Top Chinese legislator meets with U.S. president
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
China's top legislator Wu Bangguo met with visiting U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday in Beijing.
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Mark Accuses PDP Leadership of Complicity
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ahead of tomorrow's strategy session by senators elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the impasse created by the 2010 budget presentation, Senate President, Senator David Mark, has blamed leadership of the PDP for the face-off between the Senate and the House of Representatives over the venue of the joint session to receive the budget from President...
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Someone Needs to Tell CNN's Webmaster that Lou Dobbs Quit [President Dobbs]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Whoops. It's been nearly two weeks since Lou Dobbs quit CNN to run for president or Senate or whatever, but he's still on CNN's anchor page doing his trademark "I hate immigrants" face. Maybe someone...
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Nigeria: Budget Crisis - We're Ready to Receive Yar'Adua - Reps
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The House of Representatives yesterday said it is fully prepared to jointly host President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and receive the 2010 Appropriation Bill with their Senate counterpart in the House chambers in line with tradition and directive of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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I Am Not Bitter Over VP Post - Naison Ndlovu
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Zanu-PF Politburo Member and Deputy President of the Senate Cde Naison Ndlovu says he is not bitter after losing to national chairman Cde John Nkomo in the race for the Vice Presidency.
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Hope dims over presentation of 2010 budget this week
turenchi (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
•Second Republic lawmaker blames PDP, Mark; Bamidele Aturu asks Yar’Adua to jettison joint sitting Hope of President Umaru Yar’Adua presenting the 2010 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly, this week dimmed weekend as the Senate insisted that the budget presentation must b
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Yar?Adua Submits Budget, off to S'Arabia for Medicals
turenchi (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barring any last minute change in plans, the gridlock over the presentation of the 2010 budget will be broken at 10a.m. today as President Umaru Musa Yar?Adua will present the vital document to the National Assembly by proxy. Meanwhile, the president last night left the country for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for medical check-up. This is said to be a follow-up to a similar check-up in...
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Nigeria: PDP Intact - Mark
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
President of the Senate, Senator David Mark yesterday declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is very much intact. He described the statement made by Action Congress National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, as amusing and clearly off the mark.
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Divided National Assembly
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The Constitution succinctly states in Section 53 (2): At any joint sitting of the Senate and House of Representatives, (a) the President of the Senate shall preside, and in his absence the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall preside; and (b) in the absence of the persons mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection, the Deputy President of the Senate shall...
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Lack of planning, bane of Nigeria’s development –Nnamani
turenchi (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Former Senate president, Chief Ken NnamaniFormer president of the Senate, Dr. Ken Nnamani, has blamed the problem of development in Nigeria on inadequate planning by those in charge of governance in the country.Nnamani said Nigeria ...Former president of the Senate, Dr. Ken Nnamani, has blamed the problem of development in Nigeria on inadequate planning by...
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A question of contempt --
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Is it a sign of a significant shift in Parliament? We refer of course to what can only have been a severe censure of a junior minister by the President of the Senate, Senator Danny Montano, for failing to answer a question that had been on the Order Paper since last May. Possibly it may have been a reaction to the fact that requested information relating to the National Academy of Performing...
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Congressman Fattah: Thanks to Specter, Casey for a Major Step Along History's Path
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
"Senators Arlen Specter and Bob Casey deserve the thanks of Philadelphians and all Pennsylvanians for casting stand-up, critical votes in the Senate tonight advancing President Obama's historic Affordable Health Care Reform legislation to full debate. The President and the Senate leaders are to be commended for their leadership on health care. Work remains to be done, both...
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What Matters
Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Don Surber on the ratings boost Oprah got from the Palin interview. No. 1 best seller. Goosing Oprah’s ratings. Let’s see Joe Biden top that. Um, okay. The state of the vote for Vice President of the United States, as delivered to the President of the Senate, is as follows: The whole number of the electors appointed to vote for Vice [...]
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US only holdout on UN child rights treaty after Somalia announces intent to ratify
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... Human Rights Watch said Thursday that "US ratification is long over-due" and urged the president and Senate to ratify the convention. In June, US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said that the Obama administration is seeking ways to have the US sign on to the treaty. In 1995, then-president Bill Clinton signed the CRC, but never submitted it to be ratified by the Senate....
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Merkley Gets The Golden Gavel
Preemptive Karma (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
This is an award that any freshman US Senator that acts as presiding officer for 100 hours or more during any given session gets. The Veep is, of course, President of the Senate, but the Veep can't be there all the time, so it falls to the President pro tem, which is Sen Byrd of West Virginia. But what he typically does is delegate that.