Monday, November 22, 2010

The Seventeenth Summary 11-22-2010 PM

Counterpoint: Senate Bill 3804
New York Post
The Senate Judiciary committee (on which such Senate celebrities as Al Franken, Russ Feingold, Orrin Hatch, Diane Feinstein and Arlen Specter sit -19 ...

Obamacare Repeal's Real Aim Is Retiring Obama: Albert Hunt
Bloomberg
While Republicans have a big majority in the House, Democratic control of the Senate and the presidential veto power make repeal or major change impossible. ...

US Senate confirms Lew at OMB
Jerusalem Post
By JTA WASHINGTON – The US Senate has confirmed Jack Lew, an Orthodox Jew, to the cabinet level position of the director of the Office of Management and ...

GOP Senator Slams 'Unconstitutional' Health Care Policy He Once Supported
Capitol Hill Blue
By Huffington Post Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) asserted that a mandate requiring individuals to purchase health care insurance violates the US Constitution ...

Senator Rockefeller had nothing but praise for Pistole and the new screening procedures. Apparently Rockefeller thinks that TSA officials feeling up the genitals of U.S. air travelers with the fronts of their hands is a wonderful thing. ...

Alaska Senate Battle Continues as Joe Miller Gets Respite from Federal Judge
ABC News (blog)
The Sarah Palin-backed candidate has the support of Senate heavyweights like Jim DeMint, RS.C., who through the Senate Conservatives Fund, ...

Senate Approves Settlement For Black Farmers
WFAE.org
Late Friday afternoon, the US Senate approved funding to compensate tens of thousands of black farmers in the South who were discriminated against by the US ...

David Nolan, Libertarian candidate for US Senate, passes on at 66
Tucson Citizen
Now US Senate candidate David Nolan has passed on. Nolan was also the founder of the Libertarian party nationwide, and lived here in Tucson, where he also ...

Snowe, Collins back lawsuit challenging health-care law
Washington Post (blog)
The brief was initiated by US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and boasts the signatures of 30 Senate Republicans. ...

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