Friday, March 18, 2011

The Seventeenth Summary 03-18-2011 AM

Illinois senator invites coach Mike Ditka to lunch
Victoria Advocate
 US Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois had a special guest for lunch in Washington. Kirk invited former Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka to join him at Thursday's weekly luncheon for Republican senators. Ditka is a legendary figure in Chicago ...

Comment: another consequence of the 17th Amendment, where US Senators now have to gain popular support through “American Idol like” appearances. Play your fiddle Senators as Rome burns…

NJ senator Lautenberg plans hearing on bus safety
Wall Street Journal
Citing a pair of recent, fatal bus crashes in New Jersey and New York, US Sen. Frank Lautenberg plans hearings on why changes in bus-safety rules proposed in 2009 have not come to fruition. Lautenberg, a Democrat who chairs a Senate ...

YouTube - Big God, Small Government - Senator DeMint (R-SC)
By TheYoungTurks
Cenk Uygur on tea party backed Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) making outrageous comments on how as people become more dependent on government they become less dep...

Senate panel to step up TARP oversight: chairman
Reuters
A Senate committee will step up oversight of the government's unpopular TARP bank bailout program now it is losing one of its watchdogs, a top senator said on Thursday. The Senate Banking Committee will ...

Senate Democrats Call For Investigation Of U.S. Nuclear Plants
ABC News (blog)
Two Senate Democrats called today for a sweeping review of safety vulnerabilities at US nuclear plants in light of the ongoing disaster in Japan. Senators Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Tom Carper, ...

Comment: You would think that after 9/11 and the billions Congress has blindly dumped into the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Energy for domestic infrastructure security all of this information would be readily available. Is anyone willing to bet our nuclear program is as jack-up as the Japanese?

Fox News (blog)
Bayh drew from his experience as a moderate Democrat in both the Senate and as Indiana's governor on FOX & Friends to explain President Obama's deal-making strategy on the federal budget. "Sometimes you have to wait for the legislative process to get ...

Border group leader monitored by hate watchdog group skips Arizona Senate ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Sylvia Allen had invited American Border Patrol Chairman Glenn Spencer to give a border assessment to the Senate's border security committee on Thursday. Allen chairs the committee. Spencer was still planning on giving the presentation early Wednesday ...

DOMA repeal bills introduced in House, Senate : Washington Blade ...
By Chris Johnson
House and Senate lawmakers on Wednesday pledged to lift the Defense of Marriage Act from the books upon the introduction of legislation that would repeal the anti-gay law that bars federal recognition of same-sex marriage. ...

Watch: House, Senate Dems Introduce Legislation to Repeal the ...
By Andy Towle
In the Senate, the DOMA repeal effort will be led by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt .), Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) (above) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). Some 20 other co-signers have signaled their support. ...

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