Saturday, February 12, 2011

The Seventeenth Summary 02-12-2011 AM


Conservatives seek to amend U.S. Constitution through state action
Bellingham Herald
Biddulph and others point to the 17th amendment, which when enacted in 1913 took the power to elect US senators away from state legislatures and put it in ...

Warner hopes Kaine will run for Senate in 2012
Washington Post
Mark Warner to the list of Virginia Democrats hoping Tim Kaine will jump into the 2012 Senate race. In the 48 hours since Sen. James Webb (D) announced he ...

Spending Gap Widens Between GOP, Democrats
Wall Street Journal
Senate Democratic leaders again rejected calls by House Republicans to wield a "meat ax" in proposing cuts to the federal budget, ...

Giffords considered Senate bid before shooting
USA Today
Gabrielle Giffords had expressed an interest in running for the US Senate if Republican Jon Kyl were to retire, several news reports say. ...

Cornyn will run for Republican Senate whip – CNN Political Ticker ...
By gschwarzcnn
John Cornyn, who oversees the campaign efforts on behalf of Senate Republicans, will run for GOP whip in the next Congress, a Cornyn aide confirms to CNN. "Let there be no mistake, Sen. Cornyn is running for whip," a senior Cornyn aide ...

Arpaio Considering Senate Run - Hotline On Call
By Reid Wilson
A run for the Senate? C'mon Joe, we could use you in the White House! Our nation is full of traitors and cowards. We are being invaded and our nation is being destroyed. This is an act of war! Sheriff Arpaio is a national hero with guts ...

U.S. Senate: Fort Hood shooter's radicalism ignored by superiors
By Jim Kouri, CPP
The U.S. Army major who killed 13 people -- 12 soldiers, one civilian -- and wounded 32 others was known to be a radical Islamist by his superiors but no action against his display of radicalism was taken, according to a U.S. Senate ...

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