Senators Richard Shelby (R-AL), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) are accompanying Senate Majority Leader Reid on the trip.
The effort, led by senators Mike Enzi (R-WY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), could finally resolve what has been an increasingly ugly battle among on-line mega-retailers such as Amazon.com, big box stores such as Best Buy, local Main Street retailers, and state tax collectors.
The Gulf Security and Iran Sanctions Enforcement Act, recently introduced by Representatives Ron Klein (D-FL) and Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Ben Cardin (D-MD), requires companies bidding on these energy leases to disclose that neither they nor their partners are in violation of U.S. sanctions laws or doing business with entities the U.S. Treasury identifies as under Iranian government control.
Dan Crane (R-IL) and Gerry Studds (D-MA) were revealed in 1983 to have had sexual relationships with teenage congressional pages, they were censured by the full House.
With House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) declining to run for a leadership post in the minority, the front-runner for Republican leader is the current majority leader, John Boehner of Ohio.
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Seven senators did not vote, including presidential candidates Joe Biden (D-DE), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Chris Dodd (D-CT), John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL).
Only three incumbents went down to defeat that year: Al D'Amato (R-NY), Lauch Faircloth (R-NC) and Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL).
Henry Waxman ( CA) and Bobby Rush (IL) wrote a letter to Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Fred Upton (R-MI) calling for hearings on an asserted link between Hurricane Sandy and global warming.
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