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Critics who claw at the president’s credibility should unclench their fists, for their analysis must recognize the inherited policies from the previous president’s final 100 days and the potential yield
But as more gays are fired, more immigrants are deported and the genocide in Darfur rolls on without strong intervention from Obama, the liberal discontent with the new president is starting to grow
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Tuesday that the Senate would not provide money to close the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility without a plan for its inmates, and that
But his initial point is the one that should be well-taken by Congress and should lead to another kind of response.
Obama has already taken a host of actions without explicit Congressional approval — from guaranteeing the warranties of struggling automakers to announcing his plans to close the Guantánamo Bay,
“But you should not bring a can to a field of the Division A game.— Even without many rules, some elements of the league fell into the only-in-Washington category.
Without that linkage and the attendant sense of urgency it creates, Republicans would feel much more comfortable taking a more protectionist, anti-comprehensive reform stance, the aide said, particularly
interrogation practices and how to transfer or prosecute detainees once the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, military prison is shuttered, to whether more photos of alleged detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq should
Even without the actions that the federal government has already taken to provide corporate bailouts, there is little likelihood that Washington, D.C., could or will allow a default in the municipal bond
[IMGCAP(1)]In 2007, Wamp and Jackson led the effort to change the name of the CVC’s Great Hall to Emancipation Hall, convincing fellow lawmakers that the new building should recognize the slave laborers
one Congressional source, the president himself — were in touch with lawmakers about putting together a task force of Members and possibly others who would informally compile recommendations about what should
Part of the pundits’ problem is that they continue to tout the same old conventional wisdom: that a “purple— state should be represented by a purple politician, that voters prefer moderates and political
Employers may not pay individual workers more than union rates without bargaining with the union.
This includes management rights, subcontracting, work rules and others that would be binding on the employer and union, without the possibility for appeal.
But the bill won’t deliver on this economic promise without a guarantee that the components and systems of the American clean energy sector are made by American workers.
“He should not have ever been able to get from the garage into the building without being challenged.
Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America’s Health Insurance Plans, agreed with Blue Dogs and other moderate Democrats that any eventual House bill should not be hatched behind closed doors.
Should the Supreme Court decide to take up the case, it would all but certainly have an impact on Speech or Debate protections and could affect future indictments against Members of Congress, or
At lunch one day, some of the players discussed what might happen should they need to forfeit a game, Shah recalled.
Without Obama boosting turnout among urban and Ohio State University voters, the former state Senator is confident he can win the seat if he decides to run.