Brakes Thrown on Iraq Fight
p> Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said repeatedly that he does not want to block a vote on an Iraq resolution, but that he will not allow a vote on the Democrats’ Iraq resolution without
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p> Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said repeatedly that he does not want to block a vote on an Iraq resolution, but that he will not allow a vote on the Democrats’ Iraq resolution without
As inconvenient and messy as it might be, we should count our blessings that it’s a choice we are allowed to make, and the administration should welcome and encourage this debate.
[IMGCAP(1)] Without listing exactly what he’d like to see go into such a capsule, Mica said that “there may be some history relating to the visitor center and to our contemporary times that should
We know that the actions of a few dishonest officials should not be representative of the entire state.” Not the Easiest Job.
But if a ‘no’ vote is the right vote in terms of national security, they should have the courage to make it.”
But on the most offensive aspect of grass-roots lobbying disclosure there is no confusion (albeit an apparent lack of understanding), for even Roll Call asserts that the House should “require professional
Bush should get U.S. troops out of Iraq and “take action” — unspecified — about “inequality,” Webb said. “If he does, we will join him. If he does not, we will be showing him the way.”
It is an example of being too clever by half — trying to do the right thing without doing it in the right way.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) held firm to their contention that Congress should send President Bush a clean minimum-wage bill, but Senior Chief Deputy
much money they are spending to drum up appeals to Congress — without chilling true grass-roots organization.
measure’s effective date was intended to ensure the bill’s constitutionality, conforming to the 27th Amendment, which prohibits Congress from changing the rate of pay for lawmakers currently in office without
Since Congressional Democrats and Bush are a lot closer to each other than Bush is to House Republicans, it should be easy for the White House and Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
In case your attention has been elsewhere in recent weeks, you should probably be aware that House Democrats pledged to complete a half-dozen high-profile pieces of legislation in the first 100