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On the Hill: Legislative Pileup Looms in the Senate
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
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When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was informed that the House had taken less than an hour to approve an unemployment bill that languished for a month in the Senate, his aides said he did not know whether to laugh or cry. It has been that kind of...
Tags: Republican Senate, Congressional, Afghanistan, Kabul, Political corruption, Republican Party, Mitch McConnell, Cloture, Democratic Party, Political parties in the United States, Parliamentary procedure, Filibuster, Politics
New Consensus Sees Stimulus Package as Worthy Step
New York :: NY :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent , some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed into law last February was way too small. The economy needs a second big infusion,...
Tags: tax cutting, White House, Congressional, stimulus package, Mr. Obama, Moody’s Economy.com, New York, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Georgia Stimulus Plan, Tax cut, Taxation, Keynesian economics, Business Finance, Politics
We Can Fix a Broken Immigration System... Here's How
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Here's How Posted by Rachel LaBruyere, Standing Firm at 5:02 PM on November 20, 2009. Outside pressure is the key to finally winning this fight. Share and save this post: AlterNet Social Networks: On Wednesday night, 60,000...
Tags: immigration reform, broken immigration, Congressional, real immigration, San Francisco, Politics, Immigration law, Social Issues
The Lobbyists' Ability To Control The Message
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility For way too long, we've seen how much politicians seem to rely on lobbyists to write the legislation, create the talking points and (at times) even deferring questions to the lobbyists themselves. Is it any wonder that lobbyists have become the new celebrities...
Tags: Congressional, congressional reps, Genentech, San Francisco, Lobbying, United States Congress
If You the Love the Fraud, Waste and Ineffectiveness of the Stimulus Package, You’re Going to Love Government-Run Health Care
Eleven months after passage of the 787 billion dollar Stimulus Bill Americans are seeing every day just exactly what a bill of goods they were sold by President Obama and the Congress. Despite the president’s insistence that the legislation is saving...
Tags: Bill Americans, Congressional, Obama, allnews, Chicago, Eleven, Climate crisis, United States federal banking legislation, Barack Obama, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Presidency of Barack Obama, Politics, 111th United States Congress, Social Issues, Love Government-Run Health Care, Labor
Summit schools staffer to speak on education before Congressional subcommittee
Frisco :: CO :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Mary Kay Dore, district student support services manager, is to speak in Washington, D.C. along with Congressman Jared Polis at 10 a.m. “I am excited at the chance to share some changes we have made in our schools that have helped address the needs of...
Tags: summit schools, Jared Polis, Congressional, congressional subcommittee, Frisco, United States House Education Subcommittee on Early Childhood Elementary and Secondary Education, Education
Holder: DOJ Report on Yoo, Bybee Torture Memos to Be Released by Month's End
Youngstown :: OH :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t Report A long-awaited Justice Department watchdog report that is said to be highly critical of the legal work on torture that three attorneys who worked at the agency's powerful Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) conducted for...
Tags: OPR, Mr. Bradbury, OLC, Steven Bradbury, Congressional, Justice Department, Harry S. Truman, George W. Bush, opr investigation, legally opinion, Youngstown, Waterboarding, War on Terrorism, Bybee Memo, John Yoo, Office of Legal Counsel, Torture in the United States, War crimes, Human rights abuses, Politics
Inhofe claims victory on global warming
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Sen. Jim Inhofe, perhaps Congress' most vocal skeptic of man-made global warming, essentially declared victory Wednesday in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor. "I proudly declare 2009 as the 'Year of the Skeptic,' the year in which scientists who question...
Tags: global warming, Oklahoma Transportation, Oklahoma Republican, Congressional, Washington, Environmental skepticism, Jim Inhofe, United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Environment, Politics, Oklahoma, Coburn, Tom Coburn, Gary Ridley
Lieberman pushes Ft. Hood inquiry
Fort Hood :: TX :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said the Senate can't sit back for the Obama administration to investigate the shootings at Ft. Hood, so he’s pushing ahead with a Homeland Security Committee hearing to look into what went wrong before the massacre. There’s...
Tags: Nidal Malik Hasan, hood shootings, Texas Army, Nidal Hasan, Congressional, Nidal Malik Hasan, House Intelligence Committee, Major Hasan, Fort Hood, Muslims, Joe Lieberman presidential campaign, United States Senate election in Connecticut, Baalei teshuva, Joe Lieberman, Presidency of Barack Obama, Politics, Hassan, Shi'a imams, Hasan ibn Ali, Ismailism, Islam, Islamism, Jihad, Islamic terrorism, War Conflict, Muslim Brotherhood, Marwan al-Shehhi, Mohamed Atta, Pete Hoekstra, Mike Conaway, United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, John Cornyn
Is There Economic Consensus on Climate Bills?
Toronto :: Canada | 6 days ago
Credibility In the media blitz accompanying the release of the study, IPI spokespeople sold its results as a “consensus” among expert economists comparable to that of the climate scientists. They gave the average person the impression that only a fool or a tool of...
Tags: Congressional, climate change, gas emissions, U.S, Waxman-Markey, pending legislative, IPI, economic consensus, survey economists, significant risk, Canada, Toronto, Carbon finance, Air pollution, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Carbon tax, Business For Innovative Climate and Energy Policy, Global warming, Emissions trading, Environment
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