Leading up to the 2012 election, women are watching — more specifically, Planned Parenthood is watching.
There are only 17 women in the 100-member U.S. Senate, which is one of so many under-the-radar problems exacerbating gridlock in the dysfunctional chamber, the Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel reports. By comparison, 17 is the same number of women who presently sit in the 35-member Colorado senate. The upshot, according More…
U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) is the recipient of the second-largest amount of money from the defense industry during the 2011-2012 election cycle as he begins his campaign to replace a leading voice in the U.S. Senate opposed to defense contracting waste, fraud and abuse.
Yesterday’s vote among Senate Republicans to place a two-year moratorium on the practice of requesting earmarks looks like it’s shaping up to be the beginning, not the end, of a long debate about the issue. My article today describes the mixed feelings of many Republican senators signing onto the More…
It’s official: Senate Republicans voted this afternoon to pass a moratorium on earmark requests among their members for the next two years. In addition, Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) are making a bipartisan push for a floor vote tomorrow on statutory language that would apply to More…
With the pressure mounting before the vote on earmarks in tomorrow’s Republican Conference meeting, a growing number of senators are coming out with statements in favor of Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) proposed moratorium on the practice. The group Taxpayers Against Earmarks has launched a feature on its website devoted More…
When a comprehensive immigration reform bill failed in 2007, eight Democrats voted to kill it. The Hill reported today some of these senators may again help to block immigration reform legislation: Five of the Democrats who voted “no” in 2007 are unsure how they will vote on the More…
The $600 million border security funding bill passed by the Senate last week could hit a roadblock in the House, The New York Times reports. The bill, which was passed by the Senate Thursday before they left for recess, could be considered by the House this More…
The Senate passed a $600 million border security bill last night by voice vote, just before leaving for August recess. The bill, introduced Thursday afternoon by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), funds 1,500 new enforcement agents and additional unmanned drones along the border. More…
If passed, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Claire McCaskill’s (D-Mo.) $600 million, fully-paid-for border security bill would increase the number of unmanned drones patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border, Politico reported today.
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