Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Incumbent Kansas senator claims U.S. is heading towards "National Socialism"

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I found this Talking Points Memo story through Kevin Drum, and even I can't believe it.  From Talking Points Memo: Incumbent Sen. ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Senate candidate Hoekstra wants to create a National Birther Office

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I'm trying to wrap my head around Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) crazy idea of creating a "national birther office." From T...
Friday, March 26, 2010

Cantor spokesman defends bullet claim as legit threat at press conference

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The Cantor shooting scandal just keeps getting better. This is from Greg Sargent's blog: A spokesperson for Eric Cantor is pushing bac...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

GOP Rep. Eric Cantor says shots fired in his campaign office

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This is from the Richmond Times-Dispatch: 3:40 p.m. The Richmond Police Department is investigating an act of vandalism agsinst the Reagan B...

GOP Senator Lindsey Graham refuses to work with Democrats, saying "well has been poisoned."

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I found this story through the Washington Monthly. Seems like South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has been drinking Senator ...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Biden drops the F-bomb during health care bill signing

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Oh my. It appears that Vice President Joe Biden just dropped a dirty F-bomb right after introducing President Barack Obama during the heal...

Obama signs health care bill into law

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President Obama signed major health care legislation into law on Tuesday. Doug Mills/The New York Times Well, it is now official. President...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

House passes health care reform, Obama to sign.

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I've been busy with a number of things, but I've been watching the events taking place on the health care debate. After the Senate ...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

Bunning blinks, drops filibuster on unemployment benefits bill

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It has been a busy week, however, I did notice that our favorite, demented, Senator Jim Bunning has backed down from his one-man filibuster...
Monday, March 01, 2010

Bunning's filibuster cuts pay to doctors

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The Bunning filibuster fiasco continues to drive itself into the Crazies Zone. Now apparently, Bunning's filibuster is causing a pay cu...

GOP Senator Jon Kyl claims unemployment benefits make people not want to work

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Is it me, or has the Republican Party followed Jim Bunning over a cliff? From The Huffington Post: A debate on the Senate floor Monday ove...

GOP Senator Jim Bunning filibusters Senate vote to extend unemployment benefits

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I've been watching this story over the weekend, and I'm just fascinated at this latest Senate "train wreak" that has been ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

GOP leaders tell House Republicans to behave

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This is just very interesting. From Who Runs Gov, via Americablog: House GOP leaders are urging fellow Republicans to control their temper...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Senate Finance Committee approves health care bill with one Republican vote

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This is from The New York Times: WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee voted on Tuesday to approve legislation that would reshape the Am...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Burris will not run for Senate in 2010

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I guess Roland Burris finally realized just how Blago-radioactive he was for the Democrats in the Senate. From USA Today: WASHINGTON (AP) —...

Michael Jackson's death reverberates through the halls of Congress

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I honestly don't know what to say about this, except that I wonder if our congressmen have any frickin' brains in their thick skulls...

CIA lied to Congress

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In some ways, this really isn't surprising. From the New York Times: WASHINGTON — The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon...