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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a senior Republican House lawmaker from Florida who fled Cuba as a child, said on CNN that Castro's death changes nothing.
"Draconian, careless and counterproductive," said one House lawmaker — not a Democrat, but Kentucky Republican Hal Rogers, former Appropriations Committee chairman.
"It's time to end the 120-year injustice of Puerto Rico being a colony," a House lawmaker said.
"We should all care, because that cost will have to be passed on, in the form of higher prices for products sold to consumers or a lower return for investors," said Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr., a former House lawmaker turned financial industry lobbyist, whose organization Sifma has urged Mr. Gensler to compromise on the cross-border rules.
In a 2009 survey of House members by The Hill, he was named one of the most partisan and one of the most bipartisan members of the chamber (the only House lawmaker to make both lists), and was effusively praised by several Republicans.
He'd always put one form or another of unspecified, decline to state or "none of your business," said the 53-year-old House lawmaker, who comes from a left-leaning district that runs from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border.
It is unclear how House lawmakers think that mandate could be enforced.
HOUSE lawmakers also reduced the apparent cost of their bill by including "sunset" provisions that end particular tax breaks after several years.
In each house, lawmakers with Mr. Singh's party, the governing Indian National Congress Party, ignored the din and allowed the statements to be accepted formally into the record — on a voice vote that no one could hear.
According to the speaker of Russia's upper house, lawmakers have "a very serious package" of countermeasures in the aerospace and engineering industries ready if sanctions are ratcheted up.
After more than a half-dozen hearings in Congress, Democratic House lawmakers said they intended to tighten restrictions on pension funds, investment banks and other investors that they say are driving up fuel prices.
