Badger Blog Alliance (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
From the LA Times : Ron Paul's forces quietly plot GOP convention revolt against McCain Virtually all the nation's political attention in recent weeks has focused on the compelling state-by-state presidential nomination struggle between two Democrats and the potential for party-splitting strife over there. But in the meantime, quietly, largely under the radar of most people, the forces of Rep. Ron...
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
House of Representatives is hosting al-Maliki tomorrow, Monday, (Voice of Iraq) - 11-05-2008 The Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud scene, Sunday, the Council will host the meeting tomorrow, Monday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, without specifying the reason for hosting, which coincide with the...
Mises Economics Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The US House of Representatives will hold hearings on energy markets trying to determine who is causing oil prices to rise. The anti-market investigation will blame hedge funds and investment banks for manipulating the markets to make oil go to record levels. Oil is too global a commodity for speculators to determine its price. We know, for instance, that oil prices are high not only in spot...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Remember Virgil Goode? Goode, whose name is pronounced like spreading goo rather than doing the right thing, entered Congress as a Democrat, but jumped to the GOP side when he feared being in the minority. Once on Team Bush, he remade himself as the man who is afraid of Muslims During today's House debate on Iraq, virulently anti-Muslim Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) said supporting the anti-escalation...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Barney Frank, the rumpled, cantankerous Massachusetts Democrat, has emerged as a key deal-maker in the House.
Lisa Law View (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
On May 1, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) by a 414-1 vote. The bill is designed to protect workers against discrimination based on genetic information. Now the bill heads to the Congress and is expected to be signed into law by President Bush. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act was first proposed more than 13 years...
Observing Japan (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The House of Councillors voted yesterday to reject the ten-year road construction plan passed by the House of Representatives in March. The bill was defeated 108 to 126, with DPJ (proportional representation) members Oe Yasuhiro and Watanabe Hideo rebelling against the party leadership to support the bill, and Kimata Yoshitake (Aichi) and Hironaka Wakako (Chiba) abstaining from the vote. The...
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing "Assessing the Evidence of Domestic Abstinence-Only [Sex Education] Programs," at which various public health experts opined that scientific...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Trade has become a hot and much discussed political topic. Both Democratic candidates have criticized NAFTA and other free trade agreements for hurting U.S. workers. Last month the Bush administration's proposed Colombia free trade agreement was blocked in the House of Representatives. Other proposed trade deals with South Korea and Panama could also face tough scrutiny. I talked about the issue...
Box Turtle Bulletin (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
We’ve just learned that thirty-three members of the Arizona House of Representatives approved SCR1042, the proposed anti-marriage amendment. The resolution passed 33-25, with two representatives not voting. You can see how each representative voted here. The battle now moves to the Senate. If SCR1042 passes the Senate, the proposed anti-marriage amendment goes onto the ballot [...]
Colorado Media Matters (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
On her May 9 1310 KFKA broadcast, Amy Oliver , director of operations for the "free-market" Independence Institute , uncritically allowed frequent guest Sean Conway to misrepresent Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and current U.S. Rep. Mark Udall's position on energy development on Colorado's Roan Plateau by stating that Udall "want[s] to prohibit all development" there. In fact, on April 17, U.S....
Bank Lawyer's Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Today's editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial entitled "The Biggest Housing Losers," answers the question "Who let the dogs out?" The WSJ points its finger at the Elton John of the House of Representatives, Barney Frank....
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
So says the New York Post, which reports that he is planning on seeking reelection : Defying disgusted constituents and angry Republican leaders, disgraced Rep. Vito Fossella has told pals he plans to seek re-election. And, shockingly, the Staten Island pol is feeling "pretty good," he confided to friends. Well, I guess it's nice that he feels pretty good. If I were facing a possible jail sentence...
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
I interviewed Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr this afternoon (video to come). He made some interesting points, including saying that McCain's nomination as the GOP candidate made his decision to run easy. ...
BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yup. A state which both elects an unashamed socialist (Bernie Senders) to the House of Representatives, and then the Senate, and which doesn't have any gun laws seems to me to have an usually strong grasp on the proper role of government. Incidentally, it's also beautiful. My wife and I went on a road trip to northern New England a few years ago, right before leaf-peeper season. We had a great...
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thevaneljounal.com | 04/11/2008
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) was booed over the weekend at a rally in her hometown. Rep. Jackson Lee is a Clinton supporter whose district overwhelmingly voted for Obama. This is a dilemma that many African American supporters of Clinton face throughout the country. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) has a challenger for the first time in years because his constituents felt that he did not change his...
Edward Printer | 03/14/2008
The House of Representatives agreed to go into a secret session Thursday night to debate revisions to federal surveillance laws, closing off the chamber for the first time since 1983 at the request of its Republican minority.
raimondo | 11/13/2007
Print | Close this window Former pilots and officials call for new U.S. UFO probe Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:01pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich may have been ridiculed for saying he had seen a UFO, but for some former military pilots and other observers, unidentified flying objects are no laughing matter. An international panel of two dozen former pilots and...
