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Stabenow on Unemployment Insurance: ‘We Could Have Done This Three Weeks Ago’

By | 10.26.09 | 5:23 pm

With 7,000 Americans exhausting their unemployment insurance (UI) each day, Senate Democrats are hoping this week to pass legislation extending those benefits nationwide — a bill that’s been held up for weeks while upper-chamber leaders haggle over a series of controversial Republican amendments. First, More…

F-22: Stand Up and Be Counted

By | 07.22.09 | 9:29 am

People have been tweeting at me to provide a roll call for yesterday’s OMG-worth vote to kill the F-22, so here’s one. As it appeared yesterday, the vote was relatively nonpartisan: while the 58-40 tally to end funding for the fighter jet was carried by the Democrats, 15 Republicans More…