Senate Closes In on Organizing Resolution Deal
But without first clearing the organizing resolution, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said Friday, “We can’t fully address the issues before us.”
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But without first clearing the organizing resolution, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said Friday, “We can’t fully address the issues before us.”
“Congress was so entirely focused on the accounting industry that the bill allowed tax lawyers to provide tax and other services without preapproval by the audit committee,” he said.
As is the tradition of the top two leaders in the majority party, DeLay will take a leave of absence from Appropriations, allowing him to retain his seniority status if he should want to rejoin
Felix Grucci (R) was ousted, should produce active interest.
“We should so something about this,” she said of a Senate probe of the NFL, before noting that another New York football team is still alive in the playoffs.
One GOP leadership aide said Hastert, as well as many rank-and-file Members, are fed up with the number of staffers milling about on the floor without any obvious need to be there.
Hoyer pointed to the GOP desire to reinstate the “Gephardt” rule, which allows Congress to increase the debt ceiling in the budget resolution without a separate vote.
“The funding should reflect the actual division here,” said Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), who will serve as the ranking member on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee this year.
McConnell said Frist is a remarkably quick study whom Democrats should fear.