As of now, Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill has 93 confirmed votes on party lines. Just a few decisive senators remain. Yesterday, Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), a former no — meaning he voted against the Senate bill, before it was reconciled with the House version — said he More…
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who did not vote for the Senate version of financial regulatory reform, not believing the bill strong enough, has indicated that he will not vote for this version either. Here is the full text of his press release:
“As I have indicated for some time
Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) passed away earlier this morning. As Washington mourns his death, Democrats will also have some tough political calculations to make. Despite his complicated legacy, Byrd became a relatively solid Democratic vote in the past decade, and his absence steepens the climb for some key pieces More…
The Senate just agreed to end debate on the financial regulatory reform bill, 60 to 40. Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) joined the Democrats in voting for the measure; Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) chose to vote against the measure. (Sen. More…
During health care reform, senators strengthened and hammered out the bill in committee before it hit the floor. This go-around, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) decided to pass the bill through the Banking Committee on a party-line vote (the vote took all of 20 minutes) and to allow a substantive amendment More…
Democrats are passing around this article by election handicapper Stuart Rothenberg, which takes the hammer and tongs to Rasmussen Reports. Rothenberg focuses on a poll that finds Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) weak against a first-time candidate.
Dave Westlake probably is a nice guy, and I wish him well. But
In a move straight out of the Bush administration’s Office of Legal Counsel, a secret decision made by the Obama administration’s OLC provided retroactive legal justification for the FBI and telecommunications companies to improperly collect the phone records of American citizens. We would have no idea that the OLC issued More…
Here’s the statement just released by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), explaining why he intends to oppose Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s bid for a second term:
A chief responsibility of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve is to ensure a sound financial system. Under the watch of Ben
Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, may think the interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab went haywire when the would-be bomber was Mirandized instead of being subject to the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group. But FBI Director Robert Mueller had a different take about the value of intelligence collected within the More…
A group of powerful Senate Democrats is urging leadership today to repeal the federal anti-trust exemption that insurance companies have enjoyed for more than six decades. In a letter to President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the Democrats More…
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