Every December, Why All the Drama?
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Every December brings anxieties about Congress finishing its work in time to avert a government shutdown.
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(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Every December brings anxieties about Congress finishing its work in time to avert a government shutdown.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) When you write dozens of columns each year, as I have been doing for a long time (some people think far too long), you look back at some of them with embarrassment
the odds of releasing a final bill this weekend are slim.
bill this weekend are slim.
to attach the tax extenders package to the spending bill.
</p> <p class="p1"> Pelosi Says House Democrats Will Oppose Extenders Deal </p> <p class="p1"> </p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> </p> “I’ve never been for it.
By Thomas McKinless and Lindsey McPherson</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> <p class="p1">Republicans should not attach an expensive package of permanent and temporary tax breaks to the government funding bill
</p> Negotiations over the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill aren’t the only thing on Congress’ to-do list that will stretch into next week.
Electronic cigarette manufacturers are pushing hard for a policy rider in the year-end catchall spending bill that would shield them from a costly, time-consuming Food and Drug Administration approval
</p> <p class="p1">The chamber used an amended bill the House had passed earlier this spring, the fiscal 2016 Legislative Branch Appropriations measure.
</p> <p class="p1">The chamber used an amended bill the House had passed earlier this spring, the fiscal 2016 Legislative Branch Appropriations measure.
</p> Despite that, House Republican leadership hadn’t committed to a specific vehicle for the 9/11 bill as of Thursday morning.
</p> But, for the most part, senior White House staffers have communicated the Obama administration’s views on various issues related to the under-construction omnibus spending bill.
</p> Tillis said in a statement that he didn’t want the underlying bill regarding terrorism to get tied up with the debate over Trump’s comments.
</p> Publicly, the White House has tried to pressure Republicans to drop their insistence that the massive spending bill contain policy provisions that Democrats and the president oppose.
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</p> Kander is playing up his experience as an Army intelligence officer.
</p> (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) <p class="p1">Hooper said that the number of threats has “gone up tremendously” since the terrorist attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, the attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., on
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) Donald Trump’s call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” has intensified Democratic attempts to tie vulnerable members of the