“I don’t think we’ll be dealing with it over here”.
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When asked about the prospect of Obama vetoing the legislation, Reid said, “Don’t worry, it won’t get passed”. The same measure passed the House of Representatives earlier this week. The committee approved an amendment that calls for a study of whether the Legislature’s long-standing exemption from the public records law should be lifted.
On the floor, Paul blocked consideration of amendments unless he could get a vote on an amendment created to block federal benefits for any arriving refugees.
While the state Legislature will wait until next year to take up the governor’s more comprehensive bill to combat the state’s opioid crisis, lawmakers can point to the fentanyl bill as an accomplishment in the first year of their two-year session in the fight against addiction.
Cornyn said the House bill is a candidate for including in the omnibus “if it doesn’t pass otherwise”. Democrats have a record of success blaming shutdowns on the GOP, something even McConnell recognizes. Johnson said he’s hopeful the same can happen in the Senate.
“If you are going to send people home Thanksgiving week, you’re going to have to justify why you voted no on the only piece of legislation in front of us post Paris and it was a fairly modest bill”, Connolly said. “The Senate-House conference report resets education policy with a focus on student learning rather than student testing, while maintaining resources to students with the most needs”, said American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.
Lawmakers in favor of the new restrictions cited polls, including a Bloomberg survey released this week showing 53 percent of respondents opposed to the administration’s plans to resettle up to 10,000 refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war in the United States.
An administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the measure that emerged from the conference committee was an improvement over the versions that passed the House and Senate this summer.
But on Thursday he held back from committing to the House bill.
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“I was concerned we were short cutting the vetting to meet a quota”. Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Highways and Transit Subcommittee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) for working so closely together to achieve one of the few bipartisan bills to come from the 114th Congress. The agreement also prohibits the education secretary from mandating academic standards such as the Common Core, guidelines that have prompted enormous political backlash.
