Senate Sets Record for Travel Costs
In the House, each committee publishes reports on its own and on no apparent schedule, making it much more difficult to assemble a full-year tally.
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In the House, each committee publishes reports on its own and on no apparent schedule, making it much more difficult to assemble a full-year tally.
It’s generally seen as the prerogative of the Majority Leader to set the schedule and file motions to end debate, or invoke cloture.
ABC News is reporting that 16 members of former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s senior campaign staff jumped ship because of the candidate’s “distraction from the campaign” and his wife Callista’s grip on the schedule
The move is extremely unusual in the Senate, where it is generally the prerogative of the Majority Leader to set the schedule.
“The biggest challenge is going to be working around the schedule of the Capitol building and Congress,” he said.
Although his bipartisan breakfasts — once attended by 40 Members — grew “harder and harder to schedule,” Alexander hasn’t given up his hope of bringing Democrats and Republicans together.
Cantor was a major architect of overhauling the chamber’s schedule to include more regular district work periods and in instituting strict time constraints for votes to avoid interruptions of committee
“One of the worst aspects of this job is you have no control over your schedule,” he said, adding that he left Portland at 4:30 a.m. to arrive in D.C. and didn’t plan to get home that night until
HOH doesn’t have a schedule for the event, but we are told there will be leis of flowers draped over statues and hula dancers. We will repeat that: Hula. Dancers. In. The. Capitol. Sunday.
Cantor went so far as to schedule the vote Tuesday evening after markets had closed.
The White House had previously announced the separate meetings with the Republican Conference and the Democratic Caucus, but it distributed a corrected schedule Sunday.
Thursday’s meeting largely dealt with setting up a schedule for the next six weeks, according to Kyl.
Meanwhile, the House did not vote Thursday on a proposal that would rework the nation’s unemployment insurance program after GOP leadership yanked the bill from the schedule Wednesday night.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Monday pledged to compete in every state on the GOP primary calendar, outlining as part of a full-court press a busy travel schedule that would blaze through the
Ayers said in an interview last month the project is on schedule.
every indication that the Republicans are moving their agenda forward rapidly, and it could be with recalls on the horizon they would want to move redistricting forward in advance of the traditional schedule
“There’s been some conversation and she’s seeing what her schedule will allow,” Buerkle spokeswoman Liza Lowery said Friday, noting that Buerkle, like most of the delegation, will be in New York
“Finding time to teach a class will always be a challenge because of the demands of the Congressional schedule, but this experience was terrific.”
’ biggest advantage on the debt ceiling may be that they control the House floor and, therefore, can stop the legislation needed to increase the amount the government may borrow simply by refusing to schedule
> Already this year, the Senate has had a week when it was in session when the only vote was on a nomination while the parties were locked in negotiations off-camera, and the chamber is again behind schedule