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Posted 5 days ago
One of Congress's most notoriously hawkish duos, Sen. John McCain [R, AZ] and Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I, CT], recently introduced legislation in response to President Obama's decision to try Umar Farou
Posted 5 days ago
This week seems like it was devoted to teeing up health care and next week is when the House will take a swing at it. Strained sports metaphors aside, it has been a very eventful week and next week lo
Posted 5 days ago
As Democrats were wrapping up, or so they thought, the health care bills last winter, two hot button social issues threatened to derail everything: abortion and immigration. With Democrats once again
Posted 6 days ago
Nobody know for sure what the Parliamentarian will rule, but Politico Pulse reports that sources are telling them something very different from what Republicans were claiming yesterday:But according t
Posted 6 days ago
In his State of the Union address, President Obama made a strong call for Congress to make earmarking more transparent. Instead, the House of Representatives has put in place new rules that bans most
Posted 6 days ago
Earlier this week, the House voted on a resolution (H.Con.Res.248) from Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D, OH-10] directing President Obama to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan within 30 days. As expect
Posted 6 days ago
Here is today's roundup of a few articles and blog posts from around the web that you should take a look at. Leading Democrats in the White House and Congress are starting to agree on what will be in
Posted 6 days ago
Roll Call cites senior GOP sources as saying the Senate parliamentarian has indicated that President Obama will have to sign the Senate health care bill (H.R.3590) into law before the Senate can
Posted 6 days ago
Criminal penalties for crack versus powder cocaine touch on a wide range of issues from race to state budgets to overcrowding of prisons. The Senate Judiciary Committee today took on the issue by unan
Posted 1 week ago
With the 2010 Census looming, many groups, including the Republican Party, have sent out fundraising mailings that are deceptively similar to the official Census form. Yesterday, the House unanimously
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