mistry25 said:Rayyan ,
We are closely wathing becuase you never know when they will talk about immigration clause .But it seems the cpnf report is already about to complete and they have very big issues to discuss and I hope immigration clause will be sneaked throgu while big isuuse being discussed .
Canadian_Dream said:Today an entire page in SF chronicle is had reconcilliation coverage. Now even White house has stepped in (for ANWR). In senate at around 1:00 EST Senate there was a debate about objectionable clauses on the house version of the bill and what confrees should focus on.
=============
The House and Senate have taken sharply different approaches. Leaders vow to reconcile their differences before Christmas, but a vote could slip to next year.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/13/MNG50G73RU1.DTL
Aren't these bills subject to Sine-Die ?
kalimmigration said:Iam from south dakota. Today i gave the presentation to the secretary of Tim Johnson(senator) of south dakota. He told he will call and find out what is the stance of Tim Johnson on EB Retrogression(i.e including sec 8001 in the final Version).
Iam also called to meet John Thune another senator from south dakota and the congress woman Stephanie Hersheth. Lets see how it goes.
Thanks
kalimmigration said:Iam from south dakota. Today i gave the presentation to the secretary of Tim Johnson(senator) of south dakota. He told he will call and find out what is the stance of Tim Johnson on EB Retrogression(i.e including sec 8001 in the final Version).
Iam also called to meet John Thune another senator from south dakota and the congress woman Stephanie Hersheth. Lets see how it goes.
Thanks
This is bad news for all of us: Next year is the last thing that we want. If the voting and negotiation on this bill goes in the next year, we would never see the bill coming on the floor. There would be no end to the negotiation.pallu2004 said:House Leader May Delay Budget Vote
By ANDREW TAYLOR
The Associated Press
Tuesday, December 13, 2005; 2:45 PM
WASHINGTON -- As negotiators toil in attempts to seal agreement on a sweeping budget cut bill, the second-ranking Republican in the House acknowledged Tuesday that it's possible the matter may be kicked over into new year.
House Majority Leader Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said he'd rather wait until next year to wrap up the budget bill if completing it this year would mean making too many concessions to the Senate, which passed a significantly milder version of the bill than the House last month.
Asked if it was essential to wrap up the budget cut bill, Blunt said: "Not so essential that we'd have to give up our negotiating position on a number of issues. I think it's better to get that right than to get that quickly."
The House passed a bill trimming $50 billion over five years from myriad federal programs including Medicaid, food stamps, student loan subsidies, and farm subsidies. The Senate's $35 billion version made milder cuts to Medicaid and found savings from the Medicare program as well.
Lobbyists and staff aides said talks so far had tilted in the Senate's direction on several issues. House-passed cuts to food stamps are likely to be dropped as is a House plan to overhaul welfare to require more stringent work requirements for recipients.
Meanwhile, the Senate is pressing hard to use the filibuster-proof budget bill to carry a plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration, but Blunt said "it's clearly something that's very difficult for us to do" as part of the budget in light of vows by House GOP opponents of drilling to block any broader budget plan permitting drilling in ANWR.
pdakwala said:This is bad news for all of us: Next year is the last thing that we want. If the voting and negotiation on this bill goes in the next year, we would never see the bill coming on the floor. There would be no end to the negotiation.