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“They had other events on their schedules or planes to catch.
If a minority feels intensely enough about something, its Members should be sleeping on cots in hallways and disrupting their schedules and lives to make its point. How to do that?
On Wednesday, the group launched Real Time Congress, an iPhone app that streams live floor updates, leadership documents and hearing schedules.
We’re not concerned with accommodating Christmas schedules, we’re concerned with a deeply flawed health care bill and runaway national debt.
On the Republican side, two candidates who had been quietly building their 2010 campaigns moved up their announcement schedules and formally entered the race Monday.
Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), have been forced to back out of events, rearrange their fundraising schedules or completely
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installation and design.Members also complained for months that CVC officials were controlling staff-led tours, curtailing a popular constituent service by requiring long training courses and new tour schedules
But it presents a particular inconvenience for those Members already in the thick of their 2010 campaign schedules. But Rep.
behind-the-scenes video they shot that showed committee Democrats leaving their meeting room through a back door 30 minutes after they canceled a hearing that the majority said conflicted with Members’ schedules
Classes are also held throughout the week to accommodate various schedules. Meander down to the “Taste of Georgetown— from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Aiding in that effort may have been that Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the Blue Dogs’ top ally in leadership, regularly communicates with Reid to coordinate floor schedules and discuss the direction
“With our busy schedules, it’s hard enough to get in a workout at the House gym.
Vacation schedules have prevented Senate leaders from holding a conference call to talk strategy, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has had individual phone conversations with his leadership
The recess e-mails, which will be sent out each Monday beginning today, will include key talking points, statistics, schedules and “best practices— tailored for each Member’s district, according to a memo
Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who chairs the panel, said McHugh must answer a series of written questions before he schedules a hearing.However, Levin predicted a smooth ride for McHugh, saying he would vote for
The alternatives in the past has been things like Cabinet Councils, awkward multi-agency committees that meet regularly or intermittently, with their success dependent as much on the schedules and personalities
Staffers currently get everything by e-mail, including talking points, schedules and committee reports. But DemCom allows each leadership office to post newsletters and memos in one place.
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When my kids were young, my wife or I did the pediatrician duty at ear infection or checkup time; as professionals, we could arrange our schedules to make it work.