Sens. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are threatening to filibuster gun-control legislation, according to a letter they plan to hand-deliver to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office on Tuesday. [Politico] AS USUAL, the conservative gun extremists didn’t use the word “filibuster” in their letter. “We will oppose the motion to proceed to any [...]
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Democratic Failure to Reform Filibuster Lets NRA Gun Extremists Take Out Caitlin Halligan
There are four vacancies on the D.C. Circuit court. The nomination of Sri Srinivasan, Obama’s deputy solicitor general, has not yet gotten a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee. In his first term, Obama did not get a single nominee onto the court. Overall, eighteen of Obama’s judicial nominees are currently awaiting confirmation. [Washington Post] [...]
Rand Paul Lays Out Grand Old Party, Wows CPAC Younger Voters
“The GOP of old has grown stale and moss covered,” declared Rand Paul to resounding cheers from an enthusiastic—and youthful—audience who not only agreed with his message, but illustrated it. [Daily Beast] AT CPAC, Senator Rand Paul is the big draw. “Stand with Rand” t-shirts and stickers were everwhere. “I think the future of the [...]
The Sheer Ineptitude of Eric Holder
“I’m quite happy with the answer and I’m disappointed it took a month and a half and a root canal to get it.” – Senator Rand Paul on CNN WHY DIDN’T Attorney General Eric Holder just send this letter out earlier? I guess the White House wasn’t expecting Senator Rand Paul to pitch a filibuster [...]
Top Story — Rand Paul Makes Democrats Look Feckless on Civil Liberties, Should Worry GOP 2016 Hopefuls
1:27 a.m. | Updated WASHINGTON — A small group of Republicans, led by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, stalled the Senate on Wednesday by waging a nearly 13-hour old-school, speak-until-you-can-speak-no-more filibuster over the government’s use of lethal drone strikes — forcing the Senate to delay the expected confirmation of John O. Brennan to lead the [...]
Sen. Rand Paul Filibusters John Brennan the Old Fashioned Way *Updated*
“I will speak until I can no longer speak.” – Senator Rand Paul IT BEGAN at 11:45 a.m. today. Love his politics or detest him for his literalism, Senator Rand Paul is doing it his way and at least stands for something. After the Senate Intelligence Committee forwarded President Obama’s CIA nominee John Brennan to [...]
Elizabeth Warren Fillets Regulators: “Too Big to Fail” Becomes “Too Big for Trial” [Video]
“They violated every goddamn law in the book,” says Jack Blum, an attorney and former Senate investigator who headed a major bribery investigation against Lockheed in the 1970s that led to the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. “They took every imaginable form of illegal and illicit business.” – Gangster Bankers Too Big to [...]
Saddle Up, Leon, Hagel Vote Fails 58-40 (Blame the Filibuster)
Fox.com Headline, which has now been changed… Republicans vow to go to war with filibuster over Hagel INHOFE’S FILIBUSTER was hilarious in one regard, which was he actually felt compelled to go to the Senate floor to say it wasn’t a filibuster, even though 51, not 60, votes is a majority. It made Republicans [...]
Reid Schedules Vote on Hagel for Friday, Republicans Set to Filibuster *Update – HAGEL BLOCKED*
[UPDATE] Senior Democratic aides said that Hagel’s nomination does not have 60 votes at this time to overcome Republican objections before a key Friday procedural vote, leaving the nomination in limbo ahead of next week’s Senate recess. … “We do not have, at 12 o’clock today, a secretary of Defense,” Reid said. “It’s tragic they’ve [...]
Hagel ADVANCES, as Polling Shows Obama Trusted on Foreign Affairs and National Security *Update*
HAGEL NOMINATION ADVANCES Passed along party lines by 14-11 in committee Across nine issues, Americans give Obama his highest approval ratings for handling national defense (53%), followed by foreign affairs and immigration, each at 46%. [Gallup] SENATORS McCAIN, Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, James Inhofe and others have done their best to ruin the reputation of [...]
Top Story — Obama’s Inaugural Week, Reid and Schumer’s Weaknesses Follow
The joint budget resolution could also call for Medicare reforms and using the chained CPI formula to curb the cost of Social Security benefits. These entitlement reforms combined with tax reform would give Republicans political cover to accept tax increases — or at least more cover than if tax increases were merely packaged as an [...]
Harry Reid Defines Leadership Downward
“I’m not personally, at this stage, ready to get rid of the 60-vote threshold.” – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid THIS MAY not be the most pathetic statement on what the twisting of the meaning of filibuster has done to the meaning of “majority” in the Senate, but it comes close. Reid goes on to [...]
News Desk: Sens. Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell Butt Heads on Filibuster
CONSIDER THIS Senator Harry Reid being inspired by President Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address. “I hope that within the next 24 to 36 hours we can get something we agree on. If not, we’re going to move forward on what I think needs to be done,” Reid told reporters. “The caucus will support me on [...]
Fix the Senate – Fix the Filibuster
American People to U.S. Senate: Move Forward on Real Rules Reform The Communications Workers of America labor union, a lead group in the Fix the Senate Now coalition, is launching an advertising campaign aimed at shaping the final stages of the filibuster reform debate. [...] The Merkley-Udall plan still allows the filibuster of legislation, but [...]
McCain Reverses on Susan Rice: “She’s Not the Problem”
Watch the latest video at video.insider.foxnews.com AFTER SENATOR John McCain was slammed for scurrilously attacking Ambassador Rice, as well as being proved wrong for his assertions about her by the entire intelligence community, which signed off on what she said on the Sunday shows that caused a ruckus, McCain had no choice but to tuck [...]
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