Business, Labor Brace for Battle
“A lot of Members have signed onto this bill without really grasping what they’ve co-sponsored.
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“A lot of Members have signed onto this bill without really grasping what they’ve co-sponsored.
Committee, voting along party lines, set terms of debate that will prohibit any amendments to the resolution during the three-day debate, and provide the GOP with only a procedural motion to recommit without
According to the Congressional Budget Office, without reform they will nearly double to 15 percent of our GDP by 2030.
Ideally, any good plan should aim to meet the overarching goals of: allowing individuals to age in place; promoting the highest quality of life for people with long-term care needs; improving individuals
Without permanent repeal, the taxable rate on a $3 million inheritance would be up to 55 percent. When this farmer passes, he cannot simply pass on his farm to his children.
.): My attitude has been … that the first thing we should do is concentrate on the main budget — the base budget — because the first entitlement is debt service. It is obligatory.
They say consumers should be able to choose for themselves whether to eat the food. “If individuals choose not to eat a particular product, that’s their right.
And to all those shy lovebirds who want to send a package to their secret crushes without signing their names: Don’t bother.
Should he win the presidency or vice presidency in 2008, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) would appoint someone to fill the remainder of his term, which does not expire until January 2011.
Sometimes, a campaign committee needs to get involved in a primary, or in heading one off, while other times committees should let a primary play out, taking a hands-off approach.
As anyone who has followed Burton over the years should have known, he was playing golf.
Arguing that the executive branch has created an atmosphere of “high-level suspicion” in Congress, Specter said that Senate oversight on the U.S. attorneys issue should move full-steam ahead.
When the NBC/Wall Street Journal pollsters asked people to rank things that disturb them about what is happening in America, the top response (chosen by 35 percent) was the number of Americans without
Exactly what our presidential election campaigns should be and aren’t.
sent us all of theirs,” joked Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), acknowledging that Democrats have adopted the same stances once held by Republicans on the issue of how many and what amendments should
But Cole also attributed his policy to a belief that candidates who navigate a primary without help or anointing from Washington, D.C., insiders emerge battle-tested for the general election and in a better
Owen, a three-time loser in Kentucky elections over the past dozen years, let the filing deadline for the 2007 gubernatorial race pass this week without getting into the race.
“Care should be exercised in interpreting these results as the candidates are still not well known, only one candidate has started television advertising, and the sample size is small,” pollster
“As frontrunner candidates opt out, the current system acts as an incentive to their competitors to do the same or be crushed under superior fundraising without spending limits,” said Rep.
She believes the process should play out.” So far, just two House Members are running for the White House in 2008: Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) and Republican Rep.