Monday, November 29, 2010

The Seventeenth Summary 11-29-2010 AM


START puts Richard Lugar on the spot
Politico (blog)
AP Photo Close By ABBY PHILLIP & CAROL E. LEE | 11/27/10 7:01 AM EST One was the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; the other, …

US Senate Okays Taos Pueblo water right settlement
Taosnews.com
By JR Logan Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, also knows as the Abeyta Settlement, was included in legislation approved by the US Senate, ...

Unemployment Extension Being Pushed By Casey In Lame Duck Session
US Money Talk News
The letter will be presented to Senate leadership to urge them to reauthorize Unemployment benefits when they return from Thanksgiving break to continue ...

Senate bill S-510, Codex, and the choice between corporate food ...
By thebovine
Not one word was mentioned on the Senate floor, publicly, about Codex nutrition and chemicals, Monsanto, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), factory farms food and animal problems. Not one word about the USDA already seizing, ...

Militant Libertarian » Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Let States Opt ...
By Militant Libertarian
On the Senate floor, Brown said, “States shouldn't be forced by the federal government to adopt a one-size-fits all health care plan. Each state's health care needs are different,” he said. “Our bill provides flexibility, ...

Roots of the Usurpation-1913 « drkatesview
By drkate
The 17th Amendment has changed things enormously.” Scalia added, according to news accounts, “We changed that in a burst of progressivism in 1913, and you can trace the decline of so-called states' rights throughout the rest of the 20th ...

Senator Lugar Charts His Course Against the Winds
New York Times
Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana at his office on Capitol Hill last week. A Tea Party group says removing him is “a must. ...

Senator Earmark Points and Figures
By Jeff Carter
Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona was one of them. Last week he quietly tucked a $200 million dollar earmark in a piece of legislation during the lame duck session. His embrace of pork allowed two Democratic Senators to insert their ...

DN should rethink its 17th Amendment stance
Bowling Green Daily News
In light of how incredibly enormous our federal government has become since the 17th Amendment was adopted in 1913, maybe the Daily News should rethink its ...


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