From NY Times’s Senate to Vote Today on the Bailout Plan: “Senate leaders scheduled a Wednesday vote on a $700 billion financial bailout package after accepting tax breaks and a higher limit for insured bank deposits in a bid to win House approval and send legislation to President Bush by the end of the week.” [...]
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The Senate caves
February 15, 2008 – 01:09 pm
From the Rutland Herald’s The Senate caves: “Democrats in the Senate caved on Tuesday for fear that they might be designated soft on terrorism, approving a bill that gives the federal government broad powers to spy on Americans with little judicial oversight. It was a defeat for Sen. Patrick Leahy, who has sought to hold [...]
Senate panel cuts off funds for Cheney’s office.
July 11, 2007 – 10:07 am
From Think Progress » Senate panel cuts off funds for Cheney’s office: “A Senate appropriations panel chaired by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president’s budget until Cheney’s office complies with parts of an executive order governing its handling of classified information.”
Senate Can’t Decide on Language about Language
May 19, 2006 – 08:09 pm
Now this pisses me off: “The Senate yesterday voted to make English the “national language” of the United States, declaring that no one has a right to federal communications or services in a language other than English except for those already guaranteed by law.” Though, after they did that, the Senate then voted to call [...]
Paying for Volunteers
April 17, 2006 – 11:56 am
An editorial in the Brattleboro Reformer says that, while it is rare in Vermont politics for any candidate for statewide office to have to buy their volunteers, that hasn’t stopped the Senate candidate for the Republican party from offering $3,000 and a laptop computer to students who “volunteer” for his campaign this summer. If he [...]
TIME.com: America’s 10 Best Senators
April 17, 2006 – 11:39 am
TIME Magazine has named what they think are America’s 10 Best Senators. Here’s hoping Bernie is on the list next year.
Democrats: SÃ se puede
April 11, 2006 – 12:16 pm
Senator Ted Kennedy: “It is time for Americans to lift their voices now, in pride for our immigrant past and in pride for our immigrant future.”
Truthdig interviews Bernie Sanders
March 23, 2006 – 07:01 pm
You know how everyone loves Barney Frank? Well, Bernie Sanders is like the Barney Frank of Vermont. And Truthdig has an interview with the independent Congressman, who is running for Senate this year against a GOP candidate who also happens to be the wealthiest individual in the state of Vermont and who will spend five [...]
Byrd’s speech
December 21, 2005 – 01:22 pm
The cool thing about being in Boston is that I can watch T.V. again. Two days ago, I sat around and watched the Senate on CSpan. One thing I got to see was a passionate speech by Senator Byrd, who is like 85 years old. He basically bitchslapped the President for the whole “spying on [...]
