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By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyDemocratic senators sounded the alarm Wednesday on U.S. nuclear power plants, saying safety issues must be reviewed in light of the reactor disaster unfolding in Japan. "We've got an inferno in front of us and we have to make sure that we do whatever we can to stop it," Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) said during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing. Lautenberg's comment was directed at Gregory Jaczko, head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who told the panel that "we want to get good facts" regarding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which is threatened by ...
Senate Votes, 91-9, to Avoid Government Shutdown -- for Now
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWith a midnight deadline looming on Friday, the Senate voted, 91-9, to pass a stopgap funding measure Wednesday to keep the federal government operating through March 18. Because the House approved the same bill Tuesday, it immediately went to President Obama for his signature. The legislation, known as a continuing resolution (CR), will keep the lights on at federal agencies for the next two weeks while also retroactively cutting $4 billion from 2010 federal spending levels. The cuts had broad support because they took money from sources that Obama has already proposed to cut, such as ...
Senators Urge MLB to Ban Tobacco Use
By Jeff Fletcher - AOL NewsSenators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), right, and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) sent a letter to commissioner Bud Selig and MLB Players Union head Michael Weiner urging them to ban the use of smokeless tobacco in the upcoming collective bargaining agreement. MLB has come under growing scrutiny over the past year for allowing its players to use smokeless tobacco, which presents a health risk and also may encourage use among kids. "The use of smokeless tobacco by baseball players undermines the positive image of the sport and sends a dangerous message to young fans, who may be influenced by the players ...
The Giffords Shooting of Course Has Everyone Talking About Gun Control
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsAs the chaos surrounding U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' shooting begins to settle, the echo chamber is filling with talk of gun control. And one of the details from the massacre fueling the passionate debate is that suspected shooter Jared Loughner allegedly used a 33-round magazine during the rampage. The clip had been banned under the federal assault weapons ban when the law was in effect from 1994 to 2004, but Congress decided not to renew it when it expired in 2004. Now, some lawmakers are calling for new gun restrictions. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., ...
Lockerbie Bomber's Release Was Allowed on 'False Prognosis,' U.S. Senators Say
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySixteen months ago, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing, was given three months to live. The Scottish government, over U.S. protests, released him from prison on "compassionate grounds" because of his supposedly advanced prostate cancer and allowed him to return to Libya to die. He's still alive. In a scathing new report, four U.S. senators conclude al-Megrahi was let go as a result of a "flawed prognosis" that Scottish officials went along with at a time when the United Kingdom feared Libya would wage "commercial warfare" and thwart an ...
Reform of Toxic Chemicals Law Collapses as Industry Flexes Its Muscles
By Sheila Kaplan - Politics DailyThis article by investigative journalist Sheila Kaplan is the first in a series supported by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University's School of Communication. Politics Daily will publish the remaining installments in the weeks to come. Fire retardants in baby blankets, nano-particles in cosmetics, plastics in water bottles and anti-bacterial agents in soaps. Experts call these and other chemicals emerging contaminants -- compounds that were once thought to be safe, but which scientists now believe may pose a danger to human health. How those chemicals get into your ...
Lady Gaga Is Sen. Frank Lautenberg's Kind of Entertainer
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailySen. Frank Lautenberg may be 86, but he can still rock. The New Jersey Democrat, who isn't up for re-election this year, is holding a fundraiser in Washington on Sept. 7 that may leave some contributors (or more likely their kids) gaga. No, it's not the five-term lawmaker who's ginning up the excitement. That would be Lady Gaga, who brings her Monster Ball Tour to Verizon Center that night. For $2,500 a person for PACs and $2,400 for individuals, donors can join Lautenberg in a skybox at the event, according to The Washington Post. The glam-pop star (real name: Stefani Joanne Angelina ...
Reform Advocate Speaks Up Against 'Silent Filibuster'
By Byron Tau - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 28) -- Talk about life imitating art: If Sen. Frank Lautenberg has his way, the Senate will operate a little more like it does in the movies. Brandishing an iconic poster of Jimmy Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," the New Jersey Democrat spoke briefly before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee today to call for overhauling the filibuster -- the famed Senate delaying tactic that requires 60 votes to cut off debate and move any legislation to a vote. "Few realize that the movie version of the filibuster bears little resemblance to what's going on in the ...
BP-Lockerbie Connection Raises Tension Between U.S. and U.K.
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON --The 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 270 people (including 190 Americans) over Lockerbie, Scotland, continues to be an open wound for many in the United States. The case is now proving to be a diplomatic wound between the United States and the United Kingdom as well. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee planned to hold hearings Thursday on the circumstances surrounding the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted by the Scottish government in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison. But late Tuesday, the hearings were canceled when key Scottish and ...
Oil for Lockerbie Terrorist's Freedom? Senators Suspect BP 'Blood Money' Role
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyFour U.S. senators have called on oil giant BP to halt its plans to drill for oil off the coast of Libya until questions about possible terrorist connections behind the company's drilling contracts there have been resolved. "The more we learn about the [matter] in recent days, the more it makes the stomach turn," Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said at a Capitol Hill press conference Wednesday. BP confirmed Thursday that it lobbied the U.K. government to speed up the release of Libyan prisoners in order to finalize an drilling agreement with Libya, but denied that it tried to intervene in ...
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