Dec 30, 2010 – National security hawks lost a battle last week when 71 members of the Senate -- not all of them Democrats -- voted to ratify New … Jim DeMint (R-SC) offered an amendment to the resolution to ratify New START that would have committed the U.S. to exactly this goal … Do most Americans want to remain vulnerable to Russia and China as well as to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his ilk --…

Dec 30, 2010 – But Daniels has declined to back down, telling the Indianapolis Star the other day that such issues are secondary to the economy and … work hard to implement it. … (blacks voted 70 percent against it in California).…

Dec 28, 2010 – ' physical checkups, the Congress as a whole voted to delete that provision. … Republican Congressman John Boehner, soon to become Speaker of the House, objected to this provision in 2009, saying: "This provision … the need for "a living constitution by judicial interpretation," in order to "respond to the vital needs of present-day life."…

Dec 28, 2010 – But even many sympathetic to government-run health care knew something was wrong with the process used to advance the legislation. … from charging content providers to deliver their services. … The “net neutrality” concept has been voted down in Congress, and a federal court has already ruled the FCC lacks authority to regulate…

Dec 27, 2010 – And we must be willing to go to great lengths to oppose them. … He was apparently arguing for a new constitutional right to welfare. … They were, of course, too far to the right for him.…

Dec 27, 2010 – Hold on to your hat. … advantageous to the Kremlin. … A desire to obscure that reality doubtless contributed to the administration's refusal to share with the U.S.…

Aug 8, 2011 – morning, Congressman Allen West (R-FL) slammed Senator John Kerry for his egregious assertion that House Republicans were exclusively to … propose a budget in over 800 days – is unfounded and an obvious attempt to denigrate his political rivals. … As George Will pointed out today on ABC, 95 House Democrats voted against raising the debt ceiling compared to only 66 House Republicans…

Aug 8, 2011 – Ezell has named Ken Weathersby to fill the role. … "All of us need to be doing whatever it takes -- as our president, Kevin Ezell, says -- to reach all peoples," Weathersby said. … Kim said he was "very pleased" to hear of the creation of the new position and Weathersby's appointment to it.…

Aug 8, 2011 – They would not dare to submit this issue to New York voters. … Not one state in New England that has tried to force acceptance of same-sex relationships as marriages has allowed the people to vote … As the Ohio secretary of state at that time, I had to fend off attempts by liberals to throw the measure off the ballot.…

Aug 8, 2011 – We need to better educate the public on the long-term viability of these programs, if only to overcome the outright lies by demagogues … They need to make Democrats explain why they are against it, have it voted on in both chambers of Congress, and then take it to the … Our single most important objective for the next 15 months should be to replace this President – in order to save the Republic.…

Aug 8, 2011 – S&P's decision last Friday to downgrade the U.S.' … To cure its addiction to debts, the United States has to reestablish the common sense principle that one should live within its means … And one has to cringe that a communist country is in a position to lecture us on sound economic principles.In the days to come as the…

Aug 7, 2011 – to think differently. … to hypocrites. … If these...I’m trying to think of a polite way to say it...let’s just say blankety blanks who want to blank with your family’s blank…

Aug 7, 2011 – As a resident of Illinois, I'd never had any particular desire to fly from McCook, Neb, to Denver. … keep the Federal Aviation Administration operating.The House voted to trim $16 million from this $200 million program by eliminating … To save $200 million, which is hardly enough to notice in an age of trillion-dollar deficits.…

Aug 6, 2011 – Jason Chaffetz, a conservative congressman out of Utah who voted agains the debt ceiling deal, had this to say on Twitter: "By … Time to step down or be fired by the President." … He returns to the White House Sunday.…

Aug 5, 2011 – (BP)--John Revell, editor of SBC Life, is resigning to become pastor of a church in Connecticut. … Prior to his work at SBC Life, he pastored churches in Florida and New York. … Its members voted unanimously July 31 to call Revell as pastor.…

Aug 4, 2011 – He exhorted his colleagues to see reality, giving excellent reasons he voted against the Boehner/Obama bill: "The purported cuts, even … power to raise revenue." … Voters will take note that Republicans, when the chips were down, voted with Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner to keep the Washington merry-go-round…

Aug 4, 2011 – A decision to rescind endorsement of the drug would reignite the highly charged debate over US health care reform and how much the … It costs $8,000 (£5,000) a month and is given to about 17,500 women in the US a year. … The FDA advisory panel has now voted 12-1 to drop the endorsement for breast cancer treatment.…

Aug 4, 2011 – Tim Pawlenty has tried to frame himself as the alternative to Romney. … He's supposed to be the Republican who can win in November because he appeals to independent voters. … Bachmann voted for it but added an "asterisk" to her "yes" vote to protest the Medicare reform.…

Aug 4, 2011 – But it's also true that anyone who actually gets to be president will at some point be compelled to call for raising the debt ceiling … Strong peaceniks and strong tea partiers alike tend to be attracted to candidates who promise to do impossible things -- cut off funding … The exception -- Huntsman, former ambassador to Singapore and China -- tends to prove the rule.…

Aug 4, 2011 – In 2006, then-Senator Obama voted against the Bush administration's request to raise the debt ceiling -- when the national debt was … Indeed, he joined a filibuster to deny votes on the nominations of both Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court and John Bolton to the U.N … to arrest parents and children on their way to get ice cream.…

Aug 3, 2011 – So Congress voted, and Obama signed a deal, to raise the debt ceiling. And then this happened (from Yahoo! … News): US debt shot up $238 billion to reach 100 percent of gross domestic project after the government's debt ceiling was … signed into law an increase in the debt ceiling as the country's spending commitments reached a breaking point and it threatened to…

Aug 3, 2011 – The Journal write-up said Wu announced his intention to resign after the debt ceiling vote was cast. … Wu, of course, voted yes.  …

Aug 3, 2011 – He used her story to jam through a grandstandy "anti-rape" amendment to an appropriations bill prohibiting defense contractors from … Internet, on liberal talk radio and in mass phone calls to their offices. … Wouldn't it have occurred to them that she'd eventually get back to the U.S.?…

Aug 3, 2011 – The state Senate voted 29-19 on July 28 to override Democratic Gov. … Beverly Perdue's veto of the Women's Right to Know Act, barely gaining the three-fifths majority required. … The new law requires information be offered to the woman on the development of her unborn baby, as well as alternatives to and risks…

Aug 3, 2011 – even more, but all sides seemed to agree the new law is only a precursor to what will be required to resolve the country's economic … The president quickly informed Congress it was necessary to raise the limit to pay the government's bills. … "Clearly, everyone has reason to want to see it find the needed cuts that Congress can agree to.…