The Democrats this year, by no means just Bill Clinton, are trailblazing new realms of dishonesty in American politics.
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And it may be that just the bill was too big the first time -- there was just too much stuff, and they weren't clear about what the jobs act would do.
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Basically, a Dollar or Euro is a bill, just like your electric bill or gas bill.
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We're all together to ask for a just legalization bill in the U.S. Congress.
Just like the budget bill you just did, that you started at -- you started at zero, they started at 61, and you worked your way to a reasonable compromise.
House Appropriations Chairman Jerry Lewis of California says last year he received more than 10, 000 requests for individual special projects in just one bill, the one that funds the Departments of Labor, Education and Health and Human Services.
If Bush is campaigning as the champion of the status quo sentries of Washington, McCain is trying to turn them all out in the street and build a whole new bigger house, just as Bill Clinton did for the Democrats eight years ago.
And I wonder, with the polling data -- I think ABC News has a poll out today -- when you add it up, 67 percent of the public either wants to throw out the whole bill or just throw out the mandate, not the whole bill.
While I'm not ready to stop paying my cable bill just yet, I'm not admitting defeat.
Congress simply will not vote down the defense appropriations bill just because there is a performance tax attached.
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Just getting a bill to the floor for debate can require days of tactical gamesmanship between the party leaders.
Neither party should delay or obstruct every single bill just because they can.
Just yesterday, Bill Gates said he agrees with me that Americans who can afford it should pay their fair share.
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To further discourage single-use containers, Portland just passed a bill that bans plastic bags in all major grocery stores.
House leaders initially balked at immediate consideration of a big spending bill just after concluding the excruciating negotiations around the fiscal cliff.
Meanwhile, at the state level, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin just signed a bill that will create a public insurance option within his borders.
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Conveniently for the food industry, the figures came out just as a bill was presented to Parliament seeking to limit the promotion of some foods to children.
Is it the White House position that the Republicans in Congress are actively in league with Wall Street lobbyists to try to just block the bill altogether?
This bill just happens to be in the House of Commons right now so that bit will be considered first by MPs, not peers who will look at the royal charter first.
Consider just one of Bill Clinton's lucrative arrangements.
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There are, I promise you, at least as many small businesses out there, if you talk to them, who will say, I just got my bill from my health insurance and it went up 40 percent.
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"Opponents of the Zimbabwe Government have become so preoccupied with the media bill just passed by parliament that they have lost sight - understandably so - of the other two repressive laws passed recently, " the paper said.
Because Congress clearly has nothing more important to focus on at the moment, Rep. Joe Baca (D) has just introduced a bill called the Video Game Health Labeling Act, which would require all violent video games to carry a Surgeon General-type explicit warning label on them.
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One other option, although nobody wants it, is for Congress to attach a health care bill to an omnibus budget reconciliation bill just like they did with COBRA. If that's the only way it could get to the President's desk, would he sign that as well?
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