Political Byline (Free subscription) | yesterday
This comes via my friend R. S. McCain: Sean Duffy is a Republican district attorney who is challenging Rep. David Obey in Wisconsin’s 7th District. Donate to the cause. Related Posts: The Automotive Bailouts: The Other Side of the Story Two Movies on Liberty Lies, Damned Lies and more Lies Updated:A Million people attend 9/12 project protest in D.C. – Think [...]
Stix Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
So What. That is what CONgress critter David Obey told people that were concerned over the Porkulus Bill. It needed to get passed without any time to actually read it and see what is in the Bill. SO WHAT. Well, we have 10.2% unemploymemnt. SO WHAT. We have a $13 Trillion debt SO WHAT. I want to [...] Related posts: Bi-Partisanship Michelle Malkin live blogging the Obamacare Bill Ren & Stimpy Happy...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Green Bay — The nephew of a man who died on the shipwrecked Edmund Fitzgerald is trying to save an endangered Great Lakes freighter whose crew at the time tried to help the doomed ship. The Arthur M. Anderson was trailing the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975. Its crew members risked their own safety by turning back into the storm after the Fitzgerald disappeared from the radar screen. The Anderson...
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A Courtesy to our Friends at KOS DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED TO SLAP WOMEN BACK TO THE STONE AGE ( HR # Bill: H R 3962 ) KOS diarist LaFeminista reflects the animus the Soros-left have after the passsage of the Stupak Amendment which, nominally, will keep Obamacare from funding abortion. In truth, a Medicare type supplement insurance will be available. Anyway, to help them out, and make retribution easier,...
Maritime News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has opted to exempt 13 Great Lakes steamships from a new rule requiring freighters operating in coastal and inland waters to move to low-sulfur diesel. The E.P.A. grandfathered those ships after intense lobbying from Great Lakes carriers, leading mid-Western Democrats (including House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, Democrat of Wisconsin)...
Politico (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
David Obey is using an annual spending bill to exempt home state interests from new environmental rules.
trucks world news (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
The Obama administration is seeking to enact strict air pollution controls for ships that navigate both along the coasts and on the Great Lakes Washington,DC,USA - The Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee,WIS), by Diana Marrero -Oct. 12, 2009: ... But federal regulators could see their efforts undercut by an unlikely detractor: U.S. Rep. David Obey , a veteran Democratic lawmaker and avid environmentalist...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Today on Uncommon Knowledge, political scientist David Brady and economist Daniel Kessler weigh in on some of the more the baffling aspects of the young administration of Barack Obama. One of the items they discuss: the so-called stimulus package. The president permitted the Democratic leadership of the House to draft the legislation, with the entirely predictable result that they landed the country...
Bill Baar's West Side (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Bipartisan consensus building on A-Stan strategy. America's not as divided as some would have us think. Via FP , Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, the head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, came out Tuesday in strong agreement with the Afghanistan assessment put forth by General Stanley McChrystal and promised to fully fund any forthcoming troop increase there. The stance of the powerful Hawaii lawmaker...
Capitol Briefing (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
By Ben Pershing The House and Senate Democratic leaders already appear to have their differences on the way forward in Afghanistan. Now the two men who control the purse strings for the federal government have also parted ways on the subject. In the span of just a few hours Tuesday, the chairmen of the House and Senate appropriations committees -- both Democrats -- made markedly different public statements...
The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
GQ released its much anticipated " Power 50 " list on Tuesday, the first compendium of Washington's most influential players in the Obama era, with a PR blitz and a glitzy Washington cocktail party celebrating the magazine's November issue . The rankings are sure to excite and roil the Beltway, where the score is often more important than the game, and in a nod to Change, this list is actually...
democrats.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
By David Swanson Congressman David Obey (D., Wis.) is the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. He's in charge of spending our money. And until this week, he has always maintained that spending hundreds of billions of our dollars on wars was something he just had no choice about. Two years ago, 183,000 people watched this Youtube video , which was also shown on tv news shows, of Obey screaming...
Politico (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Rep. David Obey calls Afghanistan's gov't 'almost useless" and draws a comparison with Vietnam.
Blog for Clean Air (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A couple of items out this morning about the effort by some special interests to sink proposed EPA rules to clean up big dirty diesel ships. This backroom drama is playing out as key members of Congress prepare to go behind closed doors to work out details of the EPA’s upcoming budget. BNA Daily Environment Report (excerpt below) reports that Murphy Oil Company, which has objected to an EPA plan...
My view by Silvio Canto, Jr. (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Where are we? We have a president who was very decisive about flying to Denmark to promote Chicago 2016. Don't get me wrong. I'm OK with bringing the Olympics to Chicago or any other US city. Here is my question: Does Pres BO have to go? Couldn't he send Michelle and let her speak for Chicago? What about the timing of this trip? It couldn't be worse for a man caught up in huge issues such as the economy,...
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