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The State of the Union is … perhaps outdated?
</p> Compare that to Bill Clinton’s first kinda-sorta SOTU on Feb. 17, 1993: 66.9 million over four networks.
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</p> Compare that to Bill Clinton’s first kinda-sorta SOTU on Feb. 17, 1993: 66.9 million over four networks.
gave in to President Bill Clinton and abandoned their goal of enacting a plan to balance the federal budget over a seven-year period.
</p> Here’s the entire week in photos:</p>Federal workers and contractors, along with their unions, stage a protest calling for an end to the government shutdown and back pay in the Hart Senate Office
By Thomas McKinless</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> <p class="p1">“I hope it doesn’t seem out of place with the shutdown,” Louisiana Sen.
</p> Pelosi said earlier Thursday that House Democrats are drafting a roughly $49 billion fiscal 2019 Homeland Security spending bill that would fit within the remaining spending caps under the budget
</p> Former House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas last year attempted to push a tax bill that included a provision to extend the black lung tax increase for a year but received push back from
</p> A: I worked on a budget process reform bill for Paul Ryan. That bill ultimately got voted on on the House floor while [Dennis] Hastert was speaker.
</p> That left consumers more vulnerable to fraudsters pitching deals on health insurance or demanding payment on a bogus tax bill.
</p> Trump warns of another shutdown if Congress doesn’t reach a new deal by Feb. 15</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> “In a short while, I will sign a bill to reopen the government for three weeks, through Feb
</p> Trump’s demand for a $5.7 billion border wall has been put on hold, while the House and Senate to go to conference on a Homeland Security funding bill.
</p> The measure, which passed the Senate by voice vote and the House by unanimous consent.
</p> The deal involves the House and Senate forming a conference committee on the annual Homeland Security spending bill.
</p> Flashback: Trump says no sign of GOP disunity, may still declare national emergency</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Emergency powers Speaking to reporters Friday at the White House, Trump said he would
</p> Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., voted yes on the president’s plan, while Tom Cotton, R.-Ark., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, voted no.
</p> Schumer’s measure, which was an amendment to an overall spending bill, fell short of the 60 votes required to advance. The spending bill passed the House last week.
</p> “We are really leaning into this,” Harrison said Thursday morning on The Bill Press Show.
</p> While many of those bills have come to the House floor, the Homeland Security appropriations bill is not yet complete, Pelosi noted.
</p> Trump’s comments came after his top spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said any short-term spending bill “would only work if there is a large down payment on the wall.”
</p> During this week in 1996, Bill Clinton tried to appease the Newt Gingrich Revolution by declaring twice in his State of the Union address, “The era of big government is over.”
Security appropriations bill would have provided; that bill was approved in committee last year by a vote of 26-5.