Several state lawmakers attended and pledged to back a bill during the upcoming legislative session.
The House earlier in the day turned back a bill by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Massachusetts, that would have had U.S. combat troops leaving Iraq within 180 days.
But this year Jennings listened to another part of his constituency, spouses and children of addicted gamblers who begged him to back a bill banning the machines.
Growing support in the United States for anti-missile defences was highlighted by the recent vote of a Senate committee to back a bill that would mandate the building of a national missile shield for the United States as soon as technically possible.
As Andrew Lansley sends sections of his Health and Social Care Bill back to a Commons public bill committee, to be re-written according to the dictates of the NHS Future Forum, can this be considered a triumph for Parliament, as opposed to the Government?
And usually when they send a bill back to a committee at this stage in a Congress it means that bill is dead.
And I ask Congress in a bipartisan way to come back, pass a clean bill, finish the negotiations, and then get to a bigger FAA bill.
On January 20th, Mr Ciampi sent back to parliament a bill on appeal procedures.
Olympia Snowe of Maine said deep divisions over a public option were holding back progress on a bipartisan health care bill.
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He introduced a bill back in December to help transform the Congress.
If the talks are resumed, it could have to go back and revise a farm bill passed later this year, which could complicate things even further.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said last night he will try to find a way to bring the bill back to the floor in a few weeks.
In this interview he seems to clearly embrace a scaled-back version of the bill, and said something to the effect maybe we can do a bill on the things that are popular, there are a lot of things that are popular.
Take a little detour from their own vacation, come back to Washington, and pass a clean bill.
And so specifically, he could have, last summer, done a scaled-back bill like he's talking about today in this interview.
The hold, for example, was a courtesy extended to senators in the days of horse travel, when they needed time to get back to Washington and read a bill or question an appointee before casting their vote.
Where differences of opinion between the two chambers prove difficult to reconcile, a bout of parliamentary ping-pong may ensue - so called because a bill bounces back and forth between the Commons and the Lords until both chambers approve the final wording.
There was a sense of occasion as Tottenham ended a wait dating back to the era of their famous manager Bill Nicholson by playing a home match in the proper stages of Europe's elite competition for the first time since April 1962.
By contrast, IRA assets converted to a Roth IRA could be moved back to a traditional account, wiping out the tax bill.
If Congress fails to pass a bill, we'll be back to square one in the new year, with the Senate needing to pass a new bill which will then have to be ratified by the House.
On Tuesday, Daschle wrote Bush, proposing to bring a scaled-back economic stimulus bill to the Senate floor.
Congress should pass a bill putting them back to work right now, giving help to the states so that those layoffs are not occurring.
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If Congress really believes in the words that they're saying about jobs, creating jobs, putting people back to work, stop your vacation, come back to Washington, pass a clean bill.
If you're careful, you can get lots of mileage from your donations. (See related story, p. 165.) But if you aren't, you can either suffer unpleasant investment surprises or get a nasty bill for back taxes and interest.
But if those cash reserves are offshore, and bringing them back would spark a corporate income tax bill, it might be that the bonds have been issued domestically in order to get money that can be used domestically.
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I'm reading some reports from the Hill this morning that some people, some of the congressional members are talking about doing a scaled-back health reform bill, not something that is as comprehensive but something that would have more immediate benefits for the middle class, like the preexisting thing going into effect immediately.
The way it might work, for example, is that a business owner could borrow back (defer) a percentage of his or her tax bill with the requirement that at the end of the next tax year, proof be provided that the money was used to add employees or invest in plant and equipment.
In a very public way Bill fell hard a few years ago, got back up, and now wears his gratitude like a glowing robe.
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