The Seventeenth Summary 02-07-2011 PM

The Repeal Amendment OR Repeal The Amendment?
Creating a New State's Repeal Amendment. Repealing the 17th Amendment. ... or to repeal the 17th Amendment to restore State's relationship to their ...

Senate panel targets Dodd-Frank, housing and TARP
Reuters
Overseeing implementation of last year's Wall Street reform law will be the top priority of the US Senate... Banking Committee,

Conservative group welcomes Lugar challenger
CNN Political Ticker (blog)
"Hoosiers for Conservative Senate are pleased to learn that Senator Lugar will be challenged in the May 2012 primary," says Greg Fettig, ...

The Weekly Standard: Health Care's Days Are Few
NPR
by Fred Barnes

Though the Senate blocked the repeal of President Obama's health care reform last week, the GOP says it will keep pushing for repeal. ...

Republican Senators press Obama on Bush trade deals
Reuters
Top Senate Republicans on Monday urged President Barack Obama to push for approval of free trade deals with Colombia and Panama in ...

Senate report: Fort Hood shooter's radicalism ignored by superiors
Examiner.com
In the long-anticipated Senate report released on Thursday, Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and ranking GOP member Sen. ...

Senator Shelby talks security for lawmakers
WRBL
By Meredith Armstrong 

“We should not let people, you know, a gun man here or there, drive us into fear, you know and not do this,” Senator Richard Shelby ...