Will Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota support S1584, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) ? Though he might seem to be leaning yes, we don't know where he is on this important bill. Please call him and ask. I remind you that there will be a Senate hearing next Thursday, November 5, which we will be liveblogging here at Bilerico. Please join us at 10 a.m. to get commentary as the Committee...
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- A number of news outlets are reporting Wednesday that Connecticut Sen. Christopher J. Dodd will continue as chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, a development that would close off any prospect for Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed to take the job. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's recent death gave rise to much speculation about...
President Barack Obama's plan to recast how the government regulates Wall Street could be thrown a curve this fall if Sen. Tim Johnson, a Democrat whose home state is a major hub for credit card companies, takes over the chairmanship of the Senate's banking committee.
A few weeks back I looked at the prospects for meaningful financial sector reform in the US, and ended on a decidedly pessimistic note. To recap, health care and climate change will soak the congressional agenda and shrink Obama's political capital, leaving an overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory structure for a less accommodating political environment in 2010. The Politico agrees, in a wonky...
by Jonathan Hiskes What do they know that we don’t'A scoop in The New York Times doesn’t surprise me. A scoop from nine months into the future does. This morning the Times Environment page featured a ClimateWire story dated May 15, 2010. “Senators Spend Recess Fine-Tuning Messages on Cap and Trade” finds Senate Democrats still hand-wringing over the proper messaging of a climate...
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Jack Reed figures in the speculation about which Senate Democrats will take on powerful new positions in the wake of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death. Like any departure from the Senate, the passing of the Massachusetts Democrat will ripple through the seniority system, particularly as his Democratic colleagues select one of their own to...
Kobie Diallo Williams, 36, convicted of conspiring to unlawfully possess firearms by an alien and supporting the Taliban, has been sentenced to prison, U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson, FBI Houston Division Special Agent in Charge Richard C. Powers and David Kris, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's National Security Division, announced today. Full release.
Senator Tim Johnson is now a big spending Democrat as he supports another $2 Billion for taxpayer funding purchases of cars that will be destroyed: According to Johnson, "help is on the way" for the Cash for Clunkers program, an...
From the Federal Bureau of Investigation PRESS RELEASE July 27, 2009 HOUSTON — Gregoria Vasquez-Salgado and her son, David Salazar, have entered pleas of guilty to harboring an illegal alien, United States Attorney Tim Johnson and acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Loretta King announced today. Vasquez, 59, is a Mexican citizen, while Salazar, 28, [...]
From The Hill : Senate Democrats on Wednesday banded together to defeat — barely — a Republican proposal to allow concealed weapons to be carried across state lines. Voting 58-39, the chamber beat back an amendment by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a potential presidential hopeful who has taken on a growing role among Senate Republicans, that would have permitted weapons to be transferred from...
Tim Johnson is leaving McClatchy’s China Rises blog. For China-related matters, it was essential reading, on par with Wang Daiyu’s Islam in China blog. I am very sad to see him go. a Tim Johnson is leaving McClatchy’s Chin… a Tim Johnson is leaving McClatchy’s Chin…
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama nominated Brendan Johnson, the 34-year-old son of Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., on Friday to serve as U.S. attorney for South Dakota.
The Senate just voted on the Credit Card Regulation Bill (H.R. 627). It passed 90-5. I missed one 'nay' vote, but I noticed four of them: Jon Kyl of Arizona, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, and John Thune and Tim Johnson of South Dakota. Senator Johnson is, of course, a Democrat. I'd like to remind people that the Senate's version of H.R. 627 (unlike the House's) has no 'cramdown' provision that would...
WASHINGTON, April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Loretta King and Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas Tim Johnson announced that Maximino Mondragon, 57, was sentenced today for his role in a scheme to smuggle Central American women and girls into the United States and to hold them in a condition of forced labor in the Houston
Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Loretta King and Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas Tim Johnson today announced the arrest of a former trooper with the Texas... This is a mere summary. Go to http://www.backgroundnow.com/blog for the real deal.
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