Clinton lamented that his ballyhooed handshake on the issue with House Speaker Newt Gingrich in New Hampshire in the spring of 1995 never bore fruit.
Mindful of those doubts, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and therefore the man with his hand on the steering wheel for the issue in the House, declared last week that he will pursue an incremental, go-slow approach.
Later Thursday, Biden weighed in on another issue the White House is pushing: immigration reform.
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.
Not once did the White House issue a correction.
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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.
Opposition from New Yorkers is making this a tricky issue for the White House.
That was the real issue for the White House because of its potential damage to union labor.
"It's a generational issue, " State House Speaker Thom Tillis told a student group at North Carolina State University in March.
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The petition has now reached the signature threshold (100, 000 signatures within 30 days) that requires the White House to issue a response.
Christie's Asia says the problem is not a major issue for the auction house today but it was a problem back in 2010.
But the decision not to pursue enforcement actions against compounders, unless there was a safety issue, signaled White House concern about publicity over cost, since a federal agency had effectively allowed a monopoly to develop.
At issue is a Starr filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals in which he took issue with the White House's claim that the president's conversations with his government lawyers should be protected by attorney-client privilege.
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Insiders say the debate within the Obama White House over the issue remains unresolved.
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Last month, Toyota said it would not participate in a new share issue by Sakura, its house bank.
Commons Speaker John Bercow said it was "an extremely important issue" and told the House he would look into the matter.
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The key issue is why the White House sought the sensitive background files and what use, if any, officials made of the data.
The three American soldiers on the cover of Time magazine's Person of the Year issue attended as guests of House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
Democrats wanted to know who was advising the White House on the issue, but Cheney, who ran the panel, refused to disclose the names.
The White House said the issue laid "dormant" until Tuesday when the administration announced in response to a Washington Post report that it was not considering such a regulation.
That's followed by a debate on the fund for European aid to the most deprived - an EU issue referred to the full House by the European Scrutiny Select Committee.
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.
On the AIDS day issue, did this White House look at any chance, any ways of working with HHS in trying to push more anti-retrovirals out for more AIDS patients and HIV patients?
The organisation leading the StopKony campaign issued a response on its website to these points, and it must be stressed that the group has been pushing the White House on this issue for some time.
The issue is now at issue in conference because the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which has exclusive jurisdiction over intelligence authorization matters in the House of Representatives, has chosen to press for retirement of the SR-71.
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.
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