After the provision won a major vote in the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this evening, the House voted tonight to include an amendment overturning the military’s 17-year-old ban on open gay service into the fiscal 2011 defense authorization bill. The vote was 234 in favor to 194 opposed, More…
Here’s an example of why LGBT activist groups who cheered the Obama administration’s acquiescence to a legislative push overturning the military’s ban on open gay service are girding up for a close fight.
Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), the powerful veteran legislator who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, came out More…
On the day Eric Massa resigned from the House, he refunded $112,000 in campaign donations, according to the Federal Election Commission. More than half of those refunds, $62,000, were returned to individual donors, and the rest went to political committees. The biggest refund recipients?
Nancy Pelosi — $7,000 (PAC and More…
Just out from the office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is this statement applauding President Obama’s move to expand offshore oil drilling:
Today’s announcement will help create jobs and strengthen our national security as we move away from foreign sources of oil. Andrews Air Force Base was a
In short, the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that the health care reconciliation bill moving through the upper chamber this week will have to go back to the House. The New York Times reports:
Senate Democrats had been hoping to defeat all of the amendments proposed by Republicans and
Democratic leaders pushing health care reform this year like to argue that a vast majority of the proposals represent uncontroversial changes backed by most Capitol Hill lawmakers. And while that might be true, it hasn’t prevented some sharp disagreements between House and Senate Democrats over a handful of high-profile reform More…
House Democratic leaders just ended a much-anticipated press conference to unveil the details of their health care reform bill. Trouble was, the details were few and far between.
Rather than lending many specifics about the changes to the Senate bill, party leaders stuck with talking points about the general need More…
Different week, different sales pitch from Democratic leaders about why heath care reform is worth supporting. The Washington Post’s Paul Kane reports:
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters Thursday that the legislation is “the largest deficit-reduction bill that members will have a chance to vote on”
…So says Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), citing (what else?) the snowy spell that hit the nation’s capital over the weekend, and is expected to dump as much as two additional feet beginning Tuesday.
To make up the lost time, Hoyer said, the House will be in session both Monday More…
With all eyes on the outcome of today’s shockingly close special Senate election in Massachusetts, Washington’s prognosticators are wondering what the Democrats will do on health care reform should GOP candidate Scott Brown steal the seat. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) offered two possibilities today, telling reporters that if More…
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