Editorial: Dysfunction
Then, the Senate Finance Committee should have moved with dispatch to vet the nomination and schedule hearings.
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Then, the Senate Finance Committee should have moved with dispatch to vet the nomination and schedule hearings.
The other most likely thing on the schedule for the fall is a stopgap measure to keep the government running past Oct. 1.
Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) that could throw that schedule into doubt.
With Brown and Snowe now behind the measure, Reid could schedule a final vote as early as this week.
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Still, Reid has yet to set a concrete schedule for the month, given that he hasn’t firmed up the votes for financial reform or the unemployment bill — both candidates for action this week.
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The pace and schedule during the debate over reform have been exhilarating too. “It’s what we’re all called up to do,” Bartlett said. “It’s not as hard as being a 2nd lieutenant in Afghanistan.”
“The fact is, we’ve got an ambitious schedule set up for July.
“You can go back over the last 16 years and look at my schedule [and] you’d be hard-pressed to find a night where I wasn’t doing events for my colleagues and candidates.”
Of course that schedule rests on whether Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is indeed on board with a tweaked bill. It also may hinge on when West Virginia Gov.
Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) planned for Thursday would affect the committee’s hearing schedule.
Faced with continued inaction in the Senate on a broader package of middle-class tax extensions and jobless benefits, House leaders have added to Tuesday’s schedule stand-alone bills restoring unemployment
But that schedule could be complicated by events related to Byrd’s death. Byrd died early Monday morning after a short hospital stay. He was 92.
Lowey also announced that she would schedule corruption-related oversight hearings after the July Fourth recess.
However, that schedule may change to accommodate events for the death of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)
Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) on Monday has scuttled the schedule for Senate Democrats and has made life even tougher for Majority Leader Harry Reid as the Nevadan struggles to complete financial reform and jobs
The “doc fix,” which would restore Medicare payment cuts that took effect June 18, was a last-minute addition to the House floor schedule Thursday afternoon and gained broad support from both sides
The “doc fix,” which would restore Medicare payment cuts that took effect Friday, was a last-minute addition to the House floor schedule, and the House began debating the measure late Thursday afternoon