A new Senate resolution, sponsored by Harry Reid, is calling for the withdrawal of troops to start in the next 120 days and be complete by March, 2008: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today joined Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer, Democratic Conference Secretary Patty Murray, Senator Russ Feingold, and […]
Pleosi has released the following statement: Today’s guilty verdicts are not solely about the acts of one individual. This trial provided a troubling picture of the inner workings of the Bush Administration. The testimony unmistakably revealed – at the highest levels of the Bush Administration – a callous disregard in handling sensitive national security information […]
Today’s Washington Post tells us that NOW 7 GOP Senators want to debate the Warner/Levin amendment, making this one of the biggest WTF moments in recent history: Senate Republicans who earlier this week helped block deliberations on a resolution opposing President Bush’s new troop deployments in Iraq changed course yesterday and vowed to use every […]
One of the key reasons for the Democrats victory this past year was attributed to the ethic problems in Washington. Even Bush admitted that. Now the Senate Republicans do not want to fix the ethic problems: Senate Republicans scuttled broad legislation last night to curtail lobbyists’ influence and tighten congressional ethics rules, refusing to let […]
Erica Werner from the AP reports this: Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did not break Senate rules in accepting free ringside seats at boxing matches from the Nevada Athletic Commission, the Ethics Committee has concluded. The committee disclosed the determination in a Dec. 7 letter to Las Vegas resident Robert Rose, who had filed […]