This month the Senate is set to take up the climate and energy bill that Congress began work on last spring.
The fate of health care in the U.S. Senate will set the passage odds for cap-and-trade and union card check next year.
The House and Senate budget committees set spending targets and instructed appropriations committees to work within those limits.
In November, the Senate voted to set up a select committee to examine the new tax system and take evidence from independent economists.
The House and Senate Budget Committees set the overall parameters for tax and spending in the rare years when they pass a budget resolution.
The Senate, which is set to begin summer recess after this week, has been gridlocked for days on various energy bills.
By making the pledge before the terms of the Senate deal were even set, Zelizer said, Boehner sent a signal to House Republicans that they were going to lose the battle over the fiscal cliff even if they didn't like the Senate deal.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is set to stand tall in the Senate, and the Republican-dominated House of Representatives would prove hard to sway toward sweeping legislation.
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The GOP is set to take Senate seats in North Dakota and Nebraska, and maybe to overturn Democratic toeholds in states from Montana to Virginia.
Some of the most senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unveiled a resolution Wednesday that is bound to set off an enormous showdown on the Senate floor over who knows best for America's strategy in Iraq.
Democrats mustered just three more than the minimum 216 votes to approve the Senate health care bill, and four more than the minimum for a set of changes to that bill that the Senate will consider this week.
Another conservative outsider, Sharron Angle, won the Nevada Republican primary and is set to take on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Rob Portman looks set to win his Senate race easily, after the Democrats' attempt to make his a competitive race fizzled out.
But to the dismay of his country-club-set colleagues in the Senate, Flavier has added another menace to his list of environmental hazards: golf courses.
Volcker countered that his proposal should be just part of a much larger set of reforms the Senate is considering to overhaul the financial system.
Early this morning, the House and Senate reached an agreement on a set of Wall Street reforms that represents 90 percent of what I proposed when I took up this fight.
Surely this country could reduce CO2 emissions a little more than 7% in 10 years and meet the modest target set out in the Senate climate bill, which appears likely to be introduced next week.
Sometime soon ( perhaps), Senators Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman are expected to unveil new Senate climate legislation, featuring yet another set of regulations for greenhouse gases, this time with various methods for different sectors and energy uses.
However, the newest version is set to be passed in the Senate.
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Baucus should be very aware of this from his experiences during the 1990 House-Senate conference committee on Clean Air Act amendments, when he failed to persuade the Senate to adopt language requiring the EPA to set CO2 emission standards for motor vehicles.
White House reactions to that set off more reactions from the Senate, and last week the Senate added an amendment to their annual defense bill in which they called on the president to give them regular reports on progress towards making 2006 the transition year when the Iraqis take over their own defense.
When John Edwards decided to give up his Senate seat to run for vice president, it set the stage for a hard-fought race between Bowles and Burr.
On Friday, CMS Chief Actuary Richard Foster said in a memo on the (less costly) Senate version of the program that premiums would be set so high they would discourage healthier people from buying in.
Charlie Crist, Florida's governor, was set to leave the Republican Party and run for the Senate as an independent.
Vice-President Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, who led the final talks, agreed to set the crucial threshold for the new tax rate for upper-income individuals at four hundred thousand dollars (and four hundred and fifty thousand dollars for families).
As a result, all other things being equal, even if the Senate joins the House in rejecting the Democrat-led effort to set deadlines for reducing our presence in Iraq or withdrawing posthaste, this week's deliberations may not adequately serve the public's need to understand the true nature of this conflict and its stakes.
The bill, proposed by state senator Elaine Alquist, is set to sail through the health committee, onto the state senate floor, and, eventually, into California state law.
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Last month the Democratic Party set a record for midterm-election unpopularity by losing control of six Senate seats and 63 House seats.
First a Republican Senate seat gets lost to an independent, Angus King, and now voters are set to allow for gay marriage.
The Ohio Senate today is scheduled to consider a bill that would end the secrecy surrounding trusts set up by bankrupt companies to pay out asbestos claims.
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