Friday, March 04, 2011

The Seventeenth Summary 03-04-2011 PM

How Do We Check Runaway National Power?
American Thinker
Some recommend a constitutional amendment to give states veto power over federal law. Others propose repealing the 17th Amendment, so state legislatures will once again elect US Senators. And most want a balanced budget amendment. What's going on here? ...

Geithner plays down oil supply risks
Reuters
In wide-ranging testimony before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Geithner again tweaked China for keeping its currency too low and assured lawmakers he was committed to expanding US overseas trade while playing down risks that oil prices ...

Comment: Remove the word “Geithner” and insert "Goldman-Sachs."

Rockefeller asks Obama to tap US petroleum reserve
Reuters
US oil prices slipped from near 2-1/2-year highs on Thursday to $101.91 a barrel, down 32 cents, as traders took profits. Fellow Democrat Jeff Bingaman, the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, called on the administration on ...

US Senate OKs amendment to add patent offices
Bizjournals.com
... to create three or more regional satellite patent offices across the country in the next three years under an amendment added Wednesday to the America Invents Act, a patent reform measure before the US Senate, the Denver Business Journal reports. ...

AFR, PIRG, Durbin Call for Senate to Protect Wall Street Reform ...
By EdMierzwinski
We joined U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the original sponsor of the legislation that then became the landmark Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in a news conference yesterday calling for the Senate to reject the House proposal to ...

DeMint shows new clout in threat to obstruct Senate business
MiamiHerald.com
 A bloc of Senate conservatives, led by South Carolina's Jim DeMint, flexed their muscles Thursday, pledging to block any bill they alone deem wasteful or unconstitutional. Seven other GOP senators joined DeMint's effort, ...

Senate Republicans Push To Oust Medicare Chief
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Unable to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, Republicans are trying to oust the official who is quarterbacking the overhaul of the nation's medical system. In a letter released Thursday, 42 Republican senators ...


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