Gephardt Questions Public Financing Reversals
Richard Gephardt (Mo.) has asked the Federal Election Commission to weigh in on whether a candidate may agree to participate in the system and later “opt out” without facing penalties.
Search the Roll Call archive by keyword, date, Congress, section, or tags.
Richard Gephardt (Mo.) has asked the Federal Election Commission to weigh in on whether a candidate may agree to participate in the system and later “opt out” without facing penalties.
That means a determined minority of 40 can hold up legislation (or nominations) indefinitely without ever stepping foot onto the Senate floor.
Others, like Mattioli himself, believe the focus should not narrow on such incidents.
members of the House Ways and Means Committee, was granted another review under a little-known and seldomly used procedure that allowed him to make his case behind closed doors with senior IRS officials without
Without directly naming Frist, Reid said he was witnessing “such amateur leadership,” the worst he’d seen in 21 years in Congress, repeating the phrase “rank, amateur leadership” a couple of times.
But with or without Fitzgerald in the race, this remains Democrats’ best pick-up opportunity of the cycle.
New Mexico Filing deadline: Feb. 10 Primary: June 1 House 1st district Incumbent: Heather Wilson (R) 4th term (55 percent) Outlook: Leans Republican Democrats feel they should
He should be able to hold this seat as long as he wants to.
He’ll have to work a little harder than he might like, but Gilchrest should coast in the primary, and there are no top-level Democrats on the horizon.
That’s especially impressive considering there are 535 would-be contributors who have vastly different ideas about how that story should be told.
“People can be more attentive, but for the chief to randomly, frankly without talking to me, to slow things down, is premature,” Ney said, and later added: “The Speaker of the House has told me
“Any contributions that have come in improperly, of course, should be returned,” Levin said during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last year. “That goes without saying.
Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), a longtime champion of campaign finance reform, described the current system as “antiquated” and said the Senate “should move up into the modern age.”
ALL has continually maintained that lobbyists and other frequent visitors should be treated differently from tourists when entering and transversing the Capitol and pointed out that reporters are
“A debate over foreign tax reform can wait; aid to U.S. manufacturers cannot,” they wrote, stressing the final bill should focus only on assisting U.S. manufacturers.
No profile of Braun’s long-shot presidential bid is complete without at least one reference to their erstwhile relationship.
That was the lesson Democrats should have learned from the last Congressional election, and the recent California recall only reinforced findings that voters want solutions to their problems, not excuses
entail making a determination as to whether bitter rivals who were both instrumental in the formation of the republic — Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson or Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton — should
Adding insult to injury, the doctor later made his way to the Senate floor and praised Wellstone without agreeing to a date for a vote on mental health parity.
taking in more in the third quarter than all but a handful of incumbents up in 2004, national Republicans are talking to potential opponents in New York and already considering their second-tier options should