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Today In The Senate
The Senate will convene at 10:30 a.m. and proceed to a period of morning business for up to one hour, with Senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each.Following morning business, the Senate...
View ArticleSenate Democrats Call On Blagojevich To Resign
In a letter signed by Democratic leaders Harry Reid (D-NV), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA) and co-signed by 43 other members of the caucus, Senate Democrats asked...
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Today In The Senate
The Senate will convene at 10:30 a.m. and proceed to a period of morning business for up to one hour, with Senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each.Following morning business, the Senate...
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Specter's Curious Hindsight On Alberto Gonzales
I'll be the first to admit that out of all Senate Republicans, Arlen Specter (R-PA) was arguably the hardest on then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales during Gonzo's lengthy period of ignoring the...
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Senate Republicans Kill Auto Bailout Bill
With 31 of them and a small handful of Democrats ready to throw millions of workers under the bus because of the mistakes of the Big Three automakers' executives, Senate Republicans last night...
View ArticleDemocrats React To Daschle Nomination
Senate Democrats were understandably pleased when President-elect Barack Obama announced that former Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota will be his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services....
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Feingold Calls On Obama To "Restore Rule of Law" In America
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), as a key member of both the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence committees, has been battling the Bush administration for many years over the litany of Constitutional abuses...
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BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite Of The Week
Hey, it's Friday, which means it's time to check out BuzzFlash's "GOP Hypocrite Of The Week." As always, it's a grueling process to narrow the selection to just one Republican hypocrite, and this week...
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The Saturday Cartoons
Before we get to the 'toons, I'm pleased to share the news that our friend Jeff Danziger of the New York Times and the Rutland Herald (Vermont) has received the 2008 Thomas Nast Award, for editorial...
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Today In The Senate
The U.S. Senate is in recess and will be back in session on January 6, 2009, when the 111th Congress will convene.
View ArticleThe President-Elect's Weekly Address
In case you missed it, here is President-elect Barack Obama with his weekend radio/web address in which he discussed a major part of the country's economic problems -- the mortgage crisis. He also used...
View ArticleAnother Clue On Why We Like Obama
In the January 2009 issue of Esquire magazine, New Mexico Governor and Commerce Secretary nominee Bill Richardson gives us another clue as to why so many Americans have been drawn to Barack Obama....
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Kerry Comes Full Circle on Foreign Relations Committee
On April 22, 1971, young Lieutenant Junior Grade John F. Kerry appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations committee to give testimony in hearings about ending the Vietnam war. The opportunity put...
View ArticleReid Announces Senate Committee Chairmanships For 111th Congress
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) yesterday announced his recommendations to the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee regarding committee chairmanships for the 111th Congress.“I am...
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Who To Replace Salazar? It Should Be An Improvement…
Now that Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) has been nominated by President-elect Barack Obama to be the new Secretary of the Interior -- and will certainly be confirmed based on qualifications and a favorable...
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The Buzz Around Caroline Kennedy
Unless you've been ignoring the news entirely, you know that there's significant buzz in New York and nationally over Caroline Kennedy as a possible choice by Governor David Paterson to replace Hillary...
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BuzzFlash's Media Putz Of The Week
The folks at BuzzFlash check in today with their Media Putz of the week, "for reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather...
View ArticleRick Warren??? What Is Team Obama Thinking?
Even through my utter euphoria at Barack Obama being elected president, I knew there would be times in the coming years when I would disagree with certain decisions and policy stances taken by our new...
View ArticleA Reader Asks That I Reconsider Obama-Warren
I stopped publicly answering reader mail quite some time ago -- I generally only did it years ago to make fun of right-wingers sending me hate mail -- but I got a note from Michael Rapaport of...
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The Saturday Cartoons
* * * * *Here's Mark Fiore with a timely version of 'Twas The Night Before Christmas -- "Corruption Christmas."Click on the screenshot above or go here to see it.* * * * *Our friends at Headzup show us...
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Today In The Senate
The U.S. Senate is in recess and will be back in session on January 6, 2009, when the 111th Congress will convene.
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Happy Holidays… And a Short Break
I will be taking some time off over the holidays to spend time with family, relax, reflect on our tremendous victories in 2008 and look forward to the coming year. I hope you do the same. Happy...
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Not Disappearing… Just Not Back Yet
Being a political blogger would be an amazing way to make a living -- if only one could make a living doing it. Hell, I would probably settle for a partial living, a pittance even. Alas, it pays...
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New Book, New Blog
I may come back to covering the U.S. Senate at some point but am now working on a book that focuses on the human aspect of post-war America and, much more specifically, the real impact the wars in...
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