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King Won’t Hold Cruz and Cornyn Votes on Sandy Against Texas
</p> At the time, Cruz defended his vote by saying much of the spending in the relief bill was unrelated to Sandy.
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</p> At the time, Cruz defended his vote by saying much of the spending in the relief bill was unrelated to Sandy.
</p> Lawmakers from hard-hit Texas and Louisiana say they expect Congress will have to add a Hurricane Harvey aid bill to its packed autumn agenda.
</p> </p> “It always changes for a little while, and then it reversed.
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Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Wednesday for not raising the debt limit in a separate veterans bill. The president said that left a “big mess.”
</p> “We are going to do everything we can to produce the kind of farm bill that makes it possible for you folks to do what you do really, really well,” he said in Lousiville, Kentucky.</p> Sen.
</p> Here’s the month in photos:</p>Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., talks with guests during a town hall meeting in Bensalem, Pa., on August 22.
</p> “The debt ceiling will be raised,” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said, adding he has had talks with congressional leaders about how to get a bill raising America’s borrowing limit to President
</p> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Strange statement by Bob Corker considering that he is constantly asking me whether or not he should run again in ’18. Tennessee not happy!</p> — Donald J.
</p> Story: Collins to Decide on Governor Run By End of September— Eric Garcia</p> Land of Enchantment Lawsuit New Mexico Rep.
limit to a just-passed veterans bill, which Trump said would have ensured “easy approval.”
</p> </p> Pearce’s attorney Bill Canfield said Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver and Democratic Attorney General Hector Balderas’ request for 60 days to respond to the suit is politically
</p> [Bruce Poliquin: Energizer Bunny?]
</p> But largely McConnell emphasized what a unified GOP government could do.
</p> Trump tweeted that he asked Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to tie a debt ceiling increase to a recently passed veterans bill, but they didn’t.
</p> The phrase came before Trump went on to explain that reconciliation rules prevented Republicans from including some policy ideas the GOP universally agrees on in the health care bill.
</p> Trump threatened to force a federal government shutdown unless a spending bill that must be signed into law by the final minute of Sept. 30 includes monies for his desired U.S.
</p> After Trump’s extended, off-script tirade was over, he devoted just over 300 spoken words to a section of his prepared remarks on a coming Republican push to craft and pass a tax overhaul bill.
</p> At that point the moderator, Bill Pezza, a history and government teacher at Bucks County Community College, stepped in to say Fitzpatrick had already responded.
</p> State Sen. Bill Holtzclaw announced Monday he will challenge Brooks for the Republican nomination in Alabama’s 5th District, according to media reports.