Posts Tagged ‘Senate’
Senate Democrat’s up for election in 2014 start asking for Obamacare delay
After trashing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for months, Senate Democrats who happen to be up for election in November 2014 are starting to openly call for an extension for open enrollment due to the Obamacare registration problems.
Read MoreMcConnell Debt Ceiling Payoff? $2 billion for Kentucky dam project
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was part of the leadership who brought today’s debt-ceiling legislation into play. The Republican certainly has been labeled a member of the RINO club in the past, but was he willing to fold in part for a $2 billion federal payoff?
Read MoreImmigration Bill & Obamacare – Incentive to hire immigrants instead of citizens
I’ll be the first one to tell you I have had little or no time to review the current immigration “fix” legislation, but this does not sound good at all. A week ago, journalists started looking into how the Obamacare rules would apply to new immigrants who will have become legalized. It seems employers would…
Read MoreSandy relief bill LOADED with spending unrelated to storm
Outrageous. If I was in Congress and was willing to provide federal financial aid for New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut, I’d outright demand not one dime be included in the bill that was not specific to storm relief. Of course, that won’t happen .. and the current bill provides $100 million for…
Read More25% of Social Security disability benefits may be paid out improperly
And the hits keep coming for the Obama administration! OK … it’s not just the Obama administration, it’s the culture of federal government dependency that has been growing for decades. A Senate panel reviewed 300 disability case files and found 25 percent “failed to properly address insufficient, contradictory, or incomplete evidence.”
Read MoreSenate votes to “rein in” EPA’s regulation of carbon emissions
The above headline is a bit misleading, but, so too, are 12 Democrat, and one Republican senators. Let me explain.
Read MoreWord has it Lieberman will not run for Senate in 2012
Kevin Rennie’s posted news this afternoon indicating Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will not run for re-election in 2012. Earlier today, Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz announced she would be running for the seat as a Democrat in 2012. Linda McMahon still may be in for the next round, and Peter Schiff is still interested. Still,…
Read MoreSTART passes. But are we really safer?
Not really. Reducing nukes I imagine makes a nation safer, if the two who sign on are the only countries with nukes. Inspections make sense, except the Russians have exceptions to some inspections, namely their ground launchers. Swell. But most of all, this is a bad treaty because the Russians believe we must stop development…
Read MoreShocking silence: A Republican won Obama’s Senate seat
I’ve been wondering why the media has not made a big deal about a Republican winning the Illinois Senate seat once held by The One. Sure, some might say the GOP and Tea Party screwed up an opportunity to snag Joe Biden’s Delaware seat, but come on … where’s the befuddlement?
Read MoreSocial Niceties
In the wake of Tuesday’s midterm results, there has been a great deal of talk about “cooperation” between the parties. Harry Reid himself making reference to his friendship with Mitch McConnell and how the two parties need to work together, especially now that Reid and the Democrats fortunes in the Senate are waning.
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