Wide-spread reports (including my own) have it that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will restrict floor amendments on his energy and oil spill response bill. But a source closely involved in efforts to revive a renewable energy standard tells TWI that efforts to craft an amendment on a More…
Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) suggestion that the climate bill being drafted by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) might be introduced as an amendment to a weaker energy-only bill has left Lieberman at a loss for words:
“If you force us to put it on as
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) tells The Hill that the landmark climate bill being drafted by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will likely be given a vote as an amendment to Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s (D-N.M.) energy-only bill. If Schumer’s right — and he’s very close to the More…
The House-Senate financial reform conference committee is gearing up, with the House due to name its members some time next week and the process due to be done by July 4. But the negotiations to merge the House and Senate versions of the financial regulation bill — under intense lobbying More…
The next amendments up for votes on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill? Check out the list below:
A bit of financial regulatory reform process math: Today, Senators are debating Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-Calif.) symbolic amendment ensuring that no taxpayer dollars go to further Wall Street bailouts as well as Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Sen. Richard Shelby’s (R-Ala.) agreement dropping the resolution authority fund from the More…
The Republicans tonight had one last chance to put a wrench in the Democrats’ plans to tweak the Senate health bill via reconciliation. It came in the form of something called a motion to recommit, which effectively represented the one GOP amendment allowed under the rules set for the health More…
The Michigan Messenger’s Todd Heywood reports:
While the state is coming down from its second temporary shut down in two years, ever increasing unemployment and unresolved budget issues, Michigan House Republicans this week introduced legislation to amend the state constitution to define life as beginning
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