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Jeff Poor While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his remarks by alluding to states that seek federal assistance in the wake of [...] Documents published online for the first time Thursday indicate that the FBI opened an inquiry into New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez on August 1, 2012, focusing on repeated trips he took to the Dominican Republic with longtime campaign contributor and Miami eye doctor Salomon Melgen. TheDC reported in November that Menendez purchased the service of prostitutes in that Caribbean nation at a series of alcohol-fueled sex parties. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/25/emails-show-fbi-investigating-sen-bob-menendez-for-sleeping-with-underage-dominican-prostitutes/#ixzz2J1Zr7MMZ The Guantanamo Bay detention centre could be closed and the 166 inmates could be sent to prisons in the US, according to a new government report. “This report demonstrates that if the political will exists, we could finally close Guantanamo without imperilling our national security,” said Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman who released the recommendations. The Government Accountability Office study shows that US prisons already hold 373 prisoners [...] From FT: A leading Democratic senator has said her party should be willing to go off the fiscal cliff in order secure tax rises on the wealthy, raising the stakes in year-end budget negotiations. “If the Republicans will not agree with that, we will reach a point at the end of this year where all the tax cuts expire and we’ll start over next year,” said Patty Murray, who was co-chair of last year’s [...] Todd Akin, a nominee for Senate in Missouri, made remarks in TV interview A Republican representative has said that women don’t become pregnant if they are the victim of a ‘legitimate’ rape while explaining his anti-abortion views on TV. Todd Akin, a nominee for Senate in Missouri, also [...] There may be some extra hotel space in Charlotte, N. C. come the beginning of September, as several Democratic elected officials have announced that they will not be attending the Democratic National Convention this year. Earlier today, Talking Points Memo reported that Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill will not be attending the convention, becoming the third Democratic senator, and eighth Democratic member of Congress, to opt out of the event. Late Tuesday she tweeted, ” [...] From Washington’s Blog: Treaty Threatens Global Government … Run by Giant Corporations The normally-reserved Yves Smith asks whether Obama should be impeached over it. Democratic Senator Wyden – the head of the committee which is supposed to oversee it – is so furious about the lack of access that he has introduced legislation to force disclosure. Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is so upset by it that he has leaked a document [...] Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and Republican Representative Darrell Issa have introduce an Internet Bill of Rights aiming to limit CIPSA and preserve online anonymity. This year it seems that Congress is attempting to sneak legislation that could alter the Internet forever, but their may be hope for Americans. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has bridged the political gap with Republican Representative Darrell Issa to come up with an Internet Bill of Rights. [...] Eighteen months after her death from cancer, Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of disgraced former Democratic Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards does not have a grave stone. Elizabeth Edwards died in December of 2010, almost one year after separating from her husband after he admitted to having fathered an illegitimate daughter, Frances Quinn, with his mistress Rielle Hunter during their affair which began in 2006. The Elizabeth Edwards plot features only a tiny [...] (WLNS) egislation under consideration in Lansing would allow owners of blighted and neglected property to be jailed if they fail to comply with repair orders. The bills are aimed at putting teeth into blight enforcement. The lead sponsor is Democratic Senator Virgil Smith of Detroit, who says he’s “sick and tired” of blighted properties in Detroit. He says Detroit and other Michigan cities need to be able to go after owners. The bills [...] Cheri Young agreed to pretend that Edwards’s child with Rielle Hunter was in fact her husband’s Disgraced Democratic Senator allegedly made it sound like lying ‘was for the good of the county’ Reuters reports:
Japan, with assistance from the U.S. government, needs to do more to move spent fuel rods out of harm’s way at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said U.S. Senator Ron Wyden on Monday. Wyden, a senior Democratic senator on the Senate Energy committee, toured the ruined Fukushima plant on April 6, and said the damage was far worse than he expected. “Seeing the extent of the disaster first-hand during my visit [...] WASHINGTON, DC (KTVQ) – Montana’s two US Senators did not commit to supporting a Republican bill, but they do want to see approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. Two bills aim to lock down the internet with a host of new government censorship powers. Two bills are moving through the Senate and the House at the moment, aimed at creating a host of new controls and regulations over the internet, and threatening to change the way everybody does business and interacts online. SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is the House’s attempt to severely censor the internet ostensibly in [...] From Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing. The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens [...] Bloomberg Markets Magazine The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing. The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens [...] Republican Congressman Connie Mack changed his mind late last month about challenging longtime Democratic Senator Bill Nelson in 2012, and now he finds himself with a modest edge over the incumbent in the first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Florida’s U.S. Senate race. The latest statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state shows Mack with 43% to Nelson’s 39%. (Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four years ago, Senator Claire McCaskill was one of Barack Obama’s biggest boosters in his presidential campaign. But when he recently visited her state of Missouri, she did not have time to join him. Many of McCaskill’s fellow Democrats in Congress may also decide they are too busy to be with Obama, whose approval rating of about 40 percent as the economy struggles threatens to be [...] A 100 yuan banknote (R) is placed next to a $100 banknote in this picture illustration … WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Wednesday voiced concern that legislation the Senate is expected to approve this week designed to press China to let its currency rise could violate international trade rules. While reiterating that it shared lawmakers’ desire to ensure that U.S. workers and businesses face a level [...] President Obama insisted Friday he was prepared to make “tough choices” for a sweeping deficit-reduction deal to avert a U.S. default, despite being warned by Democrats not to make too many concessions. AP With the deadline to raise the U.S. debt ceiling now just 11 days away, Obama appealed for compromise by both parties as he and the top Republican in Congress, House Speaker John Boehner, [...] Wisconsin Sen. Herb Koh l will announce his retirement today according to an informed Democratic source, a decision that sets up a competitive open seat contest in a state that has already drawn considerable national attention this year. – WP via cnet: A Democratic senator is preparing to introduce legislation that aims to end the golden era of tax-free Internet shopping. The proposal–expected to be made public soon after Tax Day–would rewrite the ground rules for Internet and mail order sales by eliminating the ability of Americans to shop at Web sites like Amazon.com and Overstock.com without paying state sales taxes. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second most senior Senate [...] |
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