Following Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) announcement this week that he will not hold a vote on oil spill legislation before the August recess, Democrats, Republicans and environmentalists alike said passing the legislation this year will be an uphill battle. Despite the odds, key Senate staffers continue to More…
A Senate aide tells TWI that Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) is considering whether to introduce today or tomorrow a bill on oil spill liability, though it is unclear whether Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) — who has been a key part of negotiations on a liability compromise — will sign More…
Sens. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) are still fine-tuning the details of a compromise on oil spill liability they hope will be incorporated into Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) oil spill response package.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is negotiating behind the scenes to come to a compromise on oil spill liability language that on-the-fence Democrats like Sens. Mary Landrieu (La.) and Mark Begich (Alaska), and maybe even a Republican or two, can endorse.
A Senate aide privy to the negotiations says Menendez is More…
A Senate aide says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) could file a motion to proceed on his energy and oil spill legislation as early as today, which would leave room for the first procedural vote on the bill to take place on Wednesday.
With House passage of broad oil spill response legislation late Friday, all eyes are on the Senate this week as Democrats fight to find the votes necessary to pass oil spill and energy legislation.
But, as I’ve noted here before, prospects don’t look good.
Partisan squabbling may sink legislation responding to the massive oil spill in the Gulf, considered must-pass by many in Congress. In both the House and the Senate, Democrats and Republicans are struggling to find a workable compromise.
The House is slated today to take up its broad oil spill response More…
Today, in Senate dysfunction: Republicans filibustered a long-embattled small-business bill — designed to create jobs, created with bipartisan input, and delayed for weeks now — to force Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the majority leader, to allow them to propose more amendments.
As I’ve reported, the piece of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) energy and oil spill response bill likely to gin up the most controversy is language disposing of the $75 million cap on oil companies’ economic liability in the case of a spill. Republicans oppose the proposal because More…
After a legislative year chock full of big accomplishments, The New York Times reports that Democrats are looking to go small in the lead-up to midterm elections this November:
Democrats will try to stave off electoral disaster in November with tools like these: electric-car batteries, free mammograms and loans
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