Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
Congress is about to lose its science guy
</p> This interview has been edited and condensed.</p> Q: You’re retiring. Why now?</p> A: There’s no one thing. I mean, the redistricting [this cycle] didn’t help.
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</p> This interview has been edited and condensed.</p> Q: You’re retiring. Why now?</p> A: There’s no one thing. I mean, the redistricting [this cycle] didn’t help.
William Hoagland, a former aide to then-Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee and now with the Bipartisan Policy Center, offered some advice for Scott: “I would really try to mend my relationship, somehow
</p> “I think one would call this practically clean,” he said.</p> A Murray aide confirmed the deal.</p> “Sen.
</p> Even as Capito said she’d support Manchin’s proposal if it is included in a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running after Sept. 30, Democrats were raising voices in opposition to the
</p> “I’d be surprised if it gets 60 votes. I’d be surprised if it gets all the Democrats,” Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said Thursday, of Manchin’s bill.
</p> That bill received support from more than 150 Republicans for a 360-64 final vote, with nine Democrats voting against it.
</p> Likewise, U.S. senators are struggling along their own delicate tightrope in trying to find the right balance in a major bipartisan Taiwan policy bill this year.
</p> “We’ve made important strides to improve the program, but as my special report details, we have much further to go,” Shaheen said.
</p> Both chambers passed their own versions of the bill with bipartisan support, but the session ended before the two could reconcile their differences and send the legislation to then-President Donald
</p> Those actions have prompted public outcry, litigation and threats of criminal probes — and now behind-the-scenes negotiations on whether funding will be included in the spending bill that must be
Senate Democrats held a doomed procedural vote on a bill that would unmask more donors to politically engaged organizations.
</p> The changes were laid out in a Thursday memo from Defense Secretary Lloyd J.
</p> The Senate’s bill is co-sponsored by 10 GOP senators — the number needed to overcome a Senate filibuster.
</p> If cloture is achieved on the motion, there would be up to 30 hours of debate before a simple majority vote to adopt the motion to proceed and get on the bill itself.
</p> “This bill basically is trying to regulate grassroots lobbying,” he said.
</p> However, if passed the bill would ensure the pipeline’s completion by requiring federal agencies to issue all necessary permits.
</p> Former President Donald Trump signed into law a bill both senators backed to phase down the use of HFCs in the U.S., and the EPA last year began following steps to cut HFCs in the U.S. by 85 percent
</p> Ranking Republican Patrick T.
</p> ‘Makes me sick’ Manchin wouldn’t predict whether he’ll have enough GOP support to pass his permitting bill.
</p> Sanford M.