Sentences with phrase «congress passed this year»

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The Catholic church spends 28 million dollars a year lobbying OUR congress members to pass and enact morality laws.

Because Democrats are already having enough problems passing legislation, next year we're expected to have even fewer Democrats in the House and Senate, and there's talk in town as to whether the Democrats will even control the congress after the elections this fall.

The leftists in the NY congress were chomping at the bit to get this legislation thru knowing that it would never pass if a Republican controlled Senate were to return in 2 years.

You know, the half of congress that didn't pass a budget for three years?

Heck, even my Dad watched congress pass a retroactive change which reduced his federal pension a few years after he retired, dropping his monthly benefit by 40 %.

That said, renewable energy is becoming so economically competitive on its own that the industry now feels comfortable accepting a phase out of the PTC over the next five years, and the tax extenders package that just passed through congress does exactly this.