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Kevin Calvey (R), who is running in Oklahoma’s 5th district, issued a scathing press release Tuesday announcing his refusal to accept a $25 donation from the executive director of the Oklahoma branch of
The Senate’s refusal to drop or overcome a filibuster to extend unemployment benefits and give aid to states that continue to provide a massive fiscal drag on a sick economy — to demand that they
Back in 2001 and 2002, Chairman Leahy and his Democratic colleagues blocked a committee vote on D.C.
Sessions blasted the move and again took Kagan to task over her involvement in Harvard Law School’s refusal to allow military recruiters to use certain school resources because of the military’s “don’t
Some of the pins featured in the exhibit were used to comfort the nation, such as the angel Albright wore on her shoulder following the 1998 terrorist attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
Senate Republicans insist their interest in the nomination — and the public’s concern with Kagan — will ramp up in the days and weeks leading to her confirmation hearings June 28.
However, Brown said he would probably support Reid in the general election because of Reid’s power in Washington.
In a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Leahy noted that his committee has approved 26 of President Barack Obama’s judicial nominations with
In particular, Beard berated the association for a letter President George McElwee sent to the committee in April, expressing the group’s concerns about the high turnover in the CAO’s finance office
Oftentimes American-style partisanship results in Republicans and Democrats fighting like two mindless gamecocks in the ring.
In a statement released by his office, Graham said he supports addressing climate change in a “reasoned, thoughtful manner,” but that Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) refusal to take immigration
Senate Republicans threw in the towel on their filibuster of the financial reform bill Wednesday in the face of growing pressure from the party’s moderate wing and a Democratic threat of all-night votes
“Let’s say there is 15 to 20 [percent] undecided, I would cut that in half in favor of Hanabusa,” Boylan said.
Though the repeated refusal of one or more Senate Republicans to allow Reid to bring up a bill or quickly close debate on legislation has been the primary reason for most of the 49 cloture votes
But he fails to explain why the vacancies are there: the Senate’s refusal to confirm, not President Barack Obama’s, but President George W. Bush’s nominees.
“Senate Republicans continue their ill-advised protest of meaningful health reform legislation by exploiting parliamentary tactics and Senate Rules, to the detriment of the American people and, in today
Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said his talks with leadership have broken down after Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) refusal to allow a separate vote on his strict anti-abortion-rights amendment to the health
Though Morgan left the newspaper in 1964 (and it folded in 1966), he published his first book in 1962. “Valley of Death” is Morgan’s 19th book.
The Contract for America — most of the stuff in the Contract for America was done with reconciliation. Tax cuts, done with reconciliation; Medicare, done with reconciliation.
Let’s put the exception in context.