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Under the plan, McKiernan said retail locations would remain open on Saturdays, as would most sorting and logistics operations, but letter carriers would be benched for the weekend — or perhaps without
Premised on the notion that research focused primarily on broadband adoption — without considering the underlying factors that influence the behavior of potential users — fails to facilitate minority adoption
Boccieri said neither Obama nor Democrats need to try to “sell anything” at this point since their main priority should be debunking inaccurate claims made by Republicans about what the bill does
The Senate kicked off its debate on the health care reconciliation bill Tuesday, but without the tension that characterized its consideration of a health care overhaul in December and the spellbinding
Without those seats, Republicans would not have won the House in 1994.”
The retirees, freed of worry about their re-elections, should have an easier time coming aboard and giving leadership a much-needed, if narrow, cushion.
Supporters of the health care bill were ecstatic over the finding of the Congressional Budget Office, released last week, that the federal budget deficit will come in lower over the next 10 years should
But in the months since the initial vote, Ellsworth launched a Senate campaign, and last week he announced he was voting for the final passage of the bill without the same abortion-related language.
“And if that means voting all night, we should vote all night — and the next night and the next night, until they run out of energy.”
The reality is that we know the things we should look for, but we struggle to “operationalize the insights.” What’s the solution and what needs to be done?
On the other hand, an ephemeral structure could spark a broader public discussion about who and what should be commemorated, he said.
Quietly hidden amid debates over which agency should house a consumer financial protection agency is a simple consumer financial protection proposal.
And I don’t think we should pretend otherwise,” Obama said. The key is that “you’ve got a good package on the substance,” the president said.
Lincoln’s full statement reads: “Arkansans and most Americans are demanding more accountability from Washington, not less, so I believe that any plan to approve major reform without actually
“So you’re saying that I should stay with Levi and not dump him for Jim Clyburn?” she asked HOH.
As Roll Call reported last week, the House ethics committee exonerated some of Congress’ most prolific earmarkers without — so far as anyone can tell — conducting a serious investigation of their possible
House Republicans had Democratic leaders tied in knots Tuesday trying to defend a special rule to enact the Senate’s health care bill without a separate vote, even as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisted
“Members of Congress should not be spending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on lavish, international trips when people across the country are struggling to make ends meet,” he said.
As the discussion that followed amply illustrated, the feeling was that the bill should include provisions that do much more than just offset its cost and that it should be defeated because it doesn’t.
Not since 1930 has control of the House flipped without the Senate flipping also.