Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Sen. Gordon Smith loves gays and thinks hate crimes against them are awful. But discrimination, well, that's a different story. That's the kind of "moderate" he is.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers from both parties are challenging a Pentagon plan to study whether to transport deadly chemical weapons across state lines to speed their destruction.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Maria Cantwell has become a co-sponsor of the Healthy Americans Act, an effort to overhaul the nation's health care system led by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
The U.S. Department of Transportation has ordered Horizon Airlines to wait at least an extra month before cutting off its Pendleton-Portland service.
PortlandOnline (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Mayor Potter on Tuesday (7/1) attended a town hall hosted by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden on energy independence.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
By The Observer, La Grande, Ore. Jun. 30--Town hall, VA clinic on senator's agenda U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., will be in La Grande Wednesday to host a town hall meeting and be the keynote speaker at the opening of the new community-based outpatient clinic forveterans.
Paris Parfait (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Holding out for a hero. Statue of Christopher Columbus, Coit Tower, San Francisco. Thanks to the heroic efforts of 15 senators, a vote on providing amnesty to telecoms cooperating in warrantless government spying has been delayed until July 8. The...
Last Blog On Earth (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 80-15 to cut off debate of an overhaul of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that would force a judge to dismiss dozens of pending civil lawsuits against the telecommunications companies that assisted the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping campaign. So, here’s a shout out to the 15 senators who tried to stall [...]
Listics (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
The fifteen Senators who voted against telecom immunity (source HuffPo): Joseph Biden, DE Barbara Boxer, CA Sherrod Brown, OH Maria Cantwell, WA Chris Dodd, CT Dick Durbin, IL Russ Feingold, WI Tom Harkin, IA John Kerry, MA Frank Lautenberg, NJ Patrick Leahy, VT Robert Menendez, NJ Bernie Sanders, VT Chuck Schumer, NY Ron Wyden, OR Technorati Tags: FISA, telecom immunity, where’s waldo
BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
There's lots of news - national news - about Gordon Smith's false advertising campaign, in which he claims that Barack Obama "says Gordon Smith helped lead the fight for better gas mileage and a cleaner environment." First, an important point for the media hanging out here: Smith's claim is demonstrably false. Obama said no such thing. Demand the proof of the quote. Because the sources cited in Smith's...
First Draft (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Senate Chaplain: Please deliver us from the morons and attention whores in this chamber, and rendereth your healing powers upon Norm Coleman's gopher-fur toupee, in the name of the Lord, amen. Chris Dodd: Let's do dis. Mitch McConnell: If you're not putting on a rabbit suit and engaging in what I think the kids today call "yiffing," you don't have anything to worry about from being wiretapped! Chuck...
BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
On October 24, 2007, Barack Obama promised to support a filibuster of any FISA reform law that contained telecom immunity provisions. His position on the FISA bill currently before the Senate is murkier; he says he will support the bill and "work" to remove the telecom immunity. In what way he will work he does not say. When I called his campaign to urge him to filibuster the measure, the phone person...
Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Senator Chris Dodd(D-CT), along with Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) have all announced that they will filibuster the FISA legislation before the Senate, which passed the House last week with retroactive telecom immunity. Here is an excerpt of Senator Dodd's remarks from tonight . In the speech, Dodd not only expresses his opposition to retroactive immunity for telecoms, but...
The Poor Man Institute (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
It is so fucking on: Senators [The] Dodd (D-CT) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) released the following statement today in response to the announcement that the Senate this week will consider the compromise legislation that would reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) this week. “This is a deeply flawed bill, which does nothing more than offer retroactive [...]
BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
In a statement, Senator Ron Wyden announced that he would oppose the latest variation of the FISA bill and support a filibuster of the legislation. In 2007, he was one of just ten Senators that supported Senator Chris Dodd's filibuster (that failed, but managed to get the bill postponed to 2008.) In February, Senator Wyden was one of just 29 Senators to vote against an earlier FISA bill. He was also...
