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</p> [The Speedy End to the Flint, Government Funding Stalemate]</p> Multiple sources described the president and his team as plugged into the final stages of the negotiations via the Senate, and in
</p> </p> The White House appears satisfied with winning an authorization for additional assistance through the water resources bill.
</p> With Democratic leaders expressing comfort moving forward with a CR without Flint aid, enough Senate Democrats should be able to join Republicans in advancing the must-pass government funding bill
</p> But it’s clear that as time ran out to get the stopgap spending bill to the president, other issues that were sticking points will pop up again in spending negotiations on tap for December.
He voted for the Brady Bill, which created a waiting period for purchases of handguns and instated a background check.
</p> McCain, who lost the 2008 presidential race to Obama, said earlier decisions by the president have led to the current conflict there against ISIS.
</p> Ultimately, Ryan and Pelosi agreed on having the House vote on a Flint-related amendment to the WRDA bill the chamber was considering on the floor.
) September 28, 2016</p> <p/></p> </p> </p> Former President Bill Clinton plans to attend Peres’ funeral in Israel.
</p> (Proponents portray the bill as “narrowly” crafted to guard against such things.)
In the House, 44 Democrats voted no, and the bill never came up in the Senate.</p> For Democrats, it was a failure with little political risk.
</p> A less civil place Anecdotally, Washington feels like a less civil place now, too. That’s debatable. President Bill Clinton was impeached, of course.
</p> Water Everywhere — But Drinking It?
Blair, incidentally, drew many of his ideas about “Third Way” politics from Bill Clinton, whose wife Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination this year.
So, too, is the perceived lack of benefits from the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, the giant trade deal President Bill Clinton pursued that is widely blamed for U.S. job losses.
</p> But at one point, there was clear bias.
</p>Full of goodies?
</p> House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry backed Obama in opposing the bill.
But Democrats quickly rejected the bill, objecting to some of the text.
</p> The Senate included funding for Flint in its version of WRDA, but the House bill does not currently include any money for Flint.
</p> [Once a Cinch, Criminal Justice Bill Just Another Campaign Promise]</p> “We’ve heard that they have been briefed occasionally by Senate Dems,” the aide added, “but we haven’t seen any evidence of