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More South Carolina Republicans irked by their senator’s compromising ways

January 5th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Climate change, Congress, Energy, Environment, Immigration, Senate
A second South Carolina Republican Party leader rebuked the state's senior senator, Lindsey Graham, on Monday night. Rich Bohlen, chairman of the Lexington County GOP, said his committee approved a resolution objecting to Graham's vote in favor of last year's... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IRRJ3HrpiN4xKdW5RqZxGiInDZY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IRRJ3HrpiN4xKdW5RqZxGiInDZY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IRRJ3HrpiN4xKdW5RqZxGiInDZY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IRRJ3HrpiN4xKdW5RqZxGiInDZY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TP-OnPolitics/~4/GdPrcHVmrfE" height="1" width="1"/

C-SPAN: Televise health care negotiations

January 5th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Congress, Health care
C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb today asked congressional leaders of both parties to "open all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings, to electronic media coverage." During the campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama criticized Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Clinton administration for... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ELmqr3zG76xMVAq6nLg4TSmrOz0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ELmqr3zG76xMVAq6nLg4TSmrOz0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ELmqr3zG76xMVAq6nLg4TSmrOz0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ELmqr3zG76xMVAq6nLg4TSmrOz0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TP-OnPolitics/~4/SSIWr3Kb_qg" height="1" width="1"/

Ho! ho! ho!! A Merry Senate Christmas!!!

December 22nd, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Congress
It's official: The Senate will be holding votes the day before Christmas. We're just waiting for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to tell us whether the roll calls will take place before or... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XZmIyk1CF_dlPawumw2CunFwfS4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XZmIyk1CF_dlPawumw2CunFwfS4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XZmIyk1CF_dlPawumw2CunFwfS4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XZmIyk1CF_dlPawumw2CunFwfS4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TP-OnPolitics/~4/5QXvT-KY6G8" height="1" width="1"/

Health care goal posts still receding?

December 16th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Abortion, Congress, Health care
First the plan was to get a health care bill passed by August. Then the deadline was Christmas. More lately, Democratic congressional leaders have been talking about getting a health care bill on President Obama's desk for him to sign... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NyncPyMeYc-CZ6eedeVrGvxRymo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NyncPyMeYc-CZ6eedeVrGvxRymo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NyncPyMeYc-CZ6eedeVrGvxRymo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NyncPyMeYc-CZ6eedeVrGvxRymo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TP-OnPolitics/~4/6J7ZOs9GMwk" height="1" width="1"/

Report: Rep. Murtha hospitalized

December 14th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Congress, Democrats
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., has been hospitalized with abdominal pains, according to the Associated Press. Matt Mazonkey, a spokesman for Murtha, told the AP that the congressman was admitted to National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Sunday night...


Is your congressman on Twitter?

November 23rd, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Congress
Want to know what your congressman is doing? Check out tweetcongress.org. Tweet Congress convenes their own joint session of Congress online 24/7 by keeping track of Congress’ tweets. According to Wynn Netherland, TweetCongress.org’s co-founder, “We came up with the idea...


Ethics panel reprimands Sen. Burris

November 20th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Congress
The Senate's ethics committee has formally admonished Illinois Sen. Roland Burris for making misleading statements and having contacts with associates of indicted former governor Rod Blagojevich in connection with Burris' appointment to the Senate. The committee said it did not...


Sen. Byrd to become longest-serving member of Congress

November 17th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Congress, Democrats, History
Two days before his 92 birthday Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., will become the longest-serving member of Congress in history. Tomorrow will be Byrd’s 20,774 day in Congress, or 56 years and 320 days. West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin will hold...