Harry Reid is preparing to go nuclear on the constant filibustering Republicans have engaged in when it comes to President Obama’s nominees. Ole’ Mitch McConnell isn’t happy about that: Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell warned Harry Reid on Thursday that the Democratic majority leader’s “tombstone” will say he “presided over the end of the Senate” […]
Harry Reid is vowing to take on something that many of us have asked for – filibuster reform: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged on Wednesday to change the rules of the Senate so that the minority party has fewer tools to obstruct legislative business. In his first post-election press conference, the Nevada Democrat […]
Ummmm – ok? In the waning days of the lame duck session, the Senate had the opportunity to pass theDomestic Minor Sex Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act. Aimed at creating “a comprehensive, victim-centered approach to addressing the sex trafficking of minors,” the bill is “the first of its kind to deal with young trafficking […]
Don’t you just love a little domestic drama? Sen. John McCain’s wife Cindy appears in a new ad that harshly criticizes the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, and government officials and religious leaders generally, over what she and others describe as complicity in the bullying that has led to a rash of highly-publicized suicides […]
Ezra Klein lays out the odds of the GOP reducing the deficit should they regain control of Congress: If Republicans take the House and the Senate, how much likelier is a full extension of the Bush tax cuts? I’d say it goes up to 70 percent, and the only reason I don’t say 100 percent […]
The Defense Reauthorization Bill, which included repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, just fell to yet another GOP filibuster: Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation that would have repealed the law banning gays from serving openly in the military. The partisan vote was a defeat for Senate Democrats and gay rights advocates, who saw the bill […]
Sens. George Voinovich of Ohio and George LeMieux of Florida sided with Democrats to break a GOP filibuster on the small business bill. Remember when the GOP was all about reducing taxes, especially on small business? Yeah…neither do I.
Caroline Baum from Bloomberg has some very interesting advice for Democrats this fall: Congressional Democrats like to blame former President George W. Bush for just about everything: the lousy economy, high unemployment, trillion-dollar deficits, two wars – and probably the bedbug epidemic in New York City. With the 2010 midterm elections 10 weeks away, Democrats […]
Take a look at this story on CNN: Barely a month in office, Sen. Scott Brown, R-Massachusetts, is putting some muscle behind his independent image by twice voting against his own party and questioning the use of the filibuster. Brown took to the Senate floor Tuesday to announce he would vote for cloture, or to […]
Just now breaking on MSNBC that a deal has been struck to end the filibuster by Jim Bunning.