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Past House GOP Tactic Proves Useless to Democrats
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A year ago, when Republicans were in the minority on Capitol Hill, they drove Democrats crazy by using an obscure parliamentary maneuver to change, delay and even kill Democratic priorities. Now that Republicans are running the House, Democrats have tried to stymie the GOP agenda by relying on the tactic, known as the motion to recommit. But they've failed on every one of their 23 attempts this year. That motion is almost always the last step just before the final vote on a bill. It gives the minority party, which has little voice and few rights in the House, a last chance to ...
The Obama-Christie Contrast: Doing 'Big Things' Their Own Way
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyBack-to-back appearances this week by President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put a fascinating spotlight on two opposite styles of leadership. Christie is the self-styled bull crashing through the china shop. Obama is the deliberative shopper who threads his way through the narrow aisles and tries to keep breakage to a minimum. In their manner and appearance, the pair could not be more of a contrast. Christie, a former prosecutor, is large and blunt, with "a little Jersey attitude," as Henry Olsen, vice president of the American Enterprise Institute, put it Wednesday. ...
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to Both Parties: Stop Playing Games on Spending
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie doesn't think much of Washington's approach to the country's debt and deficit crises. He advised national leaders to take a lesson from his moves to cut spending, pensions and benefits to close an $11 billion budget shortfall in his state's $29 billion budget. In a high-profile speech Wednesday at the American Enterprise Institute, Christie recalled being "booed lustily" by 7,500 firefighters when he told them he was cutting their pensions. "I said, 'Come on, you can do better than that,' and they did!" Christie told an amused audience of ...
Opinion: Egypt's Challenge to Iran
By not in system - AOL NewsAlmost as soon as protests in Egypt erupted, Iran tried to use the unrest to step up anti-American propaganda and project power in the region. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said Friday that the popular uprisings against Western-backed regimes in the Middle East signified an "Islamic awakening" that will lead to an "irreversible defeat" of the United States. Khamenei also addressed the Egyptian people in Arabic to voice solidarity with them. Iranian leaders portray the protests as a natural extension of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. "After the victory of the Iranian ...
Opinion: College Graduation Rates -- What You Don't Know Can Hurt
By not in system - AOL NewsThe college admissions season is in full swing, and around the country high school seniors and their parents are actively discussing their college options for next year, filling out financial aid paperwork, and editing and re-editing college essays. For these students and their families, the end goal is a college degree, which they know is a key to economic success. Unfortunately, not all colleges are created equal when it comes to getting their students over the finish line. Institutions that admit similar students often have widely different graduation rates, and far too many colleges fail ...
Social Security Turns 75: How Healthy Is It?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 12) -- Is Social Security showing its age? When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed "old-age" benefits into law on Aug. 14, 1935, nearly half of men and almost 40 percent of women died before they were old enough to cash in. The program later grew to include disability benefits and Medicare, which provides health care to the elderly. Today, with people living longer and baby boomers starting to collect their checks, many wonder if the Depression-era program is finally over the hill. "Social Security at 75 is fairly arthritic," said Stuart Butler, head of domestic and ...
How to Make Women's Rights THE Issue of the 21st Century
By Christine Wicker - Politics Daily"The big problem is [how] to define the protection of women's rights as the problem of the 21st century. If the world does that, [women's inequality] will become like the eradication of apartheid -- people will insist that it's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong, and that's when change happens."Those words come from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali victim of genital mutilation who wrote a screenplay about the mistreatment of Islamic women. Theo van Gogh turned the screenplay into the film "Submission." Two months later he was assassinated. Ali, whose life was threatened, has lived under guard for the past ...
Al Franken Is A Bipartisan Couch-Surfer
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyWell technically it would be a "guest bedroom surfer" now that Franken and his buddies are old and rich.In Washington for a two-day crash course on Senate procedures, the would-be lawmaker found himself without a place to stay. Although his good friend Eliot Spitzer suggested the Mayflower Hotel, Franken instead opted to crash with a friend...One who just so happens to be a big shot with the right-wing American Enterprise Institute...Senate candidate Al Franken (D-Minn.) stayed with American Enterprise Institute's resident scholar Norm Ornstein last week for two nights as "Franken immersed ...
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