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“I think it’s pretty clear that Harry Reid and the Democratic side … wants illegals counted in the Census, wants illegals in the reapportionment of the House,” Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said on a conservative talk radio show late yesterday, as reported by The Hill.
Vitter is co-sponsoring a bill with Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) that [...]

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) today blasted the Obama administration, as well as some of her colleagues in the House and Senate, for including a provision in the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill that would amend the Freedom of Information Act to exempt from disclosure photos depicting the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody.
After the jump, Slaughter’s [...]

The National Defense Authorization Act, passed yesterday by the House of Representatives, includes a largely overlooked provision that modifies the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which allows the government to try certain terror suspects — now called “unprivileged enemy belligerents” instead of the Bush-era term, “unlawful enemy combatants” — in military proceedings rather than Article [...]

By refusing to allow Guantanamo detainees to be transferred anywhere in the United States, including its supermax prisons, those representatives in Congress eagerly fighting to keep the prison in Cuba open may unintentionally be easing the lives of terror suspects.
Last Thursday, the House of Representatives voted 258-163 to refuse to allow detainees now held at [...]

The House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department is off to a good start, with Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) listing the questions he plans to put to the featured witness, Attorney General Eric Holder.
Conyers promised to question Holder about all the hot-button topics that have dominated the news and prompted questioning from Democrats [...]

Chicago Democrat Mike Quigley won an easy victory yesterday in the contest to replace now-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in the House of Representatives. The Cook County commissioner took nearly 70 percent of the vote with almost all districts reporting.
In the various reports floating around in the wake of the win, Quigley is [...]

Ahh, the wisdom of Congress controlling the federal purse strings …
The House today is poised to pass legislation creating a special 11-member commission to honor the 100-year anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, which occurred on Feb. 6, 1911.

It’s very hard to have a debate with someone when your underlying assumptions are radically different. Inevitably, things will get pretty heated.
That’s what happened at a House Energy and Environment Subcommittee hearing this morning on “The Role of Offsets in Climate Legislation.” Chairman Edward Markey (D-Mass.) attempted to engage six expert witnesses in a nuanced [...]

This was inevitable.
Despite unanimous opposition from House Republicans to the Democrats’ $787 billion economic stimulus plan, members of the GOP are now cheering certain elements of the bill that will benefit their districts, The New York Times reports today.

Congressional Democrats are learning the tough way that transparency in the legislative process has its pitfalls.
CQ is reporting today that 104 House members — nearly a quarter of the lower chamber — secured earmarks in a 2008 defense spending bill for clients of a single lobbying firm with strong ties to powerhouse appropriator Rep. John [...]