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White House flashes urgency on shutdown — but actual goal is murky
</p> “If this bill is filibustered on Tuesday, on the motion to proceed, people will not get paid.
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</p> “If this bill is filibustered on Tuesday, on the motion to proceed, people will not get paid.
</p> Seek incremental change.
</p> Also watch: Chaos in the House, Hamilton and Senate Judiciary is all about Bill Barr’s grandson — Congressional Hits and Misses</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Feinstein and Lofgren said the legislation
</p> Here’s the week in photos:</p>Kids sled down the hill on the west side of the Capitol on Monday.
Nominations can be advanced through a Senate majority vote rather than the 60 votes typically needed to limit debate on a bill.
</p> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Today I extended an invitation to President @RealDonaldTrump to deliver his second State of the Union address in the chambers of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
</p> Well, sort of. She’s still can’t say “yea” or “nay” on bills in their final forms.
</p> From the archives: March for Life attendees take on Washington</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> One idea advocates are pushing is for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to declare that Planned
</p> She introduced a bill on Jan. 3 that would make the District the 51st state, entitled to a representative and two senators, and she now has 178 co-sponsors.
</p> In her first term, her statehood bill got zero co-sponsors. In the next Congress, it got 81 co-sponsors — but ultimately flopped, 153-277, when it came to the floor in 1993.
By Nathan Ouellette</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> <p class="p1">The House floor got chaotic on Thursday after the House passed a continuing resolution by voice vote — a request for yeas and nays — to fund
votes to pass a shutdown-ending bill that includes funding for his proposed wall.
</p> There was some initial speculation that this was bad sign for Republicans because it could be the beginning of a GOP exodus. But it also might not be a sign of anything.</p> Missouri GOP Rep.
</p> Marino has served in the House since 2011 and was just re-elected to his fifth term.
</p> Also watch: ‘I’m not sure what’s going on, but I object’ — Confusion on House floor Thursday during attempted shutdown-ending vote</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Last year, the Republican-led House and
</p> Hoyer declined, saying he does not have the ability to do that by unanimous consent.</p> “I regret Mr.
</p> The clean-up-government-and-elections theme of HR 1, as House Democrats have dubbed their bill to show its priority status, will play a dominant role in the 2019-20 election cycle, as well as in this
</p> The underlying bill would direct aid to victims of recent calamities such as hurricanes that hit Florida and the Carolinas, wildfires that ravaged California and typhoons that struck island territories
</p> But 84 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents responded that a bill containing wall funding — even it if was the only way to end the shutdown — would be unacceptable.