The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism. The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism.. some of the compromises that had to be made to pass this thing, and... the largest federal. |
Fiddling while Rome burns - RenewAmerica
In his February budget? No. In his April 13 budget framework? No. During the debt-ceiling crisis? No. During or after the supercommittee deliberations? No. [It] is the Republicans who passed ��� through the House, the only branch of government they control ��� a real budget that cut $5.8 trillion of. Obamas February budget, which would have increased spending, was laughed out of the Senate, voted down 97 to 0.. Philadelphias finest need to set a better example
Senate approves budget, sends to Obama | FOX2now.com
The Senate voted 64-36 on Wednesday to send the compromise federal budget framework to President Barack Obama, who has signaled his support. Last week, the. While Wednesdays Senate vote was closer, nine Republicans joined the majority Democrats to provide the support needed to reach the required majority of at least 51 votes to pass. The plan.. Obama, Senate GOP to test new relationship over Keystone XL pipeline �� News �� Philadelphia Votes��.
Immigration plans effect on economy
The Senate passed a measure last year to fix the immigration system, but it stalled in the Republican-majority House that favored a step-by-step approach. The CBO estimated the Senate-backed reform would have added another 0.33 percent annually to .
Morning Briefings | Kaiser Health News
Governors Suit Over Hospital Financing And Medicaid Expansion; GOP Senators Slam Oversight Of State Exchange Spending; MNsure Chief Leaving For Think Tank Job. Marketplace; Paramedics Face Roadblocks In Efforts��.
6/21 Morning Buzz | PoliticsPA
GOP Reaches Budget Deal: Gov. Corbett and Republican legislative leaders agreed to a $27.656 billion budget framework Wednesday afternoon, about a $500 million increase from Corbetts original figure. Reports indicate��.
Senators Agree To Delay Committee Vote On Iran Bill
The announcement, which came after an intense lobbying push by Obama and administration officials, gives international negotiators more breathing room as they attempt to meet a late-March deadline for a framework. If passed by the Senate, the legislation would likely move quickly in the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold 245 seats, compared to just 188 Democrats... Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) holds a news conference on the budget on Jan.
Government Shutdown: Washington Deadlocked As.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner tried on Friday to squelch reports that he would ease the way to a debt ceiling increase, stressing that Republicans would continue to insist on budget cuts as a condition of raising the borrowing authority... Senate Passes Budget Deal. The Senate voted 83 to 16 in the first of two votes Wednesday night to reopen the federal government and raise the nations borrowing limit, hours before the Treasury Department faced the��.
Barack Obamas have-it-all budget - David Nather - POLITICO
And Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi and House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, in a joint statement, declared that ���a proposal that never balances is not a serious plan for Americas fiscal future.��� The budget.. Even though most Republicans have already been blasting the basic framework of the budget ��� suggesting its full of tax increases and will never fly with their side ��� they havent ruled out all hope of dealing with Obama. House Ways��.
House Defies Obama Administration In Energy Budget Bill.
The White House has already issued a blanket veto threat against all House spending bills, saying the House and Senate must work out a budgetary framework that better supports the nations needs. Specifically, it said in its veto threat that the energy and water bill. Senate Democrats passed a budget in March, unacceptable to Republicans, that calls for new taxes and spending cuts to replace sequestration. Democrats and the White House, meanwhile, oppose��.
Senate GOP passes budget framework
No Democrats voted for the budget resolution. President Obama has vowed to veto any funding bills that fall within the framework. And even as the budget passed, most Republicans acknowledged that it will be impossible to meet their own standards.
Senate Education Committee Unanimously Passes. - Blogs
In a calculated and largely fireworks-free markup of a bipartisan Elementary and Secondary Education Act rewrite, members of the U.S. Senate education committee approved the measure 22-0 Thursday amid much. The current legislative backlog includes an anti-human-trafficking bill, Loretta Lynchs nomination for U.S. Attorney General, a congressional response to the Iran nuclear framework, and a looming vote on a conferenced fiscal year 2016 budget.
House adopts compromise GOP budget targeting Obamacare
Instead, the House-Senate budget framework increases spending in the near term by padding war accounts by almost $40 billion next year. And Senate Republicans skittish over politically dangerous cuts to Medicare blocked a House move that called for .
Tea Party Patriots | News Briefing for Friday, May 1
As we talked about yesterday, the Republican-run state Senate wants to accept Medicaid expansion, bolster state finances, extend coverage to 850,000 low-income Floridians, and clear the way for another tax cut. The Republican-run.. ���Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) expressed confidence that House Republicans later Thursday would pass a GOP budget deal and the first of 12 annual spending bills, despite some last-minute hiccups. Action stalled earlier in the��.
Missouri Republicans aim to move budget quickly this week
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Kurt Schaefer. Majority Republican leadership in the Senate hopes to take the budget bills, which the Senate budget committee passed last week, and approve them by��.
House Republicans Pass Anti-Obamacare Budget
By David Lawder WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives passed the first joint House-Senate budget plan in six years on Thursday, a measure that aids the partys goal of dismantling President Barack Obama.. The White House also said Obamas advisers would recommend he veto any other spending bills based on the Republican budget framework because it keeps sequester spending caps in place. A protracted��.
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner Defies Party to Engage GOP.
Thirty-six senators from both parties signed a letter endorsing the Gang of Six framework, and many outside groups concerned with budget issues praised its direction, but the unveiling came too late and the Gangs approach was overtaken by the appointment of the... We passed the military barracks to the left where soldiers and civilians alike were frantically digging through the remains of a demolished brick wall under which people were begging for help. Just then��.
Friday, May 1, 2015 | Kaiser Health News
The Senate is expected to pass the combined budget next week.. Republicans also seek $430 billion worth of cuts to Medicare, though the joint framework drops the controversial plan from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)��.
Pa. House approves budget plan and sends it to the Senate
HARRISBURG - The state House on Wednesday approved a $29.1 billion spending plan for 2014-15 that will serve as the framework for final budget negotiations ahead of the Monday deadline. The GOP-crafted budget, which passed on a near-party-line .
House GOP Scrambling To Get Deal Done Before Senate.
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans appeared to be angling Friday to negotiate over reopening the government and easing budget sequestration, as well as making cuts to entitlement programs.. The Associated Press reported that House GOP leaders were offering a framework to not just pass a short-term increase in the nations $16.7 trillion debt limit, but to end the 11-day government shutdown, cut entitlement programs and make changes to Obamacare.
Bad Astronomy - Slate Magazine
I wrote up an explanation of these techniques for my biweekly column on Sen.com. Note: The blog is subscription only, but... As I wrote this morning, Republicans on the House Committee for Science, Space, and Technology passed a nakedly partisan budget authorization bill for NASA that drastically and brutally slashes hundreds of millions of dollars from NASAs Earth Science Division, which studies how climate change is affecting our planet. Charles Bolden, NASA administrator,��.