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 More…
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 More…
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 More…
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 More…
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 More…
In a move that all but ensures the Senate passage of the $838 billion stimulus compromise, Senate lawmakers this evening voted to end a GOP filibuster of the upper chamber’s bill, pounded out by a group of moderates late last week.
The count was 61 to 36, with almost every More…
The final count was 260 to 166, with 10 Democrats voting in opposition and 18 Republicans voting in support.
Senate Democrats, of course, have shown little interest in considering the reform bill, which restricts the Treasury Department’s spending of the second half of the $700 billion Wall More…
Following his impeachment this morning, Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) gave a press conference that addressed everything under the sun — except the charges of corruption and abuse of power for which he was impeached. It was an utterly bizarre spectacle that left CNN’s Rick Sanchez asking, “What the hell was More…
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