Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The Seventeenth Summary 01-26-2011 AM

Senate Dem presses Obama to boost Afghan security
The Associated Press
The Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee says he urged President Barack Obama to approve a plan to boost the size ...

McConnell: 'Virtually All' Senate Republicans Stand Behind Obama On Afghanistan
Huffington Post
Senate Republicans stand behind President Barack Obama's strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch ...

Internet 'Kill Switch' Act Back On Senate's Agenda
TMCnet
The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, also known as S. 3480, was a bill introduced in the Senate by Senators Joe Lieberman (Independent ...

Senators look to extend bipartisanship beyond State of the Union
The Hill
“I know there are many of us who would like to find a way for perhaps the entire Senate to lunch together once a month, discuss policy, have a chance to rub ...

Rubio: Why do we need a Senate Tea Party Caucus? « Hot Air
By Allahpundit
Jim DeMint, who backed Rubio's fledgling Senate campaign even as the Republican party backed former Gov. Charlie Crist. They will meet in a Senate office building with leading tea party activists including Campaign for Liberty president ...

Moonbattery: Keith Olbermann for Senate
By Van Helsing
Nothing is too preposterous to be possible, in a country where obnoxious ultra- left comedian Al Franken is already in the Senate (with help from ACORN) and an unqualified adolescent Marxist with enough radical associations to be on an ...

NRA Lobbyist Slams Gun Control, Calls Senate GOP 'Firewall For ...
By Liz Benjamin
Cunnginham called the Senate GOP a “firewall for freedom” that has prevented gun control bills (like, say, the microstamping measure championed by Bloomberg) from becoming law in New York. ...

Repeal the 17th amendment – Senator Zell Miller (2004)
By WizarDave
The 17th amendment was the death of the careful balance between State and Federal Government. As designed by that brilliant and very practical group of Founding Fathers, the two governments would be in competition with each other and ...

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