GOP Should Handle Filibusters the Old-Fashioned Way
[IMGCAP(1)] I didn’t want to address the issue again, but Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) made me do it.
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[IMGCAP(1)] I didn’t want to address the issue again, but Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) made me do it.
“In this country, the last time I checked, you are innocent until proven guilty,” said Bonilla, adding that his proposal would prevent any “crack pot” local prosecutor from interfering with Congressional
said in an interview last week.
“I don’t see any showstoppers. I think we can produce a product by late this week or early next week,” said Jon Scofield, spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee.
“I think more and more of these organizations will develop around specific races,” the source said.
“I think random checkpoints are always in order, as long as they are few in number and don’t give the impression that you’re in the battle zone,” Norton said.
“I think random checkpoints are always in order, as long as they are few in number and don’t give the impression that you’re in the battle zone,” Norton said.
borders to harbor terrorists,” the Nebraska Democrat said.
One very smart Jewish friend of mine, reflecting on President Bush’s open expression of religious faith, said, “I feel for the first time that I’m a stranger in my own country. I’m scared.”
If Rossi loses, “I would say [he is] by far the strongest statewide candidate the Republicans could field at this point” for the 2006 Senate race, said Jim Dornan, an inside-the-Beltway-based GOP
How can we expand and increase our base without offending those who have stuck it out with us loss after loss? We must reclaim the mantle of the party of mainstream values.
“I’m ready for that,” Pelosi said.
. … You can’t be spreading [nuclear energy technology] around without expecting people to turn it into bombs.”
. … Without the Electoral College we’re likely to have Floridas all over the place, where every vote counts everywhere.”
“The more I talked to people the more I realized that it could be addressed and should be addressed,” Price said in an interview.
If, as in 2000, the next president gets elected without winning the popular vote, there’ll be a renewed hue and cry to scrap the Electoral College.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) caucuses with Democrats. There are two vacancies — in Florida’s 14th and Nebraska’s 1st — both of which are likely to remain in GOP hands.
“I think the only way it could be justified — except for [grounds of] strict partisanship — is if there’s an emergency or crisis of some sort,” said Sean Rushton, a spokesman for the Committee for
The commercial’s narrator says that by ignoring current events, Bunning probably missed the 79,000 Kentucky kids without health care or the 49,000 jobs lost in the state.
“Even though the law is not a carbon copy of the state measures, I think it’s fair to say that the legislation owed a lot to the initiatives that preceded it,” Bowser said.