Defense Bill Showdown Has Leaders Scrambling
“They should be ashamed of themselves.— House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) dismissed the talk of terrorists getting the money as false and “demagogic.
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“They should be ashamed of themselves.— House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) dismissed the talk of terrorists getting the money as false and “demagogic.
But Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) dismissed the trigger as “a very bad idea,— saying health care reform would not pass the House without a substantial public plan.
Without effective adaptation, progress in overcoming poverty, such as by ensuring more girls receive basic education and stay in school longer, stands to be lost.
But perhaps the juicy novel should also be required reading for interns and new Hill staffers.
“We should not demagogue race,— he added.But Sessions did raise concerns with a 2001 speech by Sotomayor in which she said race and gender could help make a woman a better judge than a white man.
These countries have repeatedly said they will not jeopardize economic growth, and neither should we.
stresses that health care reform will help curb the deficit and expand coverage, moneyed opponents of Obama’s ideas appear to be opting for the argument that the new system will force people to go without
“The vast majority of Senate Democrats agree it should be closed.
dollars to continue to subsidize air service to an airport that has received approximately $150,000,000 in Federal funding, but has achieved no improvement in commercial service provided to the airport without
Critics who claw at the president’s credibility should unclench their fists, for their analysis must recognize the inherited policies from the previous president’s final 100 days and the potential yield
But as more gays are fired, more immigrants are deported and the genocide in Darfur rolls on without strong intervention from Obama, the liberal discontent with the new president is starting to grow
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Tuesday that the Senate would not provide money to close the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility without a plan for its inmates, and that
But his initial point is the one that should be well-taken by Congress and should lead to another kind of response.
Obama has already taken a host of actions without explicit Congressional approval — from guaranteeing the warranties of struggling automakers to announcing his plans to close the Guantánamo Bay,
“But you should not bring a can to a field of the Division A game.— Even without many rules, some elements of the league fell into the only-in-Washington category.
Without that linkage and the attendant sense of urgency it creates, Republicans would feel much more comfortable taking a more protectionist, anti-comprehensive reform stance, the aide said, particularly
interrogation practices and how to transfer or prosecute detainees once the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, military prison is shuttered, to whether more photos of alleged detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq should
Even without the actions that the federal government has already taken to provide corporate bailouts, there is little likelihood that Washington, D.C., could or will allow a default in the municipal bond
[IMGCAP(1)]In 2007, Wamp and Jackson led the effort to change the name of the CVC’s Great Hall to Emancipation Hall, convincing fellow lawmakers that the new building should recognize the slave laborers
one Congressional source, the president himself — were in touch with lawmakers about putting together a task force of Members and possibly others who would informally compile recommendations about what should