Call to increase Infrastructure Spending as part of a broader agreement on spending and taxes. The house gop seemed to be fracturing and pull from the appropriation bill known for the transportation of housing and urban development. The tea party opposed the bill because it didnt cut enough and moderate republicans including members of the Appropriations Committee because it cut too much in line with the automatic spending cuts that were put in place last year. Hal rogers of kentucky complained on a letter on his website, discretionary cuts must be brought to an end. With House Republicans unable to pass a seeming appropriations bill on their own suddenly looked like an open for the senate to broker a compromise and pass its own bipartisan bill and that, in turn, would put pressure on House Republicans to let that bill come to the floor for a vote and pass mostly with democratic votes. Such an arrangement would allow congress to avoid a debt limit showdown and maybe shut off the seques
On Aug. 25, 2006, U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd stood in the lobby of the Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center at Marshall University for its dedication ceremony. As with