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Bunning pushes for transparency in legislative process
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
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Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning�s push for greater transparency as lawmakers stitch together health care reform legislation is gaining momentum. Bunning and a growing group of Senate Republicans and moderate Democrats are pressing congressional leadership this...
Tags: obama, health care reform, health care, Senate GOP, Barack Obama, Conservative Senate Republicans, Washington, Senate Finance, Congressional Budget Office
Senate GOP leaders boycott state budget talks
Harrisburg :: PA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Just when it seemed like negotiations on a 2009-10 state budget couldn't get worse, they have. The six-member, bipartisan, House-Senate conference committee trying to craft a budget has scheduled a meeting here this afternoon, but the two Senate Republicans...
Tags: House-Senate, State House of Representatives, Ed Rendell, Senate GOP, Senate Democrats, Pennsylvania, table games, legislative leaders, making progress, Rendell Seeks
New pressure for Ensign ethics inquiry
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Ethics experts say the latest revelations about Sen. John Ensign’s affair with a former aide – including the senator’s efforts to help the mistress’ husband obtain lobbying work — will force the Senate Ethics Committee to begin a full-blown investigation...
Tags: John Ensign, Senate GOP, Mr. Ensign, Senate Ethics Committee, GOP Senate, Mitch McConnell, leader mitch, GOP Leader Tight-Lipped, Nevada Republican, senator ethics
GOP to block health nominees in Medicare spat
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The Senate's top Republicans say they won't allow President Barack Obama to fill health posts until his administration stops barring insurers from telling seniors about Democrats' plans to overhaul the health care system. Republicans wrote to Health and...
Tags: Senate GOP, Senate Republicans, gag order, Mitch McConnell, block health, Barack Obama, health nominees, Kathleen Sebelius, secretary kathleen, services secretary, Washington
Governor, lawmakers reach budget accord
Harrisburg :: PA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The 80th day was the charm for the long-delayed 2009-10 state budget. After several weeks of grueling negotiations and battles over spending priorities and revenue sources, Gov. Ed Rendell and General Assembly leaders last night announced a tentative...
Tags: Ed Rendell, budget deal, legislative leaders, Erik Arneson, Pennsylvania, Senate GOP, democratic governor, Democratic, Harrisburg
Governor says revenue estimates are way off
Harrisburg :: PA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Gov. Ed Rendell says there's no way he could sign a $27.9 billion bipartisan budget proposal because it's $1 billion out of balance and makes unacceptable reductions in education, health care and economic development programs. "What [legislative leaders]...
Tags: Ed Rendell, Rendell Salvages, Senate GOP, budget deal, Harrisburg
'Cash for clunkers' bill heads to Senate
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Senators returned to work Monday under pressure from the Obama administration to keep the popular "cash for clunkers" program alive, with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood saying over the weekend that the program could die as early as Tuesday without...
Tags: Senate GOP, Ford Motor Co., obama administration, Obama, Ray LaHood
GOP Tries to Slow Health Talks
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Republicans in both the House and Senate balk at many health-plan provisions.
Tags: Senate Finance Committee, Senate GOP, Senate Republican Conference, senator finance, House, health care, Max Baucus, GOP Tries, Chuck Grassley, Chuck Grassley
CBS 3 Philly (KYW): No Softening Stances As Pa. Senate Answers House
Harrisburg :: PA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Pa. (AP) ― Partisan fingerpointing intensified Monday as Pennsylvania state government's budget stalemate showed no sign of easing and state government employees face disappearing paychecks. Republicans and Democrats accused each other of refusing to...
Tags: Senate GOP
GOP accused of Sotomayor 'racial politics'
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor have played the race card in opposing the judge, a senior Democrat said Sunday. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy , D-Vt., appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," blasted GOP opponents for employing...
Tags: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate GOP, Mitch McConnell, Barack Obama, confirmation hearing, Republican Party, senator judiciary, judges sonia
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