Barbara Boxer is out in front on climate change in the Senate. As a result, she spent much of Tuesday sitting by herself. From the beginning, it was a bizarre day for Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee and the climate-change debate in general. Making good on their boycott threats from last week, none of the seven committee Republicans were in their seats at the start of Tuesday's hearing....
U.S. Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, said Friday he hoped the Holy Spirit would inspire voters to come out in droves against a plan to put casinos in the state's major cities. Separately, an organization opposing the casinos tried to draw more attention to a key casino backer's arrest on a gambling charge 27 years ago.
Ohio is a key state in the fight for ENDA. Senator Voinovich is a fair-minded Republican who seems to be leaning yes on ENDA. He voted for the hate crimes bill on several occasions, and was one of five Republican Senators who voted last week to stop the Republican filibuster on that bill . That's key in terms of bringing ENDA to an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor, where we only need 50 votes (...
by Brad Johnson Cross-posted from the Wonk Room . John Kerry testifying.This week, hearings begin in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733). This comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation , co-sponsored by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and committee chair Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), will establish a mandatory global warming...
By Barbara Sowell This October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, or didn’t you know? A better title would have been: National Cyber Insecurity Awareness Month. We should all be insecure since the U.S. has just relinquished its control of the internet (see below)! This is the time when all internet junkies should ponder the very real possibility of waking up one day to NO internet! A...
Quinnipiac (9/8-10, likely voters, 6/26-7/1 in parentheses): Ted Strickland (D-inc) : 46 (43) John Kasich (R) : 36 (38) (MoE: ?3%) There's some definite improvement in the Ohio Governor's race, where a number of summertime polls showed incumbent Dem Ted Strickland leading John Kasich within the margin error. Strickland's putting a little more distance between himself and the ex-Rep., now holding a...
Aug 6: Although the Car Allowance Rebate Systems (CARS) or “Cash for Clunkers” program has been overwhelmingly popular with consumers, it was able to secure additional funding with the help of just six Senate Republicans [ See WIMS 8/3/09 ]. The funding authorization bill, H.R. 3435, a supplemental appropriations for FY 2009, that passed the House 316-109 last week (incl. 77 Republicans),...
The Senate voted to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court today, making her the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice and just the third woman to sit on the court. The 55-year-old Sotomayor, who was confirmed by a vote of 68-31, will be sworn in on Saturday at the Court. Despite strong and vocal opposition from some Senate Republicans, nine GOP senators voted for her confirmation,...
The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, despite Kentucky's two senators and 29 others voting against her. Ohio's two senators - Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, and George Voinovich, a Republican - were among the 68 senators who voted in favor of the nomination.
Kathleen Parker : In a fusillade of pique, Ohio Sen. George Voinovich charged that Southerners are what's wrong with the Republican Party. "We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns," he told an interviewer with the Columbus Dispatch, referring to GOP senators from South Carolina and Oklahoma. "It's the Southerners. They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr.' People hear them and say, 'These...
It looks like Senator George RINOvich does it again! For again sticking his Golden RINO horn up the a$$-crack of conservatism, Sen. George RINOvich -- is once again the recepient of the award created in his honor -- The Senator George Voinovich "Golden RINO Award." Our can't be retired soon enough Senator from OH was awarded his own award last week for making the idiotic statement of, "...
? FL-Sen : Charlie Crist got an endorsement today from one of the guys who was considered to be one of the likeliest GOP nominees up until the point when, well, Crist got into the race: Rep. Vern Buchanan. (If you're keeping score among Florida's Reps., the Diaz-Balarts and Cornelius McGillicudy IV have endorsed Crist, while Jeff Miller has endorsed Rubio.) ? IL-Sen : Rep. Mark Kirk has drawn another...
Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio either had a moment of clairvoyance this afternoon or just enjoys opening up a North/South civil war in his suggestion of who is to blame for the current failure of the Republican Party. Via The Hill's Briefing Room ... "We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns," Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) told the Columbus Dispatch. "It's the southerners."...
The party of Dukes Of Hazzard. ‘We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns,’ Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) told the Columbus Dispatch. ‘It’s the southerners.’ Voinovich, a native Clevelander who retires after the 2010 election, continued after the southern elements of the GOP. ‘They get on TV and go ‘errrr, errrrr,” he said. ‘People hear them...
A long-anticipated evaluation of the D.C. Public Schools from the U.S. Government Accountability Office was released yesterday. The top line finding? "Important steps taken to continue reform efforts, but enhanced planning could improve implementation and sustainability." No shockers there. The report praised initiatives that have been implemented by schools chancellor Michelle Rhee since...
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