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Senate Votes to Close Out Debate on US-Russia Nuclear Pact
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Senate has voted to close out debate on a new arms control treaty with Russia, setting the stage for ratification of the accord. The vote was 67-28 and was seen in part as a proxy vote for the final tally. President Barack Obama considers the treaty his top foreign policy priority in the postelection Congress. Almost a dozen Republicans joined all the Democrats in calling for an end to the debate. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton were at the Capitol lobbying lawmakers. Earlier in the day, Obama locked up the votes for ratification of ...
Message to GOP: Don't Kill START Just to Spite Obama
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News
(Nov. 17) -- The lame duck Congress faces two important decisions and should not let partisan politics get in the way of national interest. First, it needs to extend tax cuts for middle-class Americans. Second, it needs to ratify a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia. The first is a no-brainer at a time when nearly 10 percent of Americans are unemployed and the recovery from the worst recession in half a century is anemic at best. But the second is also a no-brainer. Especially for those who believe that Russia is still a threat to America two decades after the end of the ...
Fed Chief Bernanke Faces Political Pushback from Republicans
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe authority of the Federal Reserve, the nation's central bank, and its chairmen has depended much on the perception of their independence and being above the political fray. That's a line that the current Fed chief, Ben Bernanke, is finding very hard to walk, especially after the Fed's decision earlier this month to pump $600 billion into the economy in hopes of jump-starting what has been an anemic recovery. Bernanke is, by now, no stranger to this challenging exercise. He got a big taste of it when he, along with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, and the backing of then President ...
Dick Armey Talks Tea Parties, Government Shutdowns, and Lindsey Graham
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyDick Armey, the former House majority leader, has become a key leader within the conservative tea party movement through his FreedomWorks organization. Armey sat down with Politics Daily recently before a tea party rally in North Philadelphia to discuss the 2010 elections, the future of the tea party movement, the fate of moderate Republicans, and the new order in Washington if candidates he backs join Congress. Click play below to watch highlights from the interview, and click here to watch the full interview. -- On John Boehner: "I think he deserves his right to be tested on his own ...
The Reid-McConnell Senate: Is It Really Such a Mess?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe Senate is in one of those phases that make normal people wonder what on earth is going on in Washington, and possibly even what possessed the Founding Fathers who created the upper chamber. Writers are lamenting its decline, senators are laying plans for change, and some House members make no effort to hide their scorn. The leader of the abandon-hope forces is New Yorker writer George Packer. In a piece headlined "The Empty Chamber," he says the Senate has managed only two lasting achievements in 18 months and now is "slipping back into stagnant waters." Washington Post columnist David ...
Some in GOP Concerned About a New 'Nucleus' of Tea Party Senators
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySix states have Tea Party-backed Republican senate candidates who have either won or are favored in upcoming primaries, and some in GOP circles back in Washington are worried about what might happen if voters see Republicans as aligned with some of the positions espoused by the movement such as privatizing Social Security, the Washington Post reports. Kentucky's Rand Paul has already started talking about forming a Tea Party Caucus in the Senate if elected. "I think I will be part of a nucleus with Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn, who are unafraid to stand up," Paul told the National Review in an ...
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