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Only under “extreme circumstances” can Democrats filibuster a judicial nominee; and should the opposition violate its own agreement, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has already indicated
And so it should be.
“Chris is a person who sometimes leads with his heart, and he should,” Hastert said. “I don’t always agree with Chris, but he’s part of our system. He’s part of our team.”
If you step back, philosophically, you say, “How should we do this, what role should the federal government play, what role should the FCC play, what role should the market play?”
Broadband should offer Americans the freedom to use any application and any device to access whatever legal content they wish, but the network and its freedoms should be extended to all Americans.
As the telecommunication industries mature, we will seek to consistently deregulate on all sides without imposing old regulations on new entrants, until we can achieve the least point of regulation, and
Each of these advances promises to bring the benefits of competition and more choice to consumers, and each should be closely examined as Congress modernizes our communications laws.
Should an IP video application be forced to obtain a local franchise agreement in some effort to maintain parity with the cable model?
Without a doubt, inter-modal, facilities-based competition has taken root as voice, video and data are being delivered into homes and businesses over multiple technological platforms.
Also, it’s a fact of Senate life that virtually nothing important can get done without a measure of bipartisanship.
The president responded that he should do whatever his party leadership told him. Outside the meeting a few minutes later, a reporter asked Johnson if he’d given any advice to the new legislators.
“In the House, you can go through years without meeting your colleagues on the other side. You don’t think of them as human beings.”
Without a deadline, there would have been no deal.”
Coburn said it is possible to harvest stem cells without destroying embryos and would focus his efforts on amending the bill to promote this procedure.
“The guy went without ever playing in the major leagues and batted .300 his first time up,” Lehane said. “He needed to bat .400 to get the nomination.”
When Voinovich concluded that he could not in good faith make a favorable recommendation, Voinovich agreed to allow the nomination to be sent to the Senate floor without a recommendation.
Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) and Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.), the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the ethics committee, have been unable to reach an agreement on whether Hastings should be allowed
The House appropriations bill on energy and water, passed Tuesday by a 416-13 vote, took the Army Corps of Engineers to task for moving money between projects without informing Congress.
“The events of last night should be a shot across the president’s bow,” Schumer said of the agreement that kept the judicial filibuster intact.
Yes, Dean can and will do better, but he’s also raising money without the benefit of having his party in power at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.