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» Partisan rancor stalls forests bill, November 05, 2003 Republicans are accusing Senate Democrats of using "a new tool of obstruction" to stall legislation designed to prevent the kinds of wildfires that devastated Southern California last month...

» Senate Republicans Weighing New Tactics to Advance Bills to Conference, November 04, 2003 Escalating a partisan dispute, Senate Republicans said Tuesday they are weighing procedural tactics to override Democratic efforts to prevent two bills from advancing to House-Senate conferences...

» One Year Out: No Time To Waste on Election Reform Funding, November 03, 2003 One year ago on Oct. 29, President Bush signed the most sweeping electoral reform legislation into law since the Voting Rights Act of 1965...

» House Races - Hoyer: Dems Poised For Gains In '04 Election Environment, October 31, 2003 House Minority Whip Hoyer this afternoon predicted next year's elections would be less dominated by security issues than the 2002 elections, and Democrats could win the House in 2004 if they get the political wind Republicans received in 1994...

» Transportation - Democrats Reiterate Their Vow To Fight FAA Bill, October 30, 2003 House Democratic leaders and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee members today reiterated their vow to fight the FAA reauthorization bill when it comes to the floor.

» US Congress Resumes Negotiations On $60 Bln FAA Bill, October 30, 2003 WASHINGTON -- U.S. House and Senate negotiators reopened talks Wednesday on the four-year, $60 billion reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration...

» US House passes aviation bill as Democrats object, October 30, 2003 WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $60 billion aviation bill on Thursday after Democrats fought a losing battle to preserve a proposed ban on the expansion of air traffic privatization...

» As Congress Readies To Recess, GOP Agenda's Stuck In Neutral, October 29, 2003 It's not just Red Sox and Cubs fans who are shouting, "Wait till next year!" So are Republicans in Congress...

» Election Overhaul Sponsors Press Bush to Support Full Funding to States This Year, October 29, 2003 Sponsors of the 2002 election overhaul are pressuring President Bush to actively support their effort to get states all the money Congress promised to meet the law's new standards...

» Obey letter seeks deal with Regula, October 28, 2003 Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) sent a highly personal letter to his “friend” Rep. Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) Friday, offering to ease the tension over the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education spending bill...

» Transportation - Privatization Language Likely To Be Stripped From FAA Bill, October 28, 2003 The FAA reauthorization will likely be sent back to a House-Senate conference committee tonight, potentially paving the way for Republicans to strip language from the bill that allows privatization of some air traffic control workers...

» Senate approves additional $1 billion to overhaul election system, October 24, 2003 Intent on avoiding a repeat of the 2000 presidential election debacle, the Senate has added $1 billion to the president's request for funds to carry out improvements in the national voting system...

» Foes Hope to Block Bush Plan for Limiting Detailees in Congress, October 23, 2003 T wo area House members said yesterday they would offer an amendment to block the Bush administration from tightening control over government employees assigned to work in Congress...

» Locked Out of Conferences, Democrats Start to Retaliate, October 23, 2003 Democrats frustrated about being excluded from final negotiations on energy and Medicare legislation are striking back by blocking less prominent bills and accusing the GOP of abusing its majority power...

» Focus on ‘Home Front’, October 22, 2003 Seeking to score late-round political points as Republicans struggle to find an exit strategy, Congressional Democrats are mounting a four-week offensive to bring attention to what they say is the failure of President Bush and the GOP to address key domestic concerns.

» GOP Trying to Snuff Out Iraqi Loans Idea, October 22, 2003 The White House predicted Wednesday that a final $87 billion measure for Iraq and Afghanistan won't make the Iraqi rebuilding aid a loan, despite signs of continued support for the idea in Congress.

» Bait-and-Switch on Public Education, October 21, 2003 Congressional Republicans are nervous about a G.O.P. poll that shows them losing ground over education.

» Democrats Riled by GOP's Efforts To Cut Deals on Air Privatization, October 18, 2003 Nearly three months after House and Senate conferees hurriedly agreed to a four-year, $59.2 billion reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the legislation is still mired in a largely partisan dispute over privatization of airport control towers.

» House votes for Syria sanctions, October 16, 2003 The House voted yesterday to impose sanctions on Syria that would prohibit it from buying dual-use technology and that could restrict diplomatic and economic ties until the nation ends its weapons programs and ties to terrorism.

» House committee approves $87 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan, October 09, 2003 A House committee handed a victory to President Bush on Thursday by approving nearly $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan and fending off lawmakers who wanted Iraq to eventually repay some of the aid.

» Hoyer Decries Drug Bills' Deficiencies, October 09, 2003 Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) strode into the Richard R. Clark Senior Center in La Plata on Monday and told a room full of seniors that if they were hoping for a good prescription drug law from Congress, they were pretty much out of luck.

» Hoyer Looks To Omnibus For Election Reform Funds, October 08, 2003 House Minority Whip Hoyer said Tuesday election reform advocates are more likely to get additional funding in an FY04 omnibus spending bill than in the Iraq supplemental bill.

» Election Law Backers Hope Recall Opens Funding Window, October 06, 2003 With California's gubernatorial recall putting punch-card ballots and potential "hanging chads" back in the spotlight, the sponsors of last year's election overhaul law (PL 107-252) are trying to tack $1.86 billion for the initiative onto the Iraq spending bill the House begins work on this week.

» Employment - Dems Celebrate Rare Floor Victory In Vote On Overtime Rules, October 03, 2003 Republicans lost a rare floor battle Thursday, as the House voted 221-203 on a Democratic motion to instruct conferees working on the FY04 Labor-HHS spending bill to adopt Senate language that effectively would block a controversial administration proposal that critics say would cost millions of workers the right to overtime pay.

» Democrats call for independent probe of CIA leak, October 01, 2003 WASHINGTON - Reports that the White House leaked the name of a CIA operative -- the wife of an administration critic -- have sparked an intense, if predictable, furor on Capitol Hill: Democrats are demanding an independent investigation, while leading Republicans say the matter, though serious, is being overblown.

 

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