA next week, giving Obama the weekend to lobby
</p> Democrats rebelled against this iteration of TAA for a number of reasons, but ultimately it became a strategy for sinking the Trade Promotion Authority bill that would give Obama latitude to negotiate