Bill Bradley (D-NJ), Dennis DeConcini (D-NM), Pat Leahy (D-VT), Malcolm Wallop (R-WY), Bill Cohen (R-ME) and Thad Cochran (R-MS) and Reps.
On February 13, Assembly member Bill Quirk (D-Hayward), a freshman state lawmaker elected in November 2012, introduced a bill ( AB 284) that requires the state to plan for carbon reductions through 2050.
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Hillary Clinton (D-NY), his archrival for the Democratic nomination, is his choice for secretary of state, Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) for commerce secretary and New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner for secretary of the Treasury.
Grassley, who crafted the bill with the committee's ranking Democrat, Max Baucus, D-Montana, reminded his colleagues their bill reflects an evenly divided Senate where neither party's legislation can pass intact.
Rep. John Conyers (D- Michigan) sponsored the bill on April 8, 1968, 44 years ago.
Dianne Feinstein, D-California, introduced a bill that would ban some assault rifles, semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said the bill was necessitated by the poor judgment shown by firms receiving bailout money.
Last May, a bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Jim Matheson (D-Utah) introduced a bill that would lower the corporate tax rate to 5.25 percent for repatriated profits.
Representative Marion Berry (D-Ark.) has a bill to impose federal price controls on prescription drugs through Medicare.
Her boss, Aging Committee Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) has introduced a bill (S 159) that takes some steps in that direction.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had promised the bill would be on the president's desk by the end of the week.
But Rep. Bill Keating, D-Massachusetts, said two undetonated devices were found.
Bill Nelson, D-Florida, has proposed Florida Democrats get a chance to vote again using mail-in ballot, saying a full primary using regular voting machines would be prohibitively expensive.
John Breaux (D-Louisiana) and Rep. Bill Thomas (R-California) said their plan offers "no significant" changes from earlier versions except that it addresses "a number of adjustments" other commission members wanted.
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) wants to change that.
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Rep. Bill Richardson, D-New Mexico, plans to arrive in North Korea on Sunday to meet with the Pyongyang government on issues including peace with South Korea, missing American soldiers, and the food shortage in North Korea.
Bill Nelson, D-Florida, who was among those briefed, told CNN there has been no evidence discovered since the start of the war in Iraq that suggests Speicher is still alive, but that he believes Speicher may be alive based on intelligence gathered before the war.
Critical mass seems to be growing for serious patent reform legislation in the U.S. At the CES Innovation Policy Summit, the best-attended session so far featured Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), who is co-sponsoring a bill which would severely limit the ability of holding companies to use the patent system to extort settlements, especially in the highly-litigated information technology sector.
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"We're closer than we've ever been, " said Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Massachusetts, one of the authors of a House bill that mirrors the McCain-Feingold legislation passed by the Senate in April.
Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, from the stimulus bill as long as Republicans allow Democrats to bring it up in the Defense Appropriations bill.
In the meantime, a California lawmaker, State Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Los Angeles) introduced California Senate Bill 323, also known as the Youth Equality Act.
The attorney is also looking to Congress, where Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has sponsored a bill to clarify that the OPA doesn't preclude state suits over oil spills.
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) introduced a similar bill that would grant both state insurance regulators and the federal Department of Health and Human Services the authority to block rate increases.
Peers were pretty annoyed when this device was deployed against changes they'd made to the Welfare Reform Bill - but those had implications for hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money.
"The health bill that will move forward today is actually a bill about life, " said Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), a staunch abortion opponent who became a big supporter of the bill.
The author of the train-and-equip gambit, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), knows how to write policy changes into a military-spending bill.
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