• The fact of the matter is Americans are rightfully upset by the dysfunction they see in Washington when you have, in particular, one House of Congress and one party within that House of Congress adamantly refusing to go along with a principle that is endorsed by a vast majority of the American people, including a majority of Republicans out in the country.

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  • From the perspective of Congress, House Report No 93-533 (Oct. 2, 1973) provides two particular positions worth repeating.

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  • And Democrats hope people will also focus on Starr's de facto messenger in Congress, House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

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  • In November 2009, Congress passed House Resolution 867 condemning the Goldstone report.

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  • Yet, throughout the final weeks, days and hours of the last Congress, House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor refused to budge.

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  • Washington (CNN) -- A week before his committee is scheduled to hold a vote on a resolution holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa told the Department of Justice Wednesday it still has a chance to produce materials about the failed "Fast and Furious" gun-running operation and avoid a public vote.

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  • Forced into a corner, Congress -- House Republicans acted finally with the rest of Congress to ensure that unemployment insurance was extended.

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  • Mr. Reid, noting that the House hadn't passed any bill during the current Congress, said House members were the ones with their behinds on the sidelines.

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  • But the real test will come in the obligatory negotiations between Republicans and Democrats, House and Senate, and Congress and the White House over many areas of disagreement in the budget.

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  • Documents released by the White House to Congress this week show Huang wrote the White House in February 1993, hoping to arrange a session between Clinton and Riady.

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  • Several people who have been on the calls say the White House hasn't pushed business leaders to lobby Congress on the White House's behalf.

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  • In the following eight years, the Republican controlled congress and white house created an enormous deficit.

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  • But four years ago Congress overcame White House opposition and enacted reforms halting baseless lawsuits concerning stocks.

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  • The teenagers delivered that message to members of Congress on the House Commerce Health and Environment subcommittee this week.

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  • Plus, these are state representatives, not the US congress or White House.

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  • For example, a shift to a more effective drug or service could be accomplished without an act of Congress or White House political support.

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  • Rather than attempt to pay the last of these bonds off, FDR got Congress to pass House Joint Resolution (HJR 192) in April of 1933.

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  • Even without that EPA rule, the industry is likely to be in for a rough time, regardless which party controls the Congress and White House.

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  • Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez sent a letter to key leaders of Congress, notably House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Cal.

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  • Several dozen members of Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, stood on the stage behind Bush as he signed the bill intended to fend off a possible recession.

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  • Nixon nominated, and Congress approved, House Minority Leader Gerald R.

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  • We need to return to a process that has Congress, the House and the Senate, working on budget proposals, the President submitting his budget, and compromise emerging from that process.

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  • White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles traveled to Capitol Hill Monday to meet with congressional leaders to try to gauge the mood of Congress, White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry said.

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  • He spoke to Congress in crowded House chamber.

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  • It is certainly important that health care, and particularly Medicare, be debated thoroughly during the Presidential campaign, as entitlement reform is one of the most pressing issues that the next Congress and White House administration will face.

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  • In Congress, the House Ways and Means Committee originates tax legislation and holds hearings on various tax related subjects as well as a markup in which a bill may be read (typically the members waive this step) and amendments are considered.

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  • As it might in Congress: The House leadership, under pressure from moderates and lawmakers in close races back home, promises a vote within a month on a disclosure measure more to its liking -- but it will include disclosure requirements for groups like labor unions and trial lawyers, which they know would be poison pills for Democrats.

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  • But we have seen in the past year-plus of very intense negotiations between the Senate and the House, between Republicans and Democrats, between leaders in Congress and the White House, that the only way to accomplish, in an environment like this, significant compromise that can be passed out of this Congress and signed into law by the President is to take an approach that is balanced.

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  • Given that filing, included in Starr's initial report to Congress, the White House asserts that Starr was well aware his investigation was proceeding toward a report to Congress when he filed court papers playing down the prospect of impeachment.

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  • Famously hard-hitting and foul-mouthed, Mr Emanuel, 50, is a former Chicago congressman, White House aide and investment banker, whom Mr Obama selected for his connections in the Democratic congress, his White House experience and, perhaps, for his aggressive manner.

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