Democrats waged a multimillion-dollar ad campaign and lobbied hard for the bill but still came up 13 votes short of the two-thirds needed to pass.
If - as expected - the bill is ratified by parliament and by the hard-line Guardian Council, it will make Iran a member of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, which was created in 1999 and came into force in 2002.
After the Republicans won control of the Congress in 1994, then president Bill Clinton was hard-pressed to advance his domestic agenda.
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And just in case this did not add enough complexities to America's labyrinthine tax code or give away enough goodies to hard-pressed firms, the corporate bill packs in countless more.
"It is down to us to hammer out a new consensus on water affordability and I ask ministers to work with us to amend this bill and help hard-pressed families today, " she said.
During the contentious 2008 financial bailout bill -- commonly referred to as TARP -- McConnell and Reid worked hard to get a compromise bill passed despite tough opposition from both sides of the aisle.
We're pushing hard to pass an inclusive employee non-discrimination bill. (Applause.) For the first time ever, an administration official testified in Congress in favor of this law.
Getting a climate-change bill through Congress will be hard.
"Al Gore has shown weak leadership by standing by while his administration vetoed a bill that would help so many hard-working Americans and their families, " Bush campaign spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said in a Thursday afternoon statement.
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This would raise the federal share of spending to 25% after years of decline, which left the hard-pressed and increasingly grumpy provincial governments to pick up the bill.
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The Greater Houston Partnership, an alliance of hard-nosed businessmen that looms large locally, has worked well with Bill White, Houston's business-minded but green mayor, to support his clean-up of the city's air and water.
He and Independent Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman had worked hard to push a global climate crisis-premised 2010 carbon cap-and-trade bill, only to see its prospects for passage swept away in a Republican House cleaning.
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But it should not -- those issues that are -- make a deal extremely hard to get and probably impossible should not be a part of a partial-year funding bill.
If the Roberts court decides any of those cases in industry's favor, Congress will surely draw up a bill to reverse the damage--one that even McCain would have a hard time vetoing.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers from hard-hit states pilloried Mr Boehner for not holding the vote after the last-minute fiscal cliff bill.
Other hard-to-get congressmen will be rewarded with roads and bridges for their districts, opponents of the bill allege.
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This level of treatment could add up to a bill of many thousands of pounds per couple - a price that the NHS may find hard to stomach.
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