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Saudi arms sale may spark Bush-Congress battle
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A plan to sell Saudi Arabia highly accurate Boeing Co bomb-guidance kits is roiling Israel's backers in the Congress, setting up a potential clash with President George W. Bush. The administration could formally notify lawmakers as soon as January 15...
Genetic Nondiscrimination Bill Stalled in Senate
How Gattaca is this?!"With several private companies launching businesses to provide customers with unprecedented access to their genomes' secrets, legislation protecting people from genetic discrimination is more... Democrats lose again
Another attempt by Democrats to micro manage the war has failed. The Democrats who have been claiming the war is lost and trying to legislate a withdraw from Iraq find themselves defeated by the Commander of... A VICTORY! US Senate Pulls Plug on Open Borders for Mexican Trucks!
Senate votes to kill Mexican truck demo
Bush 'Open Borders' agenda dealt serious bipartisan blow"September 11, 2007
The U.S. Senate has dealt a likely death blow to the Bush administration plans to give Mexican... A Fading Superpower?
"Like all empires before it, the U.S. will slip from the top of the heap. Let's start getting ready." says editorialist David Rieff writing for the LA Times in this calm, thought provoking analysis of what many...CIA Said Instability Seemed 'Irreversible' by Bob Woodward
"Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden conference table in the windowless Roosevelt Room of the White House. For more than an hour, they listened to President Bush give what one panel member called a...Make a pullout from Iraq part of U.S. strategic reset
"Make a pullout from Iraq part of U.S. strategic reset By Lawrence J. Korb and Brian Katulis Originally published July 11, 2007 As even strong Republican supporters of President Bush and the Iraqi invasion, such as Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana and Sen. Pete V. Domenici of...No illusions on Iran
"Four inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in the North Korean capital Pyongyang Thursday to begin dismantling the country's nuclear weapons program. If the IAEA mission succeeds, it will gradually bring the North Koreans out of their pariah state...The Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 (HR 2102) is scheduled for a House J...
"Currently, SPJ President Christine Tatum, Past President Irwin Gratz and Executive Director Terry Harper are visiting legislators on Capitol Hill to rally support for HR 2102. The Shield Law bill has bipartisan support in the House and Senate. Sponsors include Reps. Mike...Immigration -- Bush's domestic Iraq
"MAINSTREAM editorialists like to praise President Bush's immigration initiative as an expression of his pragmatic, bipartisan, "compassionate conservative" side, in presumed contrast to the inflexible, ideological approach that produced the invasion of Iraq. But far from...Senate coalition crosses borders
"In deeply divided Washington, the coalition behind the Senate immigration bill is unusual and — so far — unusually effective. The lawmakers, who span the political spectrum from deeply conservative to passionately liberal, spent hundreds of hours together in Senate...Congressional delegation meets with MB - again
"Congressional delegation meets with MB - again May 28th, 2007 at 12:08pm Issandr El Amrani Remember how a few weeks ago a Congressional delegation met — both in parliament and at an embassy function — MPs from the Muslim Brotherhood? That time around, the Egyptian...Funding Bush's War: This Is No Game
" President Bush forced Democrats to “fold,” the press reports. He vetoed the Iraq funding bill that set a deadline for getting U.S. troops out of the war. The Republican minority blocked any effort to overturn the veto. Now Congress is about to vote on a funding bill...Strife over immigration bill as debate begins in the Senate
"WASHINGTON — The Senate launched debate Monday on a sweeping bipartisan bill that could yield the most significant changes in the nation's immigration law in 20 years. But even before lawmakers voted 69 to 23 to begin the debate, the bill's opponents promised a bruising...Benchmarks and Bullsh*t - Beward bipartisan 'consensus' on Iraq
"What is needed is not just a revision of our Iraq policy, or our Iran policy, or even our Middle East policy. We need to reevaluate – and, yes, reverse – our entire foreign policy from top to bottom, starting with its central premise, which is that we must be the...
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