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By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyNew rankings of the Senate's most liberal members -- a list including Harry Reid and powerful committee chairmen Carl Levin and Patrick Leahy -- suggest moderates are fading from the scene on Capitol Hill. Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-Nev.), who was elected to a fifth term in November, has become more liberal in his voting record in the past three years, the National Journal said in its annual rankings. The magazine had the Senate leader as the 22nd most liberal lawmaker in 2009 and 25th on its list the year before that. Writer Ronald Brownstein said the vote ratings marked a peak in ...
Glenn Beck Blasts 99er Movement
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Aug. 19) -- Glenn Beck probably won't be joining a 99er protest anytime soon. On Monday, the Fox News television commentator lambasted the 99er movement -- composed of the 1.4 million long-term unemployed Americans who have exhausted the full 99 weeks of emergency federal unemployment aid -- for not seeking out work and being "socialist and anti-capitalist." After explaining the plight of the 99ers and showing footage of a recent 99er demonstration on Wall Street, Beck offered the unemployed workers his two cents. "Don't spend your remaining money on travel to get to a protest," he said. ...
Stabenow Introduces Legislation to Aid 99ers
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- Two weeks after Congress surmounted a 50-day Republican filibuster to pass an unemployment benefits extension, the cause of the 99ers -- a group of 1.4 million unemployed Americans that the legislation did not cover -- has been taken up on Capital Hill. On Wednesday evening, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., introduced the Americans Want to Work Act, a bill crafted to provide relief to the long-term unemployed and encourage businesses to rehire employees. "Across our state, more than 35,000 people who have lost their jobs have also exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits. ...
EMILY's List President: Our Stand on Abortion Rights Is Unwavering
By Stephanie Schriock - Politics DailyI enjoyed talking to Eleanor Clift last week about the future of EMILY's List -- not just electing more women, but growing our community of activists and supporters significantly -- doubling and doubling again, as I have pledged. I am confident that this growth will be fueled by our commitment to electing strongly pro-choice Democratic women. But I am deeply concerned that the article suggested a change in our assessment of what it means to be pro-choice. Twenty-five years ago, Ellen Malcolm's visionary leadership established our organization as unwavering in our commitment to abortion rights ...
Sen. Stabenow's Zinger on Health Care
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyA little advice to any insurance agents out there trying to lure Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.) away from the government-subsidized congressional health plan to a private plan: Don't pitch him anything that includes prenatal coverage -- Sen. Kyl won't be requiring it. As David Sessions wrote, in a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee Friday, Sen. Kyl criticized legislation that would bar insurance companies from excluding some benefits. After Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) complained that 60 percent of health insurance companies refuse to cover prenatal care, Sen. Kyl responded: "First of ...
Congress Weighs In On American Idol
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyWe've heard from Simon. We've heard from Paula. We've heard from Randy. We've even heard from that new chick they brought in to stave off falling ratings.But the next American Idol can't truly be decided until our nation's most important judge weighs in with her eminently unbiased opinion. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), we yield the floor...Rep. Gwen Moore is no Simon Cowell. Unlike the cranky judge on "American Idol," Moore had nothing but praise for one of the reality show's finalists.The Wisconsin Democrat took to the House floor on Thursday to praise Danny Gokey, the 29-year-old gospel crooner ...
Another Day, Another Hooker Scandal
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyThe news today is that Thomas Athans, the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., paid $150 to a prostitute for sex at a Troy, Mich., hotel in February. Athans, co-founder of liberal talk radio network, Democracy Radio, has been married to Stabenow since 2003.The Detroit Free Press obtained a copy of the police report under the Freedom of Information Act. It says Athans, 46, was not arrested or charged, but agreed to fully cooperate with police in their investigation into Internet-based prostitution at city hotels. The Free Press reports that Athans was pulled over by police on I-75 ...
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