Tag Archive for 'republicans'

Drilling for More Oil Not Top Priority?

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse had this to say at the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, a bipartisan energy summit:
“WHITEHOUSE: Gentlemen, we’re in the middle of a near total mortgage system meltdown in this country. We have a health care system that burns 16 percent of our GDP, in which the Medicare liability alone […]

Republicans vote against Motherhood

Well, today is Mother’s Day. While some of us were preparing various and sundry expressions of gratitude to Mothers everywhere, Republicans had bigger fish to fry.
From Dana Milbanks at the Washington Post:
Republicans Vote Against Moms; No Word Yet on Puppies, KittensBy Dana Milbank
Friday, May 9, 2008; A03
It was already shaping up to be a difficult […]

Open Government Act receives “Secret Hold”

An unidentified Republican Senator placed a ’secret hold’ on the Open Government Act.
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
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