Results for “Senate Republicans”

…ense of whether this measure is a reliable guide to help forecast election results (see Figure 4). It is: In my paper “Senate Outlook” of October 2, 2014, | relied heavily on this Gallup question to arrive at my outlandish forecast of a seven seat gain for the Republicans in tha...

…stein reintroduced the victims' rights amendment. 70 A series of hearings were held that year in both the House and the Senate. 71 Kyl and Feinstein reintroduced the amendment the following year. 72 The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings 73 and passed the proposed amendment...

…t ceiling — the mid-term elections next November are not that far away, and voters do have memories! “Nuclear option.” Senate Democrats recently exercised the so-called “nuclear option,” so as to limit potential fillbusters on presidential executive and judicial nominees (other...

…gy,a4€ said Penny Nance, the chief executive of Concerned Women for America, a conservative group, referring to the top Senate Democrat. a€eThey have been more than fair to Professor Ford, and if they continue to capitulate to her lawyers, it will cost them in the November elect...

…s During the four previous years of Hensarling’s chairmanship, most of the committee’s major bills died quietly in the Senate, such as efforts to repeal much of Dodd-Frank (the CHOICE Act), impose substantial reforms upon the Fed, restructure the CFPB and strip the FSOC of vario...

Unsurprisingly, Democrats expressed more pleasure from reading about Bush’s bicycle accident, whereas Republicans were more joyful over Kerry’s bizarre space suit. Surprisingly, Democrats also expressed pleasure from reading about the economic downturn, and more pleasure than the...

… “fiscal in nature,” meaning they can be moved quickly through a budget maneuver that requires a simple majority in the Senate and House. Use of “Budget Reconciliation” to enact legislation involves a two-step process. First, both Chambers of Congress need to pass a concurrent B...

… completed first — and it was a mistake to tackle this before tax reform. Obamacare difficult with only 52 seats in the Senate but Ryan has gone too far to back away from ACA and refocus on tax reform as a priority. McConnell's ACA target is mid-April and then they can start to f...

…very major questions about the role of government,” said G. William Hoagland, a former Republican staff director of the Senate Budget Committee. “This is going to be a very fundamental clash of ideologies.” The Democratic and Republican Parties have their own internal tensions t...

…le Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs C The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy, Chairman, Senate Committee on the Judiciary The Honorable Arlen Specter, Ranking Member, Senate Committee on the Judiciary The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman, Sen...

… various vendors millions of dollars. The Waste Management Authority’s inability to pay vendors has been a topic during Senate testimony over the years. Steve Aubin, who was interim executive director of the Waste Management Authority for most of 2016, against him, and said he we...

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…will likely lose seats in the House overall, but retain a majority; we also expect them to win a narrow majority in the Senate. Obama will likely retain the White House. Such an electoral outcome would confirm the existing gridlock between Republicans and Democrats. e Against th...