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Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) threw a significant monkey wrench into Reid’s plans to pass a one-month extension without offsets when they filed cloture on a fully paid-for GOP alternative following passage of the
Security threats against Members of Congress [are] not a partisan issue, and they should never be treated that way. To use such threats as political weapons is reprehensible.”
Students can’t learn what they’re not taught, and it is the painful truth that most students can graduate from college without ever having to take a survey course in American history or American government
The shortfall has caused Members to question whether the department is able to handle its own finances or whether that authority should be returned to Congress.
They are receiving e-mails from the Member’s political action committee fundraising firms without even a call from the firm, let alone the Member.
“They asked me whether I would sign on to the moratorium, and I said no, it doesn’t fit my philosophy because I think we should designate every penny that we spend,” he said.
“I’ve already said that no one defends that kind of behavior, and we should not have that kind of behavior,” Cantor told Roll Call. “We are a civil country, expecting civil discourse.
Susan Collins (R-Maine), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, also condemned Democrats on Tuesday for sending a list to the White House without Republican
Under the plan, McKiernan said retail locations would remain open on Saturdays, as would most sorting and logistics operations, but letter carriers would be benched for the weekend — or perhaps without
Premised on the notion that research focused primarily on broadband adoption — without considering the underlying factors that influence the behavior of potential users — fails to facilitate minority adoption
Boccieri said neither Obama nor Democrats need to try to “sell anything” at this point since their main priority should be debunking inaccurate claims made by Republicans about what the bill does
The Senate kicked off its debate on the health care reconciliation bill Tuesday, but without the tension that characterized its consideration of a health care overhaul in December and the spellbinding
Without those seats, Republicans would not have won the House in 1994.”
The retirees, freed of worry about their re-elections, should have an easier time coming aboard and giving leadership a much-needed, if narrow, cushion.
Supporters of the health care bill were ecstatic over the finding of the Congressional Budget Office, released last week, that the federal budget deficit will come in lower over the next 10 years should
But in the months since the initial vote, Ellsworth launched a Senate campaign, and last week he announced he was voting for the final passage of the bill without the same abortion-related language.
“And if that means voting all night, we should vote all night — and the next night and the next night, until they run out of energy.”
The reality is that we know the things we should look for, but we struggle to “operationalize the insights.” What’s the solution and what needs to be done?
On the other hand, an ephemeral structure could spark a broader public discussion about who and what should be commemorated, he said.
Quietly hidden amid debates over which agency should house a consumer financial protection agency is a simple consumer financial protection proposal.