However, the behavior of some House Republicans became an issue after revelations that some of them knew that former Rep. Mark Foley of Florida was sending lurid text messages to underage pages for months before it became public.
The three American soldiers on the cover of Time magazine's Person of the Year issue attended as guests of House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
On Friday, the full Illinois state House of Representatives took up the issue and voted to impeach the governor.
Despite worries that lawmakers still don't have the depth of knowledge on this complex issue to understand its implications, the House of Representatives is expected to pass a controversial and complex bill on Friday that would set the stage for the broadest overhaul of the U.S. patent system in more than 50 years.
It filed for a request to debate the issue in the House of Parliament.
Stephen Moseley will raise the issue in a House of Commons motion on Tuesday.
And local lawmaker Jon Ashworth pressed Justice Minister Chris Grayling on the issue in the House of Commons on Tuesday.
Lord Wakeham launched his attack on the plans as the House of Lords began to debate the issue fully for the first time.
And critics of this process think that both the White House and the Pentagon want to keep this issue out of the spotlight.
Dec. 16: Despite being briefed about the matter six months earlier, Lerner does not divulge the flagging of conservative groups when she and others from the IRS meet staff members of the House Ways and Means Committee to discuss the issue, according to the staff's timeline of events.
"Cutting through the smoke screen of objections, the overriding issue is that of the possible effect on house prices, " he said.
"I will seek the permission of the speaker of the lower house to raise the issue, " he said.
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Representatives of staff at The Range will meet with Baroness Royall, the Labour leader in the House of Lords, later to discuss the issue.
"We won't be forming a coalition with any of the London parties, but we will be looking at votes in the House of Commons and judging them on an issue-by-issue basis, " he said.
It is demonstrably false to allege that the customer was induced to sell some of his holdings in favor of a new issue based on assurances of quality from the employee of the brokerage house.
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That was the real issue for the White House because of its potential damage to union labor.
The House of Lords first defeated the government over the issue in March.
The White House is getting pressure from all sides of this issue.
Analysts say her majority of one in the 150-seat lower house of parliament will force Ms Gillard to negotiate issue-by-issue with the opposition Liberals.
Central to that bill--and others backed by the White House--is the concept of "guaranteed issue, " where everyone gets the same insurance quote, regardless of their medical history.
MPs debated the issue of Europe in the House of Commons and backed a motion by the Democratic Unionists commending Mr Cameron's use of the veto as a "vital means" of protecting the UK's interests by 278 votes to 200.
While I suspect Americans will reach their own conclusions as to who should bear the greatest responsibility for security failures, if such failures are found to have existed, the issue of what the White House knew versus what they told us can be expected to dominate the conversation.
The Class of 1998 posed for its official picture on the Capitol steps in the morning before a day of closed-door orientation sessions that ranged from a general introduction to politics to logistical issue like the House bell system, how to vote and the layout of the sprawling Capitol Hill complex.
Plaid Cymru MP, Mr Edwards, raised the issue at transport questions in the House of Commons on Thursday.
Here is a perfectly silly story on house flippers in the March 14, 2005 issue of Time magazine.
However, the new information on Monday and Tuesday continued a perception of a White House on the defensive over the issue.
Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich did not escape the issue's heat.
Same-sex marriage is not yet legal in the UK, but Prime Minister David Cameron has publicly backed it and the issue has been debated in the House of Commons.
Obama's rationale, that "our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable, " seems utterly irrelevant to the issue of why the proposed Cordoba House should be constructed at Ground Zero.
Economist Martin Feldstein, a former Reagan administration official who is said to be advising the White House on the issue, recently dismissed the idea of letting people collect unemployment benefits for a longer period.
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