…Mayor De Blasio's expected announcement today of a progressive "Contract with America," characterizing it as an effort to exert leftward pressure on Clinton. With a procedural vote set in the Senate later today on fast-track authority on trade…
…Supreme Court’s health care decision, but a North Carolina congressman regained control of his subcommittee after losing it one week ago as punishment for crossing party leaders on a procedural vote related to trade. Under pressure from conservative members…
…people inside the beltway and outside the beltway want." But ironically, the procedural move also contradicts what Republicans wanted from Democrats throughout the health care debate. When the House first passed reform in November 2009 and then again in March…
…3,000 panel decisions and authored roughly 400 opinions, expertly handling difficult issues of constitutional law, complicated procedural matters, and lawsuits involving complex business organizations. In her years on the bench, Judge Sotomayor has earned acclaim from legal scholars and…
…five Democrats are making the demand in a letter dated Wednesday to the committee chairman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina. Led by Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the Democrats write that the panel's deposition procedures, as adopted by the House…
…senators sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, threatening to use “all procedural means necessary” to prevent Obama from following through with his promise to “lawlessly grant amnesty.” Cruz, who will likely be the bane of Mitch McConnell…
…to Mrs. Clinton circumvented the elaborate procedures established by the federal government to ensure that high-level officials are provided with vetted assessments of available intelligence. Former intelligence officials said that it was not uncommon for top officials, including secretaries…
…force quickly became the subject of a federal lawsuit, which the White House ultimately won years later. An initial procedural ruling could have slowed the task force or impeded its work, however, leading to an internal debate about whether to…
…Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), whose procedural maneuvers prevented the Senate from renewing the bill in its entirety, declared in a press release that "tonight begins the process of ending bulk collection" of data for mass surveillance. Paul's efforts…
…Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and the panel’s top Democrat, Ben Cardin of Maryland, withstood two weeks of procedural machinations before passing easily Thursday, with only Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) opposed. Senators said the…
…of both parties swore that this would not be the final word, that they would find a face-saving exit from the arcane procedural conflict that Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) is using as a fig leaf…
…be used to build nuclear weapons, signing a piece of paper is not enough. Internal operating procedures and external inspection mechanisms are an integral component of any agreement resolving or managing a conflict. Without exception. But it is only fitting…
…Commerce Department’s collaboration with White House Deputy Counsel Mills on these matters was, in my experience, highly irregular and at variance with normal procedures. · At the same time, a federal judge ruled that Mills “failed miserably” to take proper…
…bill. Yes. Back in 2003, McCain could have tried to block the project through an amendment or other procedural means, but he didn't. And *McCain ultimately voted for the spending bill with the bear DNA study funding in tact…
…in a television ad that they were under investigation by the country prosecutor, when in reality, it was a “procedural follow-up.” After easily beating them in the race for a freeholder position, Christie, in his court-ordered mea culpa…
…Patriot Act, Mr. Paul’s objections would prevent the chamber from skipping time-consuming procedural steps ahead of the midnight deadline. “Tomorrow, I will force the expiration of the NSA illegal spy program,” Mr. Paul said in a statement Saturday. …
…enforcement, and want to create a citizenship track for unauthorized immigrants. Republicans oppose both aims, but have been able to muddle that fact using vague procedural language. Generally speaking, it’s not the liberalization of immigration law they oppose, but…
…executive director. "It wouldn't be a smart move for him." Sanders would encounter "substantial procedural and legal hurdles" to accessing the ballot if he ran as an independent in the Democratic primaries or in the general election, said Tad…
…to try again in a rare Sunday session. Administration officials said later that they had to start the lengthy procedure of winding down the counter-terrorism program in anticipation that Congress failed to act and a full shutdown was required…
…connected fundraisers – including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s former adviser and veteran fundraiser Brian Wolff – and streamlining its internal financial procedures to increase transparency after a nasty internal spat spilled into public view earlier this year. In a shake-up…
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