Anheuser-Busch's board is, by today's corporate governance standards, a fairly clubby bunch--including executives on whose boards Busch III sits, the in-house p.r. adviser and a first cousin who evidently helped him in the power grab in 1975.
Anheuser-Busch's board is, by today's corporate governance standards, a fairly clubby bunch--including fellow executives on whose boards Busch III sits, the in-house p.r. adviser and a first cousin who evidently helped him in the power grab in 1975.
Without laws like THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT (E-Verify provision) In June 2011, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) introduced the Legal Workforce Act (HR 2164), an E-Verify bill that requires all employers to use the employment verification system.
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That seems to have played out more in the House than the Senate: earlier in the month, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-OH) indicated that he was not opposed to eliminating some tax breaks for big oil companies.
In the House, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has said the chamber would look at anything the Senate approved.
Underscoring the difficult path gun curbs face in the GOP-run House, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, repeated his plan to wait for the Senate to produce something and pointedly noted that the background check agreement had yet to pass Senate muster.
Six served in the House (Burr, Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Thune and Vitter), which is up from four in the Class of 2002.
Other Republican leadership positions are in still in play as House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) and Republican Conference Chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio) are both being challenged by House colleagues.
"I think people are tired of all the gridlock they see in Congress, " said House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois.
"I feel that there is positive momentum on this issue, " said Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, a participant in the White House meeting and co-sponsor of legislation.
"If it gets to conference, this bill is dead because we allow the opponents of reform to write it in the House, " Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Connecticut, said on ABC's "This Week".
Instead, she said, a bipartisan group of supporters will meet with House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, in hopes of convincing him to schedule the bill.
House Republicans have discussed pushing a Medicaid per-person spending cap next year as a possible compromise to the Medicaid block grant proposal in the House-passed budget, according to Rep. Mike Burgess (R-TX), but Democratic lobbyists say it is doubtful Congress could work out a deal in part because per-person caps would create bureaucratic nightmares.
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R. departments no longer have the resources to promote in-house programs, or never did.
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House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, joins other GOP colleagues in saying he thinks Weiner should resign.
"We'll do what we have to do, but we have a pretty hefty amount of money in the disaster relief fund, " said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, R-Ky.
"It concerns me that some executive branch officials have recently been making suggestions that congressional initiatives and specific recommendations for funding and appropriations bills are unwarranted intrusions in the budget process, " said House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman Jerry Lewis, R-California.
While it reduces the deficit over 10 years, it stands in sharp contrast to the House budget proposal, written by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, that passed the House Wednesday.
"There's a TSA disaster every week, and the security meltdown gets more and more outrageous, " said Rep. John Mica, R-Florida, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, in a release put out by his office on Friday.
The SHIELD Act introduced yesterday in the House by Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R- Utah, would help protect innovators from trolls by making the plaintiff pay the legal costs when their baseless lawsuits are ultimately rejected in court.
The bill was introduced by Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, who represents the district that includes Fort Hood Army Post in the House of Representatives.
The Republicans in the House have reached an agreement that has reportedly been blessed by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).
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The proposal, already widely reported in the press, drew criticism Sunday from Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Budget Committee.
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"Obviously, we shouldn't be thinking about spending more in the same way to try and reverse this job loss, " House Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va.
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.
In the House, the bipartisan "energy working group" -- formed by Rep. John Peterson, R-Pennsylvania, and Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii -- includes 23 members, roughly split evenly between the two parties.
They sent a letter to House Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), who is in charge of drafting the legislation that will set the "date certain" when broadcasters have to stop sending analog transmissions.
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The measure represents the latest in a series of Republican concessions on spending and debt issues, with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and his leadership team proposing the debt ceiling increase without any spending cuts they had previously demanded to offset the cost.
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