Last December Congress inserted legislation in its appropriations bill a measure designating Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the sole site to be considered for this countries first & probably only, repository for high-level nuclear waste & spent fuel.
Ksenia Lyapina, a deputy from Mr. Yushchenko's party, Our Ukraine, dismissed the rowdy opposition deputies as "monkeys from the jungle," and said her party intended to insert the legislation into the package intended for the I.M.F., before the final rounds of voting on Thursday, casting a shadow over the fate of the package once again.
Democrats are trying to ensure this happens, and increase the rate of job creation, by (insert current legislation's name here).
Mr. Smith and Mr. Wyden withdrew their objection this evening after Mr. Leahy inserted his legislation on undercover operations into a foreign aid bill.
The deadline was set by Republican members of Congress in a provision inserted into legislation on a payroll tax-cut extension late last year.
DESPITE news coverage of the lobbying reform law passed in September, one change to Senate rules has gone unnoticed, one that makes it easier for last-minute proposals to be inserted into legislation behind closed doors.
And the committee's senior Republican, Representative Jerry Lewis of California, has a brother in the government relations office of Loma Linda University, which often benefits from the special provisions known as earmarks that Mr. Lewis inserts into legislation.
The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, who is to speak at the Journalists' Charity on Tuesday night to criticise the government's plans to introduce new internet spying powers, called for a public interest defence for the press to be inserted into legislation like Ripa and the Bribery Act last October.
For the past several years, Congress has been operating under a formal ban of earmarks -- tiny bits of spending that members previously enjoyed inserting into legislation to benefit projects and constituents in their home states.
