5 Years after the Spill: What BP Owes the Gulf Coast | Commentary
</p> </p> It’s time to hold BP accountable for the environmental damage it continues to cause the wildlife and people of the Gulf Coast.
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</p> </p> It’s time to hold BP accountable for the environmental damage it continues to cause the wildlife and people of the Gulf Coast.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) The 2016 cycle could feature the fewest open Senate seats in at least a decade.
</p> Indeed, many House Republicans are waiting to see what the Senate can pass on the DHS funding bill.
</p> But as Republicans continue to work through the issues on the border bill, and as many rank-and-file members maintain that pulling the border bill was a reflection of the weather cutting an already
</p> Senate Republicans will move next to the funding bill, McConnell said Tuesday.</p> Sen.
</p> Republicans don’t have the votes to override a veto and don’t have 60 votes in the Senate to send a bill to Obama’s desk in the first place.
</p> The Illinois Republican’s longtime partner on Iran, Foreign Relations ranking member Robert Menendez, D-N.J., is on board with a new version of the bill set to be introduced before the Senate, according
</p> Obama has denounced the bill in very forceful terms, both in his State of the Union address and in a press conference, vowing to veto it and saying there was a high risk it would scuttle the talks
</p> </p> But Senate Republicans are spelling out little about their plans for handling the contentious Department of Homeland Security spending bill with only a month to go before its funding expires
</p> “With more than a foot of snow expected in some parts of the northeast, House GOP leaders on Monday afternoon issued a revised schedule for the week.
Make that one more veto threat President Barack Obama probably won’t have to carry out: Senate Democrats are abandoning efforts to pass an Iran sanctions bill over its nuclear program while talks continue
</p> </p> The House adopted a handful of GOP amendments to a wrapup spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (HR 240) that would turn back the November orders, as well as other executive
</p> </p> Cochran: We’re going to inevitably have to work with the White House because the president has to sign the bill.
</p> “The procedural vote means that the Republicans are looking at days — if not weeks — of additional debate on the bill and the dozens of amendments that have been proposed to it, including proposals
</p> Carper, after his meeting with the mayor, said he expects he will reintroduce the bill granting statehood during the 114th Congress.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) For Republicans, the fight for control of the Senate in 2016 is all about playing defense.
</p> <p/> Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, also put out a victory statement.
</p> Unlike 2014 (and 2018), the Senate races of 2016 offer few, if any, opportunities for the GOP as the election cycle begins.
But that process is starting especially early this time: Florida’s Marco Rubio is denying Senate Republicans some potentially pivotal votes on the energy bill so he can spend this week fundraising in California
But that process is starting especially early this time: Florida’s Marco Rubio is denying Senate Republicans some potentially pivotal votes on the energy bill so he can spend this week fundraising in California