More than a year ago, Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill..) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) asked the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate the conduct of lawyers at the Office of Legal Counsel, whose work provided legal justifications for waterboarding and other abusive interrogation tactics.
Since then, the two senators More…
Following a 45-minute meeting with Roland Burris, Senate Democratic leaders said Wednesday that several steps remain before they’ll decide whether to seat the former Illinois attorney general to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the upper chamber.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters in the Capitol that Senate rules More…
The office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is denying that Democrats have agreed to seat Roland Burris to replace Barack Obama in the Senate, as The Associated Press reported this morning.
“I do not know where that came from,” a Reid spokesperson wrote moments ago. More…
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