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- Immigration Reform Effort Re-Emerges With New Senate Bill
Three years after efforts by Congress to reform the immigration system went down in flames, the issue is slowly re-emerging onto the national stage as two senators from the opposite sides of the political aisle work on crafting another bill.
- Ethics Panel Ends Massa Probe, House Leader Says
Speaking on an ABC News Web cast, Rep. Chris Van Hollen said that when former Rep. Eric Massa resigned his seat, "the complaints filed with the ethics committee went away."
- Senate Democrats Seek to Abolish Filibusters
Looking to challenge a time-honored privilege widely used by both parties when they are in the minority, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday vowed to remove the filibuster as a weapon to kill legislation by debating it to death.
- Hearing Delayed for Obama Judicial Nominee Who Supported Serial Killer
The Senate Judiciary Committee has postponed the hearing for a controversial Court of Appeals nominee after the panel received a letter from a home-state prosecutor blasting him as a judicial loose cannon and Republicans raised concerns about his alleged bias in favor of sex offenders.
- House Rejects Bid to End Afghan War
The House voted down a challenge to President Obama's conduct of the war in Afghanistan Wednesday, rejecting a measure that would have compelled U.S. armed forces to leave the country within 30 days.
- Parties Announce Top Targets in 2010 House Races
Two Democratic and Republican campaign groups released their lists Wednesday of the top House seats and incumbents targeted in the November midterm elections.
- Senate Health Care Bill Dead on Arrival, Pro-Life House Democrats Say
The health care reform bill passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve appears to be dead on arrival in the House, as seven anti-abortion Democrats intend to join the ranks of lawmakers who plan to vote against the legislation, Fox News has confirmed
- Kennedy Lashes Out on Afghan War, Media Coverage
Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who is not seeking a new term, decried the war in Afghanistan and the media coverage of the debate in a remarkable display of anger Wednesday on the House floor.
- Wife of U.S. Rep. Conyers Gets 3 Years for Bribes
A federal judge has denied ex-Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers' request to withdraw her guilty plea in a corruption case and sentenced her to three years and one month in prison.
- Senate Passes Bill to Send More Benefits to Recipients Jobless For More Than ...
Individuals out of work for more than six weeks could soon get additional government aid after the Senate passed legislation Wednesday.

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- CNN?s Crowley Suggests Democrats Debated Afghanistan Exit Strategy To ?Make T...
Today, the House of Representatives is debating H. Con Res. 248, a privileged resolution brought to the floor by Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Walter Jones (R-NC), and others that required Congress to debate whether or not to continue the war in Afghanistan.
During one point in the debate, Rep. ...
- Six Democrats Side With Banks, Ask For ?Alternative? To Landmark Student Lend...
One of the greatest hardships facing America’s college students is student debt; the average student in the class of 2008 graduated with $23,000 of debt, “a figure 25 percent higher than what their older brothers and sisters owed when they graduated from college in 2004.”
To tackle this student d...
- Ignoring His Own Votes, Bond Claims Reconciliation ?Cannot? Be Used For ?Majo...
Repeating conservative lies about reconciliation, Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell today that reconciliation for health care reform “procedurally cannot be done.” Claiming it was never used for major legislation without “overwhelming bipartisan support,” Bond predicted the Senate...
- Health Insurance Lobby Leaves The Door Open To Supporting A GOP Repeal Of Hea...
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the lobbying juggernaut for the health insurance industry, hosted its annual conference at the Ritz Carlton this week. As a vote on health legislation nears, the industry announced yesterday that it is funding a new round of national ads aimed at killing r...
- Even Though Bush Used False WMD Claims To Justify Iraq War, Rove Claims They ...
In his book that was released this week, former top Bush aide Karl Rove claimed that President Bush would not have authorized an invasion of Iraq in 2003 if he had known Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. ?Would the Iraq War have occurred without W.M.D.? I doubt it,? Rove wr...
- Limbaugh Now Says He Won?t Move To Costa Rica ? Will Just Go There To Use Its...
On Monday, hate radio host Rush Limbaugh pledged to leave the country and go to Costa Rica if Congress successfully passes and implements its health care legislation. Yesterday, Limbaugh claimed that he never said he’d leave the country. The host explained that what he meant was that he would go ...
- American Petroleum Institute Uses Stock Photos Of ?Americans? To Defend Oil S...
Big Oil is using fake “Americans” to defend billions in tax subsidies. The American Petroleum Institute is running full-page ads in Politico and Roll Call that attack Congress for “new energy taxes”:
Congress will likely consider new taxes on America’s oil and natural gas industry. These new ener...
- Archidioscese responds to controversy over its decision to kick children with...
Last week, officials “at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School, acting at the direction of the Archdiocese of Denver,” decided to not re-enroll two unnamed children because their parents were lesbians. Following fierce protests of the decision, the Archbishop of Denver has written an op-ed where ...
- ?Jihad Jane? Undermines Right-Wing Calls For Profiling Based On The Myth That...
Since the Ft. Hood shooting and the failed Christmas Day terror attack, some on the right have stepped up their calls for ethnic ?profiling? and ?discrimination,” with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich saying the Obama administration is more interested in ?protecting the rights of terrorists? th...
- Netanyahu Apologizes For Settlements News, Despite Recently Appearing With Pr...
On Monday, the day Vice-President Joe Biden was to arrive in Israel, the Israeli government announced approval for 112 new homes in Beitar Illit, an ultra-Orthodox settlement near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, despite having agreed in November to curb settlement growth in partial fulfillme...
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State of the Nation
- No Curbs for 'Radical Experiment'?
Shielding Americans from banksters and likeminded rip-off artists is only one small piece of needed financial reform. Out-of-control executive compensation, overly large financial institutions, insane derivatives trading, a Federal Reserve System apparently incapable of basic regulatory enforceme...
- Beck on his narrative malfunction: It's all Massa's fault
So Glenn Beck is trying to paper over his dimwitted, overly-credulous embrace of Eric Massa's conspiracy claims by...blaming Massa. On his radio show today, Glenn Beck lit into former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) for his disastrous, rambling appearance on the Tuesday episode of Beck’s Fox News Show...
- House Republicans Repudiate Michael Steele
The Party of No finally found something to say yes to: The House passed legislation Wednesday that would ban misleading mailings designed to appear they're from the Census Bureau, following criticism that Republican groups were sending fundraising letters using the census name. [...] The legi...
- Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread
Gaywatch, Virginia edition:
- Forty-One Pro-Choice Republican Senators
Boy, Republicans will go to any length to maintain their status as the Party of No: All 41 Republican Senators vowed in a letter today to do everything in their power to kill Democrats' health care legislation and vote en bloc against procedural motions Democrats want to use to fix the health r...
- AR-01: Huge GOP recruitment fail
Whoa: Arkansas' filing deadline passed Monday afternoon and while Republicans made a lot of noise about their chances in the 1st district in the days after Rep. Marion Berry (D) announced his retirement, all the sound and fury may have actually signified nothing.... In the end, the only Republi...
- Reid Says Filibuster Reform Will Happen
Speaking at a Progressive Media Summit held by the Senate Democratic caucus today, Harry Reid said that the Senate is "likely going to have to make changes to the filibuster" in the next Congress. Analogizing the filibuster to the spit ball and the four-corner offense in basketball--which were bo...
- CA-Gov: Meg Whitman's Press Strategy for 2010
During the Winter Olympiad out here in California, it became obvious that a big part of Meg Whitman's strategy for getting elected Governor of California was going to be flooding the zone with ads, drowning out her opponents with her burgeoning bankbook. Yesterday, Californians got another insig...
- Midday open thread
Progressive groups and labor gear up for last pro-health care reform ad blitz, to counter corporate opponents. Details are still being worked out, and it’s always possible that plans could change. But officials involved in the discussions expect to match or come close to matching the push coming...
- Rasmussen flooding the zone
Look at these governor numbers: COLORADO: Hickenlooper (D) McInnis (R) Rasmussen: 42 48 PPP: 50 39 OHIO: Strickland (D) Kasich (R) Rasmussen: 38 49 Quinnipiac: 44 39 ILLINOIS: Quinn (D) ...

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