Senate Democrats gave up on their goal of passing a slimmed-down energy bill before August recess.
The president urged lawmakers to pass a homeland security bill before the August recess.
Speaking in Guatemala on Monday, Bush said he hopes to have a comprehensive immigration reform bill passed by August.
The pension reform bill passed in August provides that beginning in 2008 you can roll money directly from a 401(k) to a Roth ira.
"It may persuade enough of them that they do need to be more moderate and incremental in the approach, and they may actually come up with a package that is even more popular than what would have otherwise been, had they tried to get the bill through before August, " he said.
Some 10-15% of businesses in the north could not meet their August wage bill.
The Senate is not expected to finish drafting its version of the Farm Bill until after the August recess.
Gephardt chastised the White House for aggressively pursuing moderate Republicans who have long supported the Norwood bill, portending political arguments if Republicans don't pass a bill before the long August recess.
Before long, the Employment Equity Bill, passed in August but not yet implemented, will force all but the smallest firms to submit annual reports to show that they are trying to make the racial and sexual composition of their workforce match that of the local population.
It wasn't included in the energy bill the House passed in August 2007, either.
Mr Bush personally lobbied Congress to pass the bill before leaving for the August break.
By contrast, between the beginning of Obamanomics with the passage of his stimulus bill in March 2009 and August, employment fell by 1.3 million.
While the government is now technically compelled to take action that will change Microsoft's business -- many think Jackson will seek to break the firm into a bunch of "Baby Bills" when he produces his "remedy" in August -- Bill Gates and his Redmond buddies are widely expected to appeal the decision, a process that could drag on for years.
Bush urged the Senate to pass energy legislation and to have a bill on his desk before the August recess.
Senate leaders want to bring their bill to a vote before the August recess, but are unlikely to muster enough support.
It began in May, with the announcement of a bipartisan deal between the White House and Congress, and ended in August when the tax bill and other key elements in the agreement were signed.
We released a statement before the House voted in August in support of this bill.
On April 9, Anna ends his fast after the committee is announced in parliament but declares his intention to start another indefinite fast if the bill is not passed in Parliament by August 16.
His goal: to get a bill through each house of Congress by the August recess.
Despite the recess, congressional negotiators are trying to reconcile that bill with a House version calling for an August withdrawal.
And so when Accenture's chief, Bill Green, called him one day in August 2006 to entice him into quitting Symantec to take a job at Accenture--maybe a post running India?
Some kind of bill is expected to be passed by the August recess--and the competing Finance Committee legislation is expected to circulate as early as next week. (Grassley said that his committee was working all weekend.) While there won't be a huge window of time for groups to debate the particulars, there will no doubt be some fierce fighting.
Bill Clinton bounced back from low approval ratings in August of both 1993 and 1994 to handily win re-election.
In August the Senate at last nudged forward its own bill, which would give the FDA more power and give industry more obligations.
Note that not all of the deficit increase derived from the tax bill: CBO projected a weaker economy than it had anticipated in August, which meant both lower revenues and higher spending over the next few years.
Last August, when few were watching, a Senate committee approved a bill that would extend a host of tax benefits and subsidies.
Jeffrey Sachs, of Harvard University, suggested it in The Economist last August, and it has won praise from, among others, Bill Clinton and the World Bank.
Before Katrina there was a division even among the ranks of Republican congressmen, with 24 of them in August voicing objection to inclusion of the ANWR provision in the budget bill.
On the issue of budget cuts, these are the product of a bipartisan bill, the Budget Control Act that was passed, as you know, in August.
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