Senate Leaders Eye Student Loan Deal
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has said that the lower rates could be applied retroactively should Congress fail to act before the deadline.
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Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has said that the lower rates could be applied retroactively should Congress fail to act before the deadline.
How many visitors can be accommodated in national parks without unacceptable crowding and associated impacts? Why are racial and ethnic minorities historically underrepresented in the national parks?
Kansas had been the only state without a new Congressional map. For months, Republicans squabbled in the state Legislature over a new map in what should have been a simple process.
Durbin acknowledged that an order wouldn’t come without risks. “You could get a political backlash with an executive order. … I’m sure there’s a calculation,” he said.
A: On the whole, I think of it as an attempt of an homage to this extraordinary woman who should have been seen by other women as … a groundbreaker.
“If Republicans want to be helpful … what they should be thinking about is, how do we help state and local governments, how do we help the construction industry,” Obama added.
Without earmarks to cajole lawmakers to support funding roads, rail, waterways and transit, leaders and lobbyists alike have faced an uphill battle in trying to sell the need for a big-spending highway
“Without the public, the Congress, and Representative Waters being able to review the findings included in this report, the integrity of the Committee’s process will further be called into question
Because the nonprofits and the advocacy groups are separate and distinct on paper, lawmakers were able to accept the trip invitations without running afoul of Congressional ethics rules.
And they’re hardly the only ones who engage in lobbying or help clients sort out their problems with the federal government without actually crossing the threshold of becoming a registered lobbyist
“Instead of recessing yet again, the House should remain at work and pass critical legislation that will create jobs for the middle class that will actually be signed into law.
Without reliable and affordable energy, manufacturers, who use one-third of the energy produced in the United States, will face obstacles in competing with our rivals abroad.
Congressional Democrats, on the other hand, are threading the needle between questioning whether laws were violated without making the specific accusations against the White House.
“Without a national repository [at Yucca], Hanford and other nuclear waste sites will be left in limbo,” Murray said in 2010. Sens.
There should be no indecision about it. The U.S. already recognizes that polar bears are a threatened species and grants them protections on U.S. soil.
But there are larger issues here that Congress really should address, ones that with some effort can avoid the usual partisan and ideological wars.
The offer, proposed in a letter to the White House, has gone five days without a response — and on Tuesday, Republicans were more than happy to pin the obstructionist label on the other party.
That was how Greenspan used to go on record without creating a political headache for himself or for the Fed because, once uttered, the phrase meant different things to different people Just
They say the 2009 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that Obama has been touting for three years doesn’t go far enough and the new bill is needed to allow workers to share salary information without threat of
Stabenow said the process of debating the bill could take two to three weeks, but some Democratic leadership aides said the Senate might take a week and a half on the legislation, with or without