This Week Posts
Rep. Peter Roskam Says ‘House Won’t Be Rolled’ by Senate Immigration Bill
With the Senate poised to pass a comprehensive immigration package this week, Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam, R-Ill., said the upper chamber’s “Gang of Eight” bill is essentially dead on arrival in the House of Representatives. “The House has no capacity to move that bill,”… Read More »
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Obama Not ‘Scrambling Jets to Get a 29-Year-Old Hacker’ Named Snowden
DAKAR, Senegal – President Obama says the manhunt for NSA leaker Edward Snowden will someday make for a great TV movie, but he is not getting personally involved or doing any “wheeling and dealing and trading” to get him back. Obama said has called neither… Read More »
Nancy Pelosi Responds to GOP Frustration on DOMA: ‘Who Cares?’
ABC News’ Micki Fahner and John R. Parkinson report: Members of Congress favoring marriage equality for homosexuals exulted today over Supreme Court rulings that furthered that cause. “I feel jubilation. I feel fabulous. I feel every gay word I can think of,” said Rep. Mark… Read More »
President Obama Outlines Plan to Combat Climate Change, Says Keystone Pipeline Must Not Increase Greenhouse Gases
President Obama today outlined his plan to combat climate change, calling for new standards to reduce carbon pollution and saying he would not approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline if it produces more greenhouse gas emissions. “As a president, as a father and as an… Read More »
Harry Reid Calls House Republicans ‘Crazies’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a word for conservative House Republicans. “Crazies.” At his weekly press availability, Reid was asked how House Speaker John Boehner will handle immigration reform – specifically, what Senate Republican leaders voting against it will mean for future action in… Read More »
After Supreme Court Ruling, Senate to Hold Hearings on Voting Rights Act
Now that the Supreme Court has kicked the Voting Rights Act over to Congress, Congress will take it up. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings next month after the court on Tuesday invalidated the Voting Rights Act’s coverage formula, which determines which voting… Read More »
Obama vs. Obama on Coal Production
The president’s tough new actions today to fight coal-fired carbon emissions have won praise from environmentalists and sent coal company stocks tumbling on fears the new regulations will force older coal plants to shut down. But just last year, President Obama – eager to woo… Read More »
President Obama Highlights Immigrant Success Stories to Persuade Senate to Back Reforms
On the theory nothing succeeds like success, President Obama listened to the success stories of immigrants who came to the U.S. and founded major corporate enterprises, urging them to carry their support for immigration reform to the Senate as it completes work on landmark legislation…. Read More »
Hong Kong’s ‘Deliberate Choice’ to Release Snowden Damages US-China Relationship, White House Says
Hong Kong authorities made a “deliberate choice” to release fugitive NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and have damaged U.S.-Chinese relations as a result, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today. We are just not buying that this was a technical decision by a Hong Kong… Read More »
New Air Force Leader Becomes Highest-Ranking Openly-Gay Person in Defense Dept.
Undersecretary of the Air Force for just two months, Eric Fanning is now the acting civilian leader of the military branch after the retirement Friday of Air Force Secretary Michael Donley made him the highest-ranking openly-gay person at the Defense Department. Fanning, having started his career… Read More »
