Bill aimed at encouraging the development of energyefficient technologies for use in both commercial and residential buildings. Senate majority leader harry reid expressed dismay that efforts had failed to yield an overall agreement on amendments to move the bill forward, but he says hes hopeful members can regroup this week to advance the measure. Today theyll also debate and vote on two judicial nominations to the u. S. Court of federal claims. Over in the house, theres a brief pro forma session at 2 eastern, no legislative business expected. A comprehensive Forest Management bill that would direct the Agricultural Department to establish Timber Harvesting zones, also to resize and renew nutrition assistance programs that were not included in the farm bill. Follow the house live on cspan and the senate on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host well, it was in 2010 that the federal Communications
Anywhere. Their trial is set for may. They both have to put up millions to secure their bond, 10 million for manafort, 5 million for gates. Manafort tried to sue the government to get them to drop the charge against them but to disempanel the special counsel Robert Mueller. He wasnt appointed properly. Now, nobody thinks that lawsuit from manafort is going anywhere, and that raised the question of why he did it. Why did manafort and his lawyers go through the time and expense of filing that lawsuit when it was nothing anybody was going to take seriously . It just really looked like a very desperate move. Whats Paul Manafort feeling so desperate about . Today Paul Manafort and rick gates got sued by a putinlinked Russian Oligarch they used to do business with. Oleg deripaska. They tried to do several big business deals together. At least one of those deals appears to have gone wrong. From what we can tell, it seems like deripaska gave manafort and his company many millions of dollars, 1
A third guilty plea, from the wife of one of the former senior officials, was also announced this month by federal prosecutors, who allege the group conspired to defraud the city of over $600,000 in department contracts.