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Maybe Sununu should wait until after the lame-duck session ends to start work on a full-on yeti look. Great Expectations. Rep.
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Maybe Sununu should wait until after the lame-duck session ends to start work on a full-on yeti look. Great Expectations. Rep.
For both sides, the Senate vote should theoretically come down to simple math: Democrats will have 58 seats in the Senate, plus one more if Specter repeats his June 2007 vote for cloture.
At a minimum, tax rates on capital gains and dividends should be maintained at their current levels. Lowering these tax rates should be given very serious consideration.
The disputed results then went back to New Hampshire, where it was decided there should be a do-over a new election in September 1975 that Durkin won relatively easily.
The potty-mouthed mottos were meant to call attention to the 2.6 billion people worldwide who live without toilets, which leads to disease, deaths and even poor education, the toilet-boosters say
> Once those elections have been resolved, however, Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will likely sit down to discuss the size of committees and how big of a majority Democrats should
Norbert Maday, a priest imprisoned on child molestation charges in Wisconsin who the archdiocese has since concluded is a threat to children and should remain in custody indefinitely.
Public-private partnerships allow federal, state and local governments that are struggling under mounting deficits to improve crumbling roads, bridges and even airports without using taxpayer money.
And decisions on energy will have a profound impact on the environment but is there a way to shrink our carbon footprint without shrinking our economic opportunities?
Congress should take the initial leadership in establishing the foundation for reform.
Thats as it should be.
elected leaders not to ignore what I believe is one of the most pressing long-term issues facing our economy and our environment: how we continue to secure the energy we will need for the next 100 years without
President Obama should both call for such bold stimulus at home, and then use that call to give him the standing to call for coordinated global stimulus of $2 trillion over the next couple of years.
It goes without saying that actions taken by the 111th Congress in the first half of 2009 may very well serve as Americas foundation for progress well into the next generation.
Some 240,000 tickets will be doled out to Members of Congress to give, without charge, to their constituents.
Most conservative lawmakers are against the pending bailout, arguing vociferously that the auto companies were mismanaged and short-sighted, and, therefore, should be allowed to fail.
Those without tickets will be able to stand on the National Mall but probably wont be able to see the new president in person.
Rick Perry (R) should accelerate in short order.
. And I think thats what we should be doing. As Conference chairman, Alexander is responsible for shaping the GOPs message on the Senate side.
But Boehner will end up heading a GOP struggling to rebuild and remain relevant without the White House and with fewer Members. In the days since the elections, Pelosi maneuvered to clear Rep.