Nevada’s two senators are in the closest thing to a math fight they’ve had for a while, albeit somewhat indirectly, as each throws out his best numbers for and against the tax bill.
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Reid, Ensign focusing on numbers that bolster their arguments
Harry Reid: Congress will ‘get it done,’ even if it means working into new year
Speaking to reporters this afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid delivered a pre-Christmas lump of coal that could last through the whole holiday season: Yes, he knows everyone’s itching to get home, but he’s prepared to have them hunker down through the new near, if that’s what it takes to finish his agenda.
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Budget bill might be final option in fading effort to legalize online poker
The proposal to legalize some online gambling appears to have little chance of passage. But because its legalization would be a tax revenue-generator, it could be attached to the federal budget.
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John Ensign among 15 to vote against tax bill motion
After clearing a procedural vote with an overwhelming majority, it looks like the Senate will be poised to pass the tax bill — but not everyone is on board.
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GOP backs health care ruling; Harry Reid calls it an ‘outlier’
Nevada lawmakers weighed in on a federal judge’s decision in Virginia that the sweeping health care reform law Congress passed earlier this year is unconstitutional, handing a political victory to Republicans and Tea Partiers who have long been been calling for its repeal.
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Mr. Sanders Goes to Washington
It’s the wrong Mr. S, but independent senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders is channeling the spirit of Jimmy Stewart circa 1939 today, in his filibuster of the president’s tax bill.
American Gaming Association backing effort to legalize online poker
The American Gaming Association, the gaming industry’s biggest lobbyist, came out today in unequivocal support of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bid to legalize online poker.
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Nevada lawmakers make progress with energy initiatives
WASHINGTON — The tax bill and the federal budget are proving to be politically intractable enough that they might keep Congress around town until Christmas — but in the meantime, Nevada lawmakers are scoring some pretty solid successes in the energy arena.
Heller backs proposal to cut House office budgets
Nevada Rep. Dean Heller announced he’d support Speaker-elect John Boehner’s plan to reduce House members’ office budgets by 5 percent — so much so that he’d do it whether or not the full House approves the change.
Delay on DREAM Act acknowledgment of GOP standoff
Last night, the House gave the pro-immigration movement its strongest victory in decades, by passing a measure to give young, undocumented college students and military enlistees a chance to become American citizens.
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