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...border-security provisions are greatly strengthened, Republican senators bluntly warned on Tuesday."If in fact the American...other GOP lawmakers, came as both Democratic and Republican senators filed a flurry of amendments ahead of the first...
...federal government's responsibility, and that it should not then be on the shoulders of the state of Alaska," the Republican senator told Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.More than 130 wells were drilled under the federal government's direction...
...administered to legislators last year. While Sitka's Republican Senator Bert Stedman (a real business-minded representative...literally) and Coghill is arguably the most party line Republican senator.It is presumable that this year's Business Report...
...companies that it hopes to encourage.? "The Senate's passage of SB21 was corrupted by 'yes' votes from two Republican senators employed by ConocoPhillips." The company, whose tax bill would decline dramatically if the legislation passes...
...committees which must review Parnell's Senate Bill 21 before it can go to the Senate floor, agreed with fellow Republican senators that "Alaska is noncompetitive" and that its oil tax system should be reformed.But Fairclough also said she...
...Minority Leader Johnny Ellis, D-Anchorage, both responded Wednesday morning to expressions of concern by two Republican senators over Parnell's proposal to remove progressivity from Alaska's oil production tax structure - attention to a...
...Thursday after a bitter, weekslong standoff with Republican senators who declared they would fight to defeat her nomination...and with America's agenda."Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska, is a Vietnam veteran, served two...
...Manchin (D-W.Va.) Sen. Joe signaled they would support measures like an assault weapons ban. Even prominent Republican Senators Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) favor a re-evaluation of the nation's gun policies...
...It seems the oil lobby has convinced some state legislators that it's a problem which needs fixing now. So Republican Senator Dwight Cook introduced legislation last week which proposes to reduce the state's oil extraction tax. According...
...contender is not alone among Republicans who criticized the stimulus plan only to seek money later. Georgia's Republican senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, for example, blasted the bill as a bloated government giveaway yet asked...