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Rep. McCollum is unphased by death threat over her NASCAR amendment
Seeking to stop the Pentagon from using taxpayer funds to sponsor NASCAR — and earning a death threat along the way — Rep. Betty McCollum sponsored an amendment to ban such funding. By a House vote of 148 to 281, that measure failed on Friday afternoon.
The St. Paul Democrat More…
New Mexico’s Sen. Bingaman will retire
The Washington Post reported that Sen. Jeff Bingaman will announce his retirement today. Earlier this month, Public Policy Polling found the New Mexico Democrat to be a “near lock” for re-election, with an approval rating of 56 percent.
The Post’s Chris Cillizza cites an unnamed “source More…
Text: The State of the Union 2011
Text of the State of the Union:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 25, 2011
Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery
State of the Union Address
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Washington, DC
As Prepared for Delivery—
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, distinguished
GOP.com Deletes 14th Amendment as an Accomplishment
I noted last week that the push by some Republicans — including, now, Gov. Tim Pawlenty — to review and possibly alter the 14th Amendment to the Constitution seemed in conflict with the GOP’s website, which listed that amendment, which in part grants citizenship rights to More…
GOP Lists 14th Amendment as an ‘Accomplishment’ on Website
Some Republicans, including Sens. Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, John McCain, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others, have been calling for hearings to discuss the possibility of altering the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — the one that grants citizenship to children born to More…
Coleman Skips Out On National RNC Meeting
Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, who’s reportedly been pondering a challenge to Michael Steele as chair of the Republican National Committee, has canceled plans to attend this week’s four-day RNC confab in Kansas City. Coleman was scheduled to be at the event, but changed plans without much explanation.
No Vote on Unemployment Extension Until After Senate Recess
This morning, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) raised the prospect that the Senate might hold another vote on extending federal unemployment insurance benefits before the July 4 holiday. “I hope we can pass it tonight before we go home for the 4th of July,” he told reporters on a conference More…
Michele Bachmann’s At It Again
A new transcript of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) April 9 interview on San Francisco AM station KSFO yields yet another error:
On the station’s morning show, she recounted the 2006 controversy of the so-called “flying imams,” six Muslim clerics who were removed from a US Airways flight after More…
Norm Coleman’s Donor Database Exposed; Campaign Claims Political Motives
In late January, accusations started flying that former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) campaign had concocted a story that its Website had crashed after a torrent of visitors flooded it seeking information on whether they were among voters whose votes weren’t counted in the still-undecided Senate race between Coleman More…
