Tough Terrain for Senate Democrats
However, one Republican’s recent performance here should only encourage the GOP.
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However, one Republican’s recent performance here should only encourage the GOP.
The lowest point ever for the ethics process came in 2005, when a Republican-led Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, as the panel was then known, did its job without regard to partisanship
“I think we should put everything aside, put it in legislative language and tie it to the debt ceiling,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said. “This is a monumental achievement of statesmanship.”
Not that the sight of a woman’s limbs should send anyone into Victorian-era swoons.
Obama also said he could not support a $2.4 trillion package consisting solely of cuts without revenues because it would cut unacceptably into domestic programs upon which people rely.
Any proposals designed to reduce the number of federal workers without a corresponding reduction in federal agency mandates will only increase the number of contract employees that agencies will
deciding what appropriate spending levels for the year should be,” Corker said.
Yes, Republicans ostensibly are seeking to cut the deficit without increasing taxes on anyone, making it appear as if they are motivated by finances.
He is late arriving to the idea that those programs should be “on the table.”
Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who is up for re-election next year, said the business community should air some television ads of its own on what will happen without a debt limit increase.
We don’t believe we should be raising taxes,” the Virginia Republican said during his weekly meeting with reporters.
We don’t believe we should be raising taxes,” Cantor said during his weekly meeting with reporters.
Asked about Boehner’s announcement, Geithner said, “We know this is very hard to do, but they should not walk away now from trying to do something good for the country.”
“Despite good-faith efforts to find common ground, the White House will not pursue a bigger debt reduction agreement without tax hikes,” Boehner said in a statement.
In an interview on CSPAN’s Newsmakers program, scheduled to air Sunday morning, the Ohio Republican bluntly warns that without a balanced budget vote, he and more than 30 of his fellow conservatives
Earlier this week, Obama floated a Social Security reform trial balloon to the media without giving an advanced warning to Congressional Democrats, specifically Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev
Cantor said any revenue from closing loopholes should go toward cutting other taxes, not shrinking the deficit.
Listen, we’re not for any proposal that increases taxes, and any type of discussion should be coupled with offsetting tax cuts somewhere else.”
It doesn’t specify which programs should be cut, but it requires that everything, including military spending, be on the table. “What we do is force Congress to have a process,” he explained.
Republicans successfully argued in a lower court that without a primary, the parties’ central committees should have the power to nominate a single candidate.