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One clue to the governor's stance is that Mr. Pataki has neither resubmitted large parts of his budget nor given the lawmakers the legal ability to move quickly on their bills.

But Republican leaders scheduled votes on the temporary bills for Saturday morning and for Sunday evening to give the lawmakers the maximum amount of time to campaign.

Voters in the most conservative districts often raise the issue, giving the lawmakers fuel to bring back to the Capitol after weekends at home.

France, however, is not in favor of a giving the lawmakers a permanent home.

In the emergency application, lawyers for Turzai and Scarnati wrote that the court did not give the lawmakers a "meaningful" chance to draw a new map.

The supervisor later tells Merkley he can't give the lawmaker a statement and refers him to an outside phone number.

Grimm's support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, first reported by The Washington Blade, is something of a surprise given the New York lawmaker's less than stellar track record on LGBT rights.

Given the fact that lawmakers yelling about assault rifles and Glocks very seldom feel compelled to quote from the Bible, you'd think we could work toward a sensible national consensus on guns.

Mr. Douglas has said that Vermont's civil-union law provides sufficient rights and that, given the economic crisis, lawmakers should be focused instead on issues like job creation.

The unresolved dispute has left the families of those killed on Sept. 11 frustrated, particularly given the agreement on which lawmakers came excruciatingly close.

But the bill has provoked concerns, primarily among House Republicans, that may be extremely hard to overcome given the compressed calendar that lawmakers are facing before the current Congress adjourns in the next few days.