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Jason Smith plans focus on ‘security’ issues in new Budget panel role
</p> “We will win the majority in two years,” he told CQ Roll Call after his election as ranking member Thursday.
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</p> “We will win the majority in two years,” he told CQ Roll Call after his election as ranking member Thursday.
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> There’s a computer system that members-elect and staff can peruse, which includes some key details about the office suites, including if the office is eligible for new carpet
</p> Well, history tells us it matters a lot.
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Veto threats Trump had threatened to veto the bill if it required name changes at military installations that honor Confederates, such as Fort Benning in Georgia, where two
</p> The Armed Services Committee is central in the showdown now playing out to approve a final version of that Pentagon policy bill before Congress adjourns for the remainder of the year.
</p> Whether that proposal advances — and early indications from the White House and from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who released his own targeted bill late Tuesday, are that it will not
</p> In announcing the calendar, House Majority Leader Steny H.
Shelby thinks another short-term stopgap funding bill is likely given lingering disagreements on an omnibus package wrapping together $1.4 trillion in unfinished agency budgets for the fiscal year that
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> “We first met in 1969, when I was working for a freshman senator named Marlow Cook and he worked down in the executive branch.
</p> The main bill on the House floor this week is a measure to decriminalize marijuana and provide a process for expunging marijuana-related convictions.
Republicans had included a $300 weekly benefit through Dec. 27 in their earlier bill.
A bill on digital identity that Foster introduced this year was co-sponsored by Republican Reps. John Katko of New York and Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, as well as Rep.
Funding for veterans medical care and border security remain holdups in the drive to reach agreement on a 12-bill spending package for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
Democrats lost 63 seats in 2010 and 54 seats in 1994 during Barack Obama’s and Bill Clinton’s first midterms as president.
</p> </p> Yes, there will be a coming (warning: cliché ahead) battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. But that needs to come later.
</p> Devil in the details Outside experts aren’t so rosy.
Shelby of Alabama, killed a bipartisan bill that would have required all states to have paper backup systems that could be used to conduct postelection audits.
, but in recent years it has become a substantive vote that would actually amend the bill if adopted.
</p> She began her political career as an associate director for domestic policy in Bill Clinton’s White House, later serving as a health care adviser in the Obama administration.
</p> DeLauro, Lowey and Pelosi learned the appropriations ropes together during the 1990s. The trio was so close they became known as the “DeLoSis.”</p> Former Rep. James P.