Harry Reid has taken steps towards cleaning up the corruption in Congress with a bold move. He has banned all of his staff from accepting gifts from lobbyists. Via Raw Story: In a memo last night, Reid chief of staff Susan McCue instructed Reid staffers not to accept any gifts from lobbyists. The move is […]
Rep Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is now threatening to block the Patriot Act because of the extension: Via Raw Story: Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Frank James Sensenbrenner (R – WI) has rejected a Patriot Act compromise reached by the Senate. The Senate had agreed to extend controversial provisions of the […]
On a rather slow and quiet Tuesday about a month ago a hell broke loose on Capital Hill when Harry Reid shut down Senate to demand answers on the stalling of the next phase of the pre-war intelligence report. It lead to outbursts before the cameras and a new political fight. It also resulted in […]
When oil executives took to Capital Hill last month to testify before Senate about their profits, Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was outraged that Democrats would want them sworn in. What did he know? As it turns out, these executives lied when asked if they ever met with Cheney about energy policy. In fact they did […]
What a day. We have heard that the President is going to deliver this major speech today about progress in Iraq and lay out a plan for ending this war. Instead we got the same old rhetoric of “more of the same”. The White House has released a new guide entitled “National Strategy for Victory […]
Two weeks ago tomorrow was when Democrats shut down senate in order to get answers about the intelligence committees phase two report. That is the second part of the report that looks into the intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq. During that closed session, it was agreed upon that a committee be formed […]
Tuesday during the Senate shut down that Harry Reid caused, the Situation Room had James Carville on talking about the leak investigation. During his statements they were discussing the need for the vice-President to come clean on his involvement in the leak. I thought it was interesting when Carville said “we need the President to […]
Rule 21 of the Senate mandates that any time an issue is to be brought up on the Senate floor that could reveal classified information that the cameras be shut off, no electronic recording devices in the room and no staffers in the room. It is done so to protect national security. That is the […]
Harry Reid and the Democrats have made a strong stand today in the halls of Senate and the Senate has now gone to closed door meetings to discuss the indictment of Scooter Libby and the failure of intelligence for the war in Iraq. Reid, speaking to Senate prior to this late afternoon development barked at […]
Paul Hackett announced today that he will challenge Republican Mike Dewine next year. From today’s Cincinnati Enquirer: Hackett aims for Senate Democrat will challenge DeWine in 2006 election By David Hammer The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Paul Hackett, the Iraq War veteran who was hailed by national Democrats for his narrow loss this summer in […]