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Dysfunctional Body Politic: on the Senate docket today: DREAM, START, DADT
A new Senate hostage crisis? U.S. Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)(L) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) REUTERS/Jim Young President Obama is pressing for a second lame duck win Saturday with a vote...
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America Held Hostage: 9/11 first responders bill can pass, but only if corps...
The GOP hostage crisis continues, only this time, the ones holding the guns are the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who have ordered their lackeys in the U.S. Senate to effectively kill first responders who...
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The suddenly not-so-lame, lame duck Senate **UPDATE**
UPDATE: Republican Senators are now conceding the START treaty is likely to be ratified this week. After two years in which it seemed the United States Senate couldn’t get anything done, suddenly, in...
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111th Congress ends with a Christmas miracle
9/11 first responders will finally be made whole. Thank you, 111th Congress. The 111th Congress ended Wednesday with a flurry of legislation and bill signings, capping what historians are already...
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Arizona’s Kyl to join other old guard Senators in retirement
The Arizona Republic is reporting that Jon Kyl, the number two Republican in the U.S. Senate, will not seek a fourth term in 2012. Kyl joins Kay Bailey Hutchinson and a handful of “blue dog” Democrats...
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Kaine makes it official: he’ll run for VA Senate
Roll Call reports Tim Kaine has given the White House what it wants in Virginia: his candidacy for the U.S. Senate. Write RC: Donning a plaid shirt and sitting on the same Richmond porch steps where...
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Senate Republicans block bill to end oil company subsidies, Dems to tee up...
The men who rule America: (L-R) Exxon Mobil Corporation Senior Vice President Stephen Simon, Shell Oil Company President John Hofmeister, ConocoPhillips Executive Vice President John Lowe, Cheveron...
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**UPDATED: Barack Obama and the myth of the progressive ‘majorities’
To progressives who complain about Barack Obama “squandering” the progressive majorities he supposedly had going for him when he was elected president, I refer you to the following chart (from...
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Job killers: conservative Dems vote with GOP to kill Obama’s jobs bill in Senate
Ben Nelson does what Ben Nelson does... In the end, it’s important to remember that Congress exists, and that not all Democrats are the kind of Democrat that shares progressive values and goals. Every...
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**UPDATED: Republicans block teacher, first responder jobs bill with help...
Lieberman strikes again. In the end, two Democrats and Joe Lieberman voted with Republicans to filibuster a bite sized version of President Obama’s jobs bill. From The Hill: The measure, a piece of...
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