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...remains to be seen what they'll make of Reid's version, which will have to be reconciled or passed in pieces by the House before the President can sign it into law. "It is accurate to say that there would be disagreements," House majority leader Steny Hoyer told reporters on Tuesday. "But we really need to see what the Senate does...
...straight day, about 230,000 federal employees were forced to stay home - a stoppage that Office of Personnel Management director John Berry has said costs taxpayers an estimated $100 million per day in labor that workers are unable to perform. With forecasts darkening on Tuesday, House majority leader Steny Hoyer canceled votes for the rest of the week, while the Senate called off votes slated for Wednesday. For what might be the first time ever, says Fred Beuttler, the House's deputy historian, the chamber's cafeteria was forced to close. Major hearings on Capitol Hill were postponed, including...
Officials in Washington and Virginia said they would press to have Obama declare a federal emergency, which would unlock FEMA funds to help with the recovery. Hoyer told reporters that Congress would consider providing federal disaster assistance to help the city dig out from the "historic" storm. (See pictures of London's crippling snowfall...
...remains unclear if the House will pass a large catch-all bill or several smaller bills. House leadership had been aiming to pass a bill, or bills, by the end of the year, though majority leader Steny Hoyer on Tuesday indicated that the timeline may slip. "The important thing - my perspective, speaking for Steny Hoyer - is to get a jobs package that will work, not getting one right now," he told reporters. "If we adopt it in the next two or three weeks or we adopt it in January, we need to make sure it'll work." Either...
...House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer echoed this sentiment, proposing that Wilson be censured should he not apologize on the floor of the House of Representatives, as if it were the House that Wilson had wronged rather than the president to whom Wilson had already apologized. “I would like to see Mr. Wilson come to the floor and apologize to the House,” Hoyer told reporters...