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The Posts Greg Sargent wrote last week, The GOP mess on Homeland Security funding is only going to get crazier: The New York Times has a good overview of the ways House and Senate Republicans are now attacking��.
Could Our Own Fear Of Death Be Affecting The Way We Treat Animals?
But authors of a new paper would disagree. Theres basically just one area in which things are getting better, and thats with homeless pets, says Michael Mountain, a leader in the no-kill movement. In every other area we know of -- factory farming, .
These States Are Actually Considering Ways To Make Voting More Convenient
WASHINGTON -- Novembers midterm election meant grappling with new voter identification requirements, cutbacks to early voting and the elimination of same-day registration and out-of-precinct voting in several states, but advocates are cautiously.
Obama vows to use executive action on immigration before new GOP.
���Im going to do what I can do through executive action. Its not going to be everything that needs to get done and it will take time to put it in place. In the interim, the minute they pass a bill that address the problems with immigration reform, I.
Senate OKs Funding For Homeland Security; House Has.
Both the House and Senate are holding votes Friday on bills to fund the DHS, and theres a chance the Senate might approve the Houses new proposal of a three-week funding extension, to avoid a shutdown.. Just a day before the DHS was set to run out of money (at midnight tonight), Republicans in the Senate had come to terms with the need for a clean bill to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, one that doesnt require changes to the executive��.
Nancy Pelosi flexes muscle in closed budget meeting
The House is getting ready to fund most of the government until September 2015 while extending Homeland Security funding only until February. Speaker John. Nita Lowey of New York and Chairman Hal Rogers of Kentucky ��� are wading through dozens of.
House Passes One-Week Funding Extension for Homeland Security
���The D.H.S. funding fight is the first test of the new Republican Congress and so far, theyre failing,��� said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York. The fight over the homeland security funding ��� coupled with a separate revolt by House .
John Boehner Is Cooking Up A Plan To Avoid Shutdown And Take A Shot At.
House Republicans will meet on Tuesday after a 10-day Thanksgiving break to discuss their response, including a leading option for Boehner that would fund most government agencies through September 2015, with only a short-term extension for the.
Senate OKs bill to fund Homeland Security for one week
It came a few hours after the House, in a surprise move, rejected a bill to grant the department a three-week extension. Republicans objected to the measure for failing to roll back President Barack Obamas immigration policies and Democrats opposed it.
GOP Stalled in Effort to Rollback Immigration Action.
���House and Senate Republicans spent much of this week trying to publicly blame Democrats for blocking an extension of Homeland Security Department funding, which is set to expire in two weeks,��� the Wall Street Journal reports.. They funded the Iraq war. Can you tell me a time when Democrats took any provision hostage in order to get another one passed (I am not talking about horse trading. I am talking akin to what Republicans are doing now.) I cant think of��.
Last-ditch effort for Homeland Security funding; shutdown.
WASHINGTON ��� House Republican leaders failed to muster the votes to pass a stopgap measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security for three weeks, leaving the agency in jeopardy of a partial shutdown Friday night. The Senate responded late Friday by passing ��� by voice vote ��� a one-week extension of funding. Senate leaders sent that bill to the House after 8 p.m. Friday in a last-ditch. Putin Foe Is Shot in the Shadow of the Kremlin ��� New York Times��.
De Blasio, Biden to speak at slain NYPD officer Rafael Ramos funeral
NEW YORK ��� Thousands of people were expected to attend the funeral of a New York City police officer shot to death along with his partner one week ago in a brazen daylight ambush that shook the city and put an end to large-scale local protests.
Senate passes one-week extension for Homeland Security.
The Senate on Friday approved a one-week stopgap funding bill to avert a partial shutdown at midnight of the U.S. domestic security agency, leaving it up to the House of Representatives to either approve the bill or let the shutdown go ahead... New Stories. N. Carolina officials: Sex between lobbyists and lawmakers has no monetary value. 0. House passes one-week funding extension for Homeland Security, averting shutdown. 0. Ex-New York Times executive��.
House passes one-week funding extension for Homeland.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a one-week funding extension for the Department of Homeland Security late on Friday, in time to avert a partial shutdown for the agency at midnight. The two-thirds majority vote,��.
Homeland Security to increase security at some federal buildings
WASHINGTON ��� The Homeland Security Department says security will be increased at federal government buildings in Washington and other cities. Secretary Jeh Johnson announced the move Tuesday, one week after a gunman in Ottawa shot a soldier .
Feds unemployment benefits made job recession worse: Study
If you pay people not to work, they wont work ��� and cutting off their payments sends them scurrying back into the job market, according to new research by three academics who looked at the federal governments extended unemployment benefit program .
DHS funding fight threatens Secret Service, FEMA - David.
The way things are going in Congress, the Department of Homeland Security could be lucky if it gets just enough funding next week so it doesnt have to shut its doors. But in reality, a continuing resolution is just about the��.
Congress Approves One-Week Extension to Fund.
The House approved a one-week extension of funding for the Department of Homeland Security, sending the proposal to the White House and avoiding a partial DHS shutdown with just hours before the Friday night deadline. Earlier in the. House conservatives want to continue fighting to block Obamas actions on immigration and want to go to conference to work out differences between the House GOP bill and the Senate Bill passed bill earlier Friday. Implications��.
NASA investigating helmet water leak after spacewalk
U.S. House Minority leader calls on House to pass 1-week stopgap security agency funding bill.. (Reuters) - Two U.S. astronauts finished a 6-1/2-hour spacewalk on Wednesday to prepare parking spots for new commercial space taxis then discovered.
Supreme Court Asked To Hear Voter ID Case As Crucial Year For Voting Rights.
WASHINGTON -- A team of legal advocates for voting rights on Wednesday filed a petition to the Supreme Court asking it to hear a case concerning Wisconsins voter identification bill, which the court blocked ahead of Novembers midterm elections.
2015���s biggest days for politics: Salons handy calendar for the next year
But they, along with the powerful insurance industry, will clamor for the new Congress to pass a retroactive extension.. But it left out the funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, instead making that a continuing resolution at current.
House Republicans discuss plan to extend Homeland.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives were meeting on Thursday to discuss a three-week extension of funding that would avert a partial shutdown of the domestic security agency, a senior House Republican aide said.. deadline on Friday to pass a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which spearheads domestic counterterrorism operations, and a temporary extension of funding would give them more time to resolve their differences.
Face the Nation Transcripts December 14: McCain, Chambliss, and King
The reason why we are in the debacle were in is because we refused to pass any of the appropriations bills, most of the authorization bills, so you end up all jammed up at the end of the year. The reason.. I -- I sat all one week in the -- in the.
Pelosi plays hardball with Boehner
Congress passes one-week DHS fix. Boehner was handed a resounding defeat on the House floor Friday when his leadership team was unable to persuade 217 Republicans to back a three week stop gap funding bill to keep the Department of Homeland Security.
Bradley Stone cleared by Veterans Affairs doctor one week before murders.
���He met with his psychiatrist on December 8th at the Coatesville [Veterans Affairs Medical Center], and the provider noted that at the time of the evaluation, the veteran was without any suicidal or homicidal ideation,��� the VA statement said. A House.