Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Seventeenth Summary 12-14-2010 PM

Senator Proposes Cybersecurity Standards
InformationWeek
A US senator has introduced a bill that would require the government and the private sector to require minimum ...

OpenSecrets Blog PolitiQuizz: Which Senator Has Made the Most From ...
By Lauren Hepler
Which senator has received the most campaign contributions from the L-3 Communication PAC during the 2010 election cycle? The first person leave the correct answers in this blog post's comments section will win a free copy of The Blue...

Norm Coleman, RNC Chairman? Ex-Senator Could Enter Race
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Norm Coleman -- former U.S. senator from Minnesota, and now chairman of American Action Network and Forum, a key outside GOP group -- is likely to enter the race for Republican National Committee chairman now that Michael Steele is ...

A single shot at Senate reform
Washington Post (blog)
By Ezra Klein "Last week, the US Senate failed for the first time in 48 years to pass an annual bill authorizing money for national defense," reports Philip ...

Senate plans block on Guantanamo transfers
Wall Street Journal
The Senate is moving to block President Barack Obama from transferring Guantanamo Bay prisoners to the United States. ...

US Senate appropriators urged not to add ship funds
Reuters
Senator John McCain has urged Senate appropriators not to fund the Navy's plan to buy 10 warships each from Lockheed Martin ...

Senate ethanol amendment on US tax bill in limbo
Reuters Africa
US Senate leaders have not decided whether to allow a vote on an amendment to cut the US ethanol tax credit by 20 percent that ...

Bloomberg
There have been no decisions about whether the Senate will vote on amendments to the tax package. Republican Senator Robert Corker predicted none would make ...

Robert Creamer: Senate Rules Must Be Reformed in January
By Robert Creamer
Next year the Republicans will have ironclad control of the House. It would be outrageous if Democrats allowed a minority of Republican Senators to use the current rules to limit what the Democratic majority can do in the Senate.

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