When House Democratic leaders unveiled their $825 billion stimulus wish-list last week, it marked only the beginning of a much longer process to forge the proposal upon which many argue the economy depends.
Indeed, the House Appropriations Committee yesterday tweaked the bill a bit, adding amendments requiring that projects More…
Senate Democratic leaders have agreed to seat Roland Burris after a week-long battle to prevent him from replacing President-elect Barack Obama as the junior senator from Illinois.
Burris was appointed Dec. 30 by disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, less than a month after the governor was arrested for allegedly scheming More…
Well, that was the quick way to avoid charges of hypocrisy.
In the face of Republican opposition to the seating of Minnesota Democrat Al Franken, who was named the winner of his Senate contest yesterday, Senate Democrats have decided that Franken won’t be sworn in with the rest of More…
It wasn’t the way the Democrats wanted to ring in the 111th Congress, particularly following their sweeping election wins in November.
Yet it appears that Roland Burris, the former Illinois attorney general appointed by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) last month to fill Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat, has More…
There’s only one guy in the country who thinks that, in the wake of the Blagojevich scandal, it’s still business as usual in Springfield, Ill., and that’s Gov. Rod Blagojevich himself.
According to reports, the embattled governor, who was arrested earlier in the month for allegedly trying to sell the More…
In his first public statement on the corruption charges levied against him, Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) confidently and energetically denied that he had done anything wrong.
“I’m here to tell you right off the bat that I’m not guilty of any wrongdoing,” he opened. “I will fight, I will fight, More…
Here’s an important follow-up to the earlier post about claims that emissaries to Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) offered cash to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in return for a Senate seat: Investigators have no evidence, outside of Blagojevich’s words, that the episode occurred. From MSNBC:
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., a short-list candidate to fill the Illinois Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama, is “Senate Candidate No. 5″ in the complaint against Gov. Rod Blagojevich, ABC News is reporting, citing unnamed federal law enforcers. From ABC:
Just a quick observation on the Blagojevich arrest: Did anyone else find it ironic that this episode comes just three days after Democratic Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) lost his reelection bid?
You know Jefferson. He’s the guy discovered to have $90,000 in cash stored in his freezer — More…
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