Between the Lines: Chandler Vulnerable as Map Impasse Ensues
Texas: Lack of New House Map Impedes Fundraising Can House candidates fundraise without a district? It certainly makes it more difficult.
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Texas: Lack of New House Map Impedes Fundraising Can House candidates fundraise without a district? It certainly makes it more difficult.
The whole thing should appear rather elegant and effortless, and the trick should belie all the everyday realities — and annoyances — that come with playing the game of this town on this Hill.
In both cases, the regulations were issued as “interim final” rules, which means the regulations were written and published without the benefit of public comments on proposed regulations.
The key is that Senators should try to treat contributors and noncontributors essentially the same.
But they’ll need to do that without creating uncomfortable daylight between the House Republican majority and the party’s eventual presidential nominee.
You would think that the deficit and national debt that many in Congress keep telling us are way too big would prompt a serious discussion about what should be done that has at least some prospect of actually
Obama, in his address, cited President Abraham Lincoln’s famous saying that “government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves and no more,” but his speech and administration
The president said the Senate should exempt nominations for judicial and “public service” positions from the filibuster, ending a current practice that allows individual Senators to put a hold on
“Yes, I may be old, but I am also old-fashioned, too, where I feel you should judge a man by his record and his word,” he said in a statement.
“The OPEN Act creates uniform and targeted online infringement policies that will help protect intellectual property rights — without threatening internet safety and the thriving internet marketplace
Cooper Chief intellectual property counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee Cooper’s position puts him at the center of the most consequential technology policy debate to bedevil Congress in years: What should
House and Senate staffers from both sides of the aisle will be working over the weekend to lay out what exactly the scope of the committee should be.
“Behind the scenes, their offer should represent the nearly done map,” one Florida Republican official told Roll Call.
“Higher education can’t be a luxury — it’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.”
The Senate is perfectly within its constitutional rights and framework to reject a presidential nominee for whatever reasons a majority might have, but to quash nominees without even a chance at a vote
“If the president really believes that ‘We can’t wait,’ as he says about American job creation, he should immediately reverse his Keystone XL decision.”
The lawyer who a decade ago advised Newt Gingrich on how to engage in advocacy without officially becoming a “lobbyist” is now working to close the loopholes that enable the former Speaker and other Members
Now, we can’t, so the dollars we have should be devoted to those who need them most.
The heart of Obama’s argument is that the middle class is in danger of slipping away, and that he needs to act — with or without Congress — to help give them a fair shake.
On the Senate floor, Grassley said that President Barack Obama’s recent recess appointments are “a matter of concern to my Republican colleagues, as it should be for all Senators; we must consider