Congress
According to Pelosi, Impeachment Proceedings Are “Off the Table”
When California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi became House Speaker with the election of a Democratic majority in 2006, hopes ran high in some quarters...
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A Housing Bill of Horrors
In response to the housing crisis, the American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 (H.R. 3221) passed in the House (272-152)...
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Former Senator Jesse Helms Passes Away on July 4
On July 4 of this year, an old patriot passed away. Former five-term North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, retired since 2002, finally succumbed...
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Warrantless-search Legislation Moves Forward
The bill amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would allow the government to engage in massive collection of American citizens’ communications without...
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Senate Climate Change Bill Crashes
On Monday, June 2, the U.S. Senate began deliberating on the Climate Security Act (S. 3036), in what many hoped would mark the...
Read moreOops! California Democrat Leaks Desire to Nationalize Oil
During a recent hearing of the House Judiciary Committee dealing with rising oil prices, John Hofmeister, the president of Shell Oil, testified: “I...
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Is Former Speaker Hastert’s New Lobbyist Job a Turkish Payoff?
The Washington, D.C., lobbying law firm Dickstein Shapiro announced on May 31 that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) is joining the firm...
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Minnesota and Alaska Legislatures Reject Real ID
In May Minnesota and Alaska became the eighth and ninth states whose legislatures have rejected Real ID, joining Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma,...
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Climate-change Bill Would Devastate Families and Industries
Undeterred by record cold temperatures worldwide for the winter of 2007-2008 and recent admissions by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization that global temperatures...
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The DNA Train Has Left the Station
The passage of two recent bills — by both the Senate and the House, and the signing of those bills into law by...
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Congress Reverses Posse Comitatus Act Changes
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (H.R. 4986), which Congress passed on January 22 and President Bush signed into law...
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Volcker’s UN Whitewash
“The first and most important point to make about the preliminary report on corruption in the United Nations’ oil-for-food program is that it...
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Newt Gingrich: Speaking for Whom?
Can a New Age, CFR functionary lead the Conservative Advance? ...
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