House Leaders Bullish on Vote
We should be moving with an urgency to keep folks in their homes, Scott said.
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We should be moving with an urgency to keep folks in their homes, Scott said.
Corker said he now feels things are thawing in the House, and that the Senates decision should help that process.
It should have happened this time as well. There are some admirable figures here.
Boehners Web site has seen a four-fold increase in traffic without any noticeable effect, Boehner spokesman Kevin Smith said.
A House Democratic leadership aide cautioned that Democrats would not add new provisions without firm assurances that House Republicans would add to their vote total.
McConnell said that because of the dire instability in the markets, the Senate should vote on the measure as soon as the House sends it over.
Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) rejected Reids unanimous consent request, arguing that the Democratic leadership was trying to steamroll over the GOP without seeking compromise.
If they ask us for a reasonable number of votes, we should be able to, the aide said.
The head of the Republican Study Committee said Friday that it was ludicrous to blame House Republicans for holding up the $700 billion bailout package as Democrats can pass the bill without GOP support
John McCain (R-Ariz.) continued to spar over whether the presidential candidate should have suspended his campaign to deal with turmoil in the financial markets.
Legislating energy policy should not be as partisan an issue as this months votes might imply and should lend itself to working out compromises across the aisle.
McCain and Obama each zeroed in on executive pay, saying chief executive officers of Wall Street firms who are helped under the plan should not benefit or be rewarded.
But Republicans read the language as exactly what theyve been asking for a change to the rules that allows Members to immediately use YouTube and other sites, without waiting for a pre-approved list
The fate of a rescue package for the nations faltering financial system tottered Thursday as House Republicans balked at a House-Senate deal and a White House meeting ended without resolution.
. He knows how to fight back and speak in simple terms without a 10-point plan, Forbes said.
The continuing resolution passed the House, 370-58, on Wednesday without a single challenge to the thousands of earmarks worth billions of dollars, infuriating government watchdogs and fiscal hawks
Merkley also is winning among both college graduates and those without a college degree, with his lead over Smith at 44 percent to 42 percent and 44 percent to 41 percent, respectively.
Tappening has called both campaigns without much response, so the group recently released a series of print ads (to be published in swing states come October) that feature silhouettes of the candidates
No student should have to make the choices that Michelle had to make.
Speaking to reporters after the Democrats weekly policy luncheon, Reid said he and his colleagues will not be rushed into sending a bill to the president without a full discussion of the benefits