Today, the Campaign for America’s Future is joining 100 other organizations in delivering a message to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell: Enough is enough. End the obstruction. Stop the constant abuse of the filibuster. The group Fix the Senate Now is collecting signatures on a petition that it plans [...]
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The New York Times got a key fact wrong today when it wrote that Mark Begich, the Democratic Senator from Alaska, “voted against a measure to expand background checks” for gun purchases. But we doubt that Begich will complain: The truth is much worse. Thanks to Begich and 45 other Senators, no vote ever took [...]
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For years now Senate Republicans have been filibustering … everything. At the end of last year there was an effort to convince Democrats in the Senate of the need to reform the filibuster so things We the People need to get done could get done. At the last minute, however, this effort was scuttled by [...]
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Republicans are always warning us of the scourge of federal power and glorifying the genius of the states – aka the laboratories of democracy. On clean energy standards, conservatives have been getting their way. While Republican obstructionism has prevented the federal government from setting clean energy standards, many states have decided to set their own. [...]
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Building on his media-star momentum coming out of last week's 13-hour drone-focused filibuster, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., delivered a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference that put on display the tensions currently plaguing the Republican Party, and made a play for the party's future base, which he called the Facebook generation.
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Yesterday we saw what a filibuster should be. Senator Rand Paul did it the right way by talking and talking, and he got his point across. Interestingly, what Senator Paul did is what the public thinks a filibuster already is. Except it isn’t. In recent years Senate Republicans used the filibuster to block over 380 [...]
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How come few if any of of the major-media articles reporting on Chinese hacking of computers in American businesses, news organizations and key infrastructure facilities mention that last year Senate Republicans filibustered a bill to do something about it? Here is a NY Times report on that filibuster: Cybersecurity Bill Is Blocked in Senate by [...]
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Dave Weigel has the definitive post today on the Hagel nomination cock-up. He points out that Hagel himself is the only real loser here: He botched up his confirmation hearing, giving Republicans all kinds of reasons to oppose him. (In his “no” statement, Sen. Mark Kirk, who was never undecided on Hagel, continues to pretend [...]
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Uh Oh, President Obama is being bipartisan again. You know what that means: Republican sabotage again enabled. This time he’s appointing a conservative operative to help “fix” voting problems. Will this just enable Republicans to sabotage the voting commission? The record of results from Obama’s bipartisan instinct is not good. In fact, the record is [...]
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ruled out Social Security cuts in any plan to replace the sequester. In the State of the Union address, President Obama can either stand with Harry Reid and Senate Democrats–or betray them.
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