Later On (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have blogged earlier about how Reid has rolled into one bill all the various bills that were being held up because of one Senator, Tom Coburn (R-OK), who regularly puts a hold on bills for the sake of leverage: you want the hold removed, you rewrite the bill to Coburn’s specifications. But Reid’s approach has [...]
Right Wing Watch (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
It is almost time again for the annual Values Voter Summit, the political conference sponsored by the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, American Values, and others where right-wing activists gather to rant and rave, attack homosexuals, and suggest...
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Washington, DC - July 24, 2008 - John McCain's campaign questioned Barack Obama's commitment to stopping genocide. On his visit to Israel Obama proclaimed "never again" referencing the Holocaust. McCain's campaign quickly pounced with a press release saying that if Obama truly believed in "never again" and stopping genocide he would have supported the troop surge in Iraq. Reporters pointed out a statement...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
What a spring Sen. Joe Biden has had: President Bush signed into law: Biden's (and Sam Brownback's) Second Chance act, which appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars to help criminals transition back to society. Next week, Bush will sign PEPFAR, a global HIV/AIDS bill that Biden played a key role in shepharding through the Congress. He led a CODEL to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkey. His legislation...
Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A tri-partisan bill principally sponsored by Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS), Ken Salazar (D-CO) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) (S.3303) and Representatives Eliot Engel (D-NY-17), Jack Kingston (R-GA-1), Steve Israel (D-NY-2), and Bob Inglis (R-SC-4) (H.R.6559) would require that starting in 2012,...
Right Wing Watch (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Will John McCain and Barack Obama’s joint appearance next month at Saddleback Church be a friendly forum or a firing line? “Purpose Driven” megachurch pastor Rick Warren is a superstar among evangelicals, but he still drew heavy criticism from some Religious Right activists when he invited Obama (along with right-wing stalwart Sen. Sam Brownback) to a global AIDS conference at his church back in 2006....
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
To the Editor: Related (July 11, 2008) Re “The Justice Department, Blind to Slavery,” by John R. Miller (Op-Ed, July 11):Every year at least 14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked into the United States. From the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 through 2007, the Department of Justice has undertaken only about 110 sex trafficking prosecutions. This is a result of the onerous...
Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
U.S. Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS), Ken Salazar (D-CO) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) today introduced the Open Fuel Standard Act. The legislation would require that half of all new automobiles starting in 2012 be flex-fuel vehicles warranted to operate on gasoline, ethanol, and methanol, or be warranted to operate on biodiesel. The requirement would be increased [...]
NewsWatch: White House (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
(ap) "Thank goodness for John McCain" On a McCain campaign conference call with reporters today, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas declared the the surge strategy an unqualified success and gave the credit to John McCain -- saying if Obama...
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
For a while last year, Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) was a presidential candidate. He didn't think the Iraq troop surge would work. In a John McCain campaign teleconference this morning (this one I missed), he admitted that he was wrong, McCain was right on th Iraq troop surge. I was skeptical about the surge at that point and time. And he said this is what we've got to do and we did it and thank goodness...
The Real Clear Politics Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
About an hour after Barack Obama spoke from the Citadel in Amman, Jordan, the McCain campaign held a conference call with reporters highlighting the Illinois senator's "inexperience" on foreign policy. New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback and...
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
It is rare for a politician to admit he was wrong, but Sen. Sam Brownback did exactly that on a conference call today."I was wrong on the surge, and thankfully John prevailed on the surge," Brownback admitted.During his...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Having just received a conference call alert from the McCain campaign about a call that Sam Brownback will be leading, I realize that I can't remember the last time the Kansas senator has been seriously talked up as a veep choice. I think there's a wisdom to that -- he doesn't add much and he reinforces McCain's worst instincts on immigration. But he's also been loyally McCain since he dropped out...
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
More K-Lo goodness: Re Sam Brownback as a possible Veep for McCain: "He is obviously deeply and sincerely pro-life and he doesn't have a personality McCain would be threatened by." Yes, that there's the there that's there in her plausible commander-in-chief of a nation at war. The commander needs underlings whose personalities he doesn't find threatening.
Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
NEW YORK, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- As the oldest legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing and defending the rights of women and girls, Legal Momentum stands with our allies who work every day with trafficking victims to support the Senate version of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act co-sponsored by Senators Joe Biden and Sam Brownback....
