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START: Passage Virtually Assured as 11 Republicans Split Ranks
By Patricia Murphy
Republicans in the Senate broke away from their party's leadership Wednesday to help Democrats advance the Strategic Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty (START). Eleven Republicans joined 56 Democrats to end debate on the bill and move it toward a final vote on ratification, likely on Wednesday. The ...
START Treaty: More Republicans Coming on Board for Arms Pact
By Tom DiemerTwo Tennessee Republicans came on board for ratification of the U.S.-Russia nuclear arms deal on Tuesday as momentum grew in the Senate for the START treaty, the top foreign policy objective of President Obama in the lame-duck session. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said he was convinced that "signing ...
John McCain & Lindsey Graham: The Mean Girls of the U.S. Senate
By David CornI have a theory about human social evolution: life doesn't progress much after high school. This week, I can thank John McCain and Lindsey Graham for providing empirical data that supports this hypothesis. Here's how government should work: lawmakers ponder the great issues of the day in serious ...
START Treaty Up for Cliffhanger Vote in Senate
By Patricia Murphy
With the clock running out on the lame-duck session of Congress, the Senate expects to begin voting Tuesday on ratification of the Strategic Arms Nuclear Reduction Treaty, the arms-reduction pact signed in Prague by President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April. Proponents of the ...
McConnell Will Oppose START Treaty; Reid Sets Vote to End Debate
By Bruce Drake
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that he would not support the new START nuclear arms control treaty with Russia if it comes to a vote in the lame duck session, but the two top members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee – Democrat John Kerry and Republican Richard ...
Biden to GOP: 'Don't Tell Me About Christmas'
By Tom DiemerIt wasn't exactly a Scrooge moment, but Vice President Joe Biden has little patience with Senate Republicans who cite the holidays as a reason to put off finishing work on such matters as the START treaty, a huge priority for the Obama administration. "Don't tell me about Christmas," an irritated ...
White House Furious With DeMint's Threat to Read START Text on Senate Floor
By Tom Diemer
The Senate decided Wednesday to move ahead with debate on the START treaty, but only after Sen. Jim DeMint infuriated the Obama administration with a threat to force the reading of the entire arms pact out loud on the Senate floor. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called DeMint's demand a ...
START Treaty Wins Backing of GOP Senators Snowe, Collins
By Lynn Sweet
The Obama White House, eager for the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia before Christmas, won the support Friday of two key senators, Maine Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, with just a few procedural strings attached. White House press secretary ...
START Treaty Backed by George H.W. Bush; Obama Predicts Passage
By Lynn Sweet
Former President George H.W. Bush came out Wednesday in support of the arms-control treaty with Russia known as New START, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who served under former President George W. Bush, backed the pact on Tuesday. Whether the endorsements can budge skeptical ...
WikiLeaks Case: Lawbreakers 'Will Be Held Accountable,' Eric Holder Vows
By Politics Daily Staff
Sunday's release of thousands of classified U.S. State Department cables by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks was condemned by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday, with Holder promising to prosecute any individual who broke the law. "To the ...
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