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companies, wireless operators, satellite providers and new broadband entrants such as Google are free to invest in modern facilities as they see fit in order to give consumers the services they want without
Should local police be involved in enforcing the nation’s immigration laws? The answer to this question may seem obvious. After all, a law is a law.
Let me repeat that: the so-called ‘Schumer-Obama Plan’ is a plan to permanently hand the president a credit card without spending limits, and without lifting a finger to address the national debt,” McConnell
Each should be handled differently.
At a minimum, it would mean that senatorial nuclear winter won’t be setting in early this year because the Democrats were able to help the president put his stamp on the government without upending decades
Ryan told reporters that tax hikes aren’t going to be in the deal; Reid cited the GOP’s opposition to more tax hikes on the wealthy as a reason people should stop talking about cutting Social Security
“Everyone should understand this vote tonight is a very important vote.
And I just hope that it will be a signal to the entire Congress how we should be working closer together in a bipartisan fashion.”
For many wireless carriers, the auction is a rare opportunity to get their hands on choice “beachfront” spectrum in the 600 megahertz band, which should be ideal for the deployment of next-generation
Should that happen, leaders would likely face another choice: Will they commit to bringing measures to the floor that forgo, in the words of one GOP aide, “the obsession with getting to 218 Republican
“It’s certainly not achievable without revenues, in my view,” Hoyer told reporters at his weekly pen-and-pad briefing, “and we [Democrats] are for revenues.”
And it’s also possible to stay until the dogged end without so much as a friendly “don’t let the door hit you on the way out.” So ask yourself: How fundamental is your role to the re-election?
“When you look at the national party, there’s no one who wants to elect a Republican president who doesn’t think they should do this.
Virginia enacted a plan this year that is projected to bring in $5.9 billion for transportation projects over the next five years — without increasing the per-gallon gasoline tax.
Hill Navigator wouldn’t have a column without questions from people clamoring to get on Capitol Hill. But it’s an answer that never gets old, so we’ll give it another go. Q.
Given the fiscal mess our federal government is in, it should be abundantly clear that the private sector can far better manage this risk than could the taxpayer.
“The SNAP program is in jeopardy, which means children’s health is in jeopardy, and we should extend the ARRA-created benefits as well as to fully fund, not cut, the SNAP program,” Rep. Rush D.
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., threatened to object to a deal to get the government back fully up-and-running and raise the debt limit without consideration of the Vitter amendment, but there’s been no such agreement
But Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn of Texas expressed “grave concerns” about a nominee without significant experience in the law enforcement community.
“Eventually, drones may have the technical ability to make even lethal decisions autonomously: to respond to a programmed set of inputs, select a target and fire their weapons without a human reviewing