GOP Prods Senate on Continuity

By Suzanne Nelson
Roll Call Staff

June 20, 2005, 12 a.m.

The House Republican leadership, frustrated by what it perceives as unacceptable inaction by the Senate on continuity of Congress legislation, last week attached a measure to an appropriations bill that would expedite special elections in the event of mass casualties.

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