Senators Find Money in … Helium?
If you’re the Senate, apparently you can fund rural schools and the cleanup of old oil wells.
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If you’re the Senate, apparently you can fund rural schools and the cleanup of old oil wells.
If the House comprehensive bill fell apart, advocates were hoping to force Boehner to bring up a similar Senate bill (S 744), now pending on the floor in that chamber.
Harkin and other supporters are hoping to move legislation in the Senate first, then push for House action. Sen.
Senate and respected national organizations and groups that share my core conservative values. I’ve talked and prayed with my family. Their responses have been positive and encouraging.”
Feingold, a progressive Democrat who lost his seat in the wave election of 2010, once served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as the chairman of the Africa subcommittee.
Congress allowed Mueller to stay on the job until September, one year beyond his 10-year term, when Obama couldn’t find a replacement who might get confirmed at the height of his re-election campaign.
Democrats viewed the selection as a compromise between dueling picks from the party’s gubernatorial nominee, Barbara Buono, and state Senate President Stephen Sweeney.
He came to Capitol Hill as a Republican member of the House in 1993, and after serving one term he was elected to the Senate, where he served until 2001.
The state Senate passed the interim map last week, and an identical bill will move to the state House soon.
Next week, we’ll be watching to see whether Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell makes a rare appearance in his seat at the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Tom Cotton, R-Ark., runs for the Senate, his district went for the former Massachusetts governor with almost 62 percent as well.
He finished second in the open GOP primary for Senate last year. Maine Democrats also expect a crowded field.
Other Democrats echoed Duckworth, including Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin. His spokesman said via email that Durbin “isn’t going to get involved in the primary.” Rep. Danny K.
No Republican on House Agriculture signed the letter, and Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow of Michigan has dismissed past talk of a breakup.
Kwame Raoul has served in the state Senate since 2004, when he was appointed to fill the vacancy that President Barack Obama left after he won his bid for the U.S. Senate.
leaders plan to make floor debate and passage the main legislative news event in the House next week, knowing full well the legislation will never come close to seeing the light of day in the Democratic Senate
“The House of Representatives should be working on legislation to fix our economy, not wasting their time and our money re-fighting 40-year-old battles.”
Republicans are now on track to avoid a costly, high-profile primary in the South Dakota Senate race next year. Rep.
Senate Majority Whip Richard J.
Conservatives aren’t excited about a potential Noem Senate bid either.