Republicans Rebuke Obama for Gitmo Closure Plan
But without specific details that he says the president once promised him, McCain has said he won’t be able to sway his colleagues to support closure.
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But without specific details that he says the president once promised him, McCain has said he won’t be able to sway his colleagues to support closure.
“I have an election to win myself.
“President Obama said that Justice Scalia will be ‘remembered as one of the most consequential judges and thinkers to serve on the Supreme Court,” McConnell said. “I certainly agree.”
That said, I would really like to see how she does in industrial states such as Michigan ( March 8 ) and Ohio ( March 15 ).
“I think that’s part of the challenge, that the president can identify, but members of Congress can’t,” said House Appropriations Committee ranking member Nita M. Lowey , D-N.Y.
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) “I said, ‘I hope you lead with that the next time you speak about Xavier,’” Raslowsky said. “I got a Scalia smile back.”
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) “I said, ‘I hope you lead with that the next time you speak about Xavier,’” Raslowsky said. “I got a Scalia smile back.”
Wallace’s daughter, Peggy Wallace Kennedy, said her family has lived in the shadow of the schoolhouse door ever since.
Lurleen Wallace, the fill-in governor of Alabama who died of cancer in 1968, said of her husband, “He speaks out for the people. He says what they think.
“I can’t be a consensus builder, because I can’t trade,” Scalia said.
In every presidential election I can remember, both major parties have issued two warnings: This is the most important election of our lifetime.
In every presidential election I can remember, both major parties have issued two warnings: This is the most important election of our lifetime.
“It is hard to imagine the Court without my friend,” Justice Clarence Thomas said in a statement. “I will miss him beyond all measure.”
“These are responsibilities that I take seriously, as should everyone. They’re bigger than any one party. They are about our democracy.”
“These are responsibilities that I take seriously, as should everyone. They’re bigger than any one party. They are about our democracy.”
“One of those five votes is gone now,” said appellate lawyer John Elwood, a partner at Vinson & Elkins in Washington.
“I very much hope that President Obama will bring forth a strong nominee” whom the Senate will confirm.
“These are responsibilities that I take seriously, and so should everyone,” Obama said in a statement from California. “They’re bigger than one party. They are about our democracy.
“Thank goodness that he will be gone from Washington, D.C., when I am sworn into the Senate,” Grayson said of Minority Leader Harry Reid, who he accused in a statement of using a “false and misleading
“This was a bill that came through Judiciary without a single voice of dissent,” Whitehouse began.