Also Thursday, 36 moderate House Democrats threatened to vote against the current health care bill the chamber's leaders are drafting because they don't believe it will sufficiently reduce long-term health care costs.
Senators working on the bill gave the Chamber and the AFL-CIO the job of helping negotiate an agreement on the temporary worker issue.
For example, Pelosi said last month that there was "no way" she could pass a bill in the chamber without a public option.
Marc Freedman, executive director of labor policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said he hadn't yet seen the bill but that the Chamber has generally opposed Democrats' ideas for improving workplace safety.
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Those rules broke apart a package of adjustments to the Shays-Meehan bill opposed by the chamber's GOP leadership.
Bill Schneider of the Chamber of Commerce says the shenanigans during the election worried him because of the risk that another regime might take over.
And two Republican senators who oppose their own chamber's bill are blocking efforts to fix the glitch.
House Democrat George Miller of California says 223 House members, three of them Republicans, are cosponsors, enough for the bill to pass in that chamber.
Once each chamber passes a bill, a conference committee will work to merge the two measures into a single proposal that would have to win approval from both houses before going to Obama.
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As the debate unfolds, expect to see much wheeling and dealing before either chamber votes on a bill.
Asquith's bill would have created a two chamber parliament in Dublin, and substantially reduced the number of Irish MPs sitting in Westminster.
The New York Times bluntly reported on what's likely driving some businesses in the Northeast and West to break with cap-and-trade skeptics like the Chamber and sing the bill's praises.
But the overwhelming 80-14 vote masks the broad expectation that because of an unrelated fight over the Bush tax cuts, the small business bill is unlikely to pass the chamber.
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Federal representative of Brazil Paulo Teixeira spoke about the private OER Bill, currently before the Brazil Chamber of Deputies, which calls for government-funded educational resources to be made available as OERs.
While in that august chamber, he cosponsored a bill to make the estate tax permanent.
He's optimistic that each chamber can pass an energy bill and start the initial conversations about reconciling their differences before adjourning.
Lawmakers are also getting peppered with complaints about the bill from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers.
But when Republicans realized what they'd voted for, two-thirds of the chamber voted to recall the bill from the House for a revote.
Mr Park told MSPs he would bring forward a bill on the living wage to the chamber and called for the "political will" to legislate on the issue.
Mr Mackay agreed there the desire to have the living wage enshrined in the Sustainable Procurement Bill was felt almost completely across the chamber, but he said there must be legal certainty about securing this.
"We haven't seen the governor's proposal yet, but we do know that it's either an extreme measure to expand late-term abortion or an unnecessary and purely political maneuver, " said Kelly Cummings, spokeswoman for the Senate Republicans who share control of the chamber and can block a bill from a floor vote.
On the House side, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has insisted the chamber pass a health care reform bill that includes a public option.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supported the stimulus bill in early 2009.
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So - pressure groups and their supporters take note - there's not much point in a busy MP spending a morning in the chamber to dance attendance on a bill that won't even be discussed, let alone voted on.
Earlier this week, more than 50 trade associations sent members of Congress a letter urging them to pass the bill, from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Chemistry Council and the Edison Electric Institute to the National Association of Manufacturers, National Association Homebuilders, the American Bankers Association and the National Association of Realtors.
The Senate's Democratic leadership believes it now has enough Republican support to thwart a conservative attempt to stop the bill even being considered on the floor of the chamber.
Mr Scott told the chamber although there were misgivings about the bill, he hoped the government would address them with amendments at the next stage of the legislation's scrutiny.
Libous and the Senate Republicans who share control of the chamber haven't acted on a bill by the Assembly's Democratic majority for a moratorium on fracking as more studies are completed.
In August 2012, Mr Paul's son, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, co-sponsored a bill with Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden in the upper chamber which would exempt Hemp from the Controlled Substances Act.
But Daschle held firm, telling reporters in a hastily convened news conference afterward that the bill does not have enough votes in the upper chamber, and he had little intention of bringing it to the floor.
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