On the Hill: Legislative Pileup Looms in the Senate

While Republicans dispute that they are pure obstructionists, there is evidence to suggest that they are using their procedural power to slow even legislation and nominations that they know they have no chance of blocking. And in some cases, many Republicans do not truly expect to prevail. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Nov 21, 2009 - 6:27 PM PST
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Nov 22, 2009 - 7:22 AM PST
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by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 26, 2009

There's good information here about all that's on the legislative agenda. It's also good that it's not a straight -- he said, she story, but includes some independent analysis.

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by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Nov. 21, 2009

No surprises but good to see it in print and many people need to be aware, if they aren't, on how bad it is.

Disgusting un-American - time for the White House and for sure the President to start getting mad and yell. There is going to be a crisis much bigger then it is right now.

“It has been a very difficult year on the Democratic side,” Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat, said Friday. “We have faced, again, this ... More »

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