Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress.
It gives the government and corporations the ability...
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http://vimeo.com/31100268
President Obama lauded the late Sen.
Robert C. Byrd today for keeping faith with his family, his state of West Virginia and his beloved U.S. Constitution. "He was a Senate icon, he was a party leader, he was an elder statesman, and he was my friend," Obama told thousands who gathered for Byrd's funeral.
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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/07/obama-biden-byrd-funeral/1
The demise of Democrats' jobs-agenda legislation means unemployment benefits will phase out for more than 200,000 people a week.
Governors who had counted on fresh federal aid will now have to consider more budget cuts, tax increases and layoffs of state workers. The House may try to revive the long-stalled jobless aid bill next week as a standalo
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/25/house-standalone-jobs-bill_n_626309.html
The ABC News interactive state map and 2010 election guide to the midterm House, Senate and Governor's elections.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2010_Elections/page?id=10476449
The Wall Street reform bill may eventually pass in the Senate but not before it faces a filibuster Monday, according to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Fox News' Chris Wallace pressed Sen.
McConnell (R-KY) Sunday on whether he would have the 41 senators needed to filibuster the bill when it comes up for a floor vote Monday. "It's my...
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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0425/mcconnell-predicts-filibuster-financial-reform/
It's frustrating that a law this sweeping was swept under the Obamacare rug.
The Senate never introduced a student loan reform bill. It never held a hearing. And proposed changes to the student loan program were never even considered by lawmakers at the committee level. If the tables were turned, Democrats would be crying foul and demanding an eth
Even as a House Democratic leader admitted that Democrats are still lacking votes, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs proclaimed on CBS' "Face the Nation" that "this is the week" that the House will pass the Senate's health-care reform bill.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/03/gibbs-this-is-the-week-that-he.html
In snowy Washington, two Democrats joined all Republicans to block the nomination of Craig Becker to sit on the National Labor Relations Board from moving forward with a vote tally of 52-33.
With 15 Senators missing, the vote tally fell eight votes short of the 60 necessary to pass.....
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http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/02/09/national-labor-relations-board-nominee-blocked-in-the-senate/
The Volcker plan does nothing about this.
The best solution would be an ad valorem transactions tax, a "Tobin tax" of, say, 0.05% on every trade. This wouldn't add much cost to legitimate investing, but it would make the "fast trading,"
Not to worry, this will never even be raised, let alone watered down
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/1/832958/-Volcker-Rule-Seems-Headed-for-Senate-Fizzle
Erroll Southers, President Obama's nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration, has withdrawn his name from consideration, a Senate aide confirmed Wednesday.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/01/tsa_nominee_erroll_southers_wi.html
Even if Democrats lose the special
election to pick a new Massachusetts senator Tuesday, Congress
may still pass health-care overhaul through a process called
reconciliation, a top House Democrat said.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aPg2UfFaCh9c&pos=9
The cap-and-trade bill that passed the House and is still pending in the Senate will increase food prices by 4.5 percent by 2050 by encouraging landowners to re-forest 59 million acres of farmland by that time.
SecAg Tom Vilsack knows it and now wants to hide that inconvenient truth.
Michigan congressman Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, said the White House and the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives have been pressuring him not to speak out on so-called "compromise language" regarding taxpayer-funding of health plans that cover abortion in the Senate's health car
The jury found Stevens guilty of "knowingly and willfully" scheming to conceal on Senate disclosure forms more than $250,000 in home renovations and other gifts from an Alaska-based oil industry contractor.
Get the low-down here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/27/stevens.jurors/index.html
