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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the agreement an “unattainable mandate” and continued to blame the Obama administration for what the Kentucky Republican called “an assault on domestic
Unlike the beginning of Barack Obama’s presidency, lobbying registrations made available by the secretary of the Senate show almost no change from previous years in the number of clients lobbyists
Democrats look ahead Montana has a quirky political identity, with a Democratic governor and a split Senate delegation. But President Donald Trump won the state by 20 points last fall.
Kentucky Republican Rand Paul said he will use a resolution of disapproval to force the Senate to vote on the proposed deal.
The average approval rating was 76 percent, ranging from a low of 54 percent, given by Senate Republican staffers to their leaders in March 2016, to the 91 percent that Senate Democratic aides awarded
But Johnson said with the House-passed Republican health care bill looming in the Senate, Quist had a chance to talk more in terms of policy specifics than platitudes or opposition.
adviser to Jeb Bush during the 2016 presidential campaign, called the vice president “a loyal team player,” adding that he merely could be “laying the groundwork for a Trump-Pence ticket running for re-election
Ryan Zinke won re-election by 16 points, Montana’s Senate delegation is split, while the governor is a Democrat. (Zinke has since vacated the seat to serve as Interior Secretary.)
The GOP has an opportunity to expand its majority, since 10 of those Democrats are up for re-election in states that President Donald Trump won in November.
But while the state House passed $2.5 million to help fund the project for the next five years, the Senate never took up the bill.
Ron DeSantis (Florida’s 6th District) The three-term congressman, who backed out of a Senate campaign last year, is another Freedom Caucus member.
He asked McCarthy if there would need to be another vote on the bill and when it will be sent to the Senate.
Both are up for re-election in 2018, and are Democratic targets.
Dean Heller, the most vulnerable GOP senator up for re-election next year, has said over the past week that a independent prosecutor should be on the table if committees in the House and Senate “cannot
Ranking Member Elijah Cummings said he expected Comey to make just one appearance on Capitol Hill despite an invitation to appear before a Senate panel as well.
Senate leaders from both parties pressured their colleagues to back the Delta Queen exemption. The path to the Senate vote last month was cleared when Sen.
Comey declined an invitation from the Senate Intelligence Committee to testify before the panel in a closed meeting this week due to scheduling reasons, according to a spokesman.
During his initial campaign for the Senate, in 2010, Blumenthal conceded he had sometimes misrepresented his military record — declaring he had served “in Vietnam” when he had spent six years entirely
Many conservative outside groups are holding off, knowing that the legislation will change in the Senate.
If the House version passes the Senate as is, which many lawmakers say is unlikely in the next few months, it is not likely to give insurance companies enough time to come up with new plans that could