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Washington in 60 Seconds: Lisa Murkowski Makes Her Move
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGood morning, Capitolists! The House and Senate may be out of session, but there's more than enough going on today to keep any curious Capitolist entertained. In the next 60 seconds, read all about that and what's happening in Washington. - Murkowski Makes Her Move. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who lost her primary to Tea Party favorite Joe Miller, will announced today whether she's decided to run in the general election as a write-in candidate. The odds are stacked against anyone with a nine-letter last name succeeding as a write-in, but Murk is giving the idea a hard look, telling the ...
Washington in 60 Seconds -- So You Think You Can Govern?
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGood morning, Capitolists! As the president jets back from the Gulf Coast in time for his prime-time Oval Office speech about the BP oil spill, Congress will have its hands full with oil, wars and proposals that might bring an end to both. Here's what's happening in Washington today, in the next 60 seconds. - So You Think You Can Govern? President Obama bumps the network TV schedule tonight with his first-ever Oval Office address. The topic, of course, will be the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but the issue will be whether the administration's efforts to avoid the blame for the spill meant ...
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': Way May Be Clear for Repeal of Military Gay Ban
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyOffice of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag notified key members of Congress late Monday that the Obama administration will support a specific measure to repeal the Pentagon's longtime ban on gays serving openly in the military. The news, which one advocate called "a dramatic breakthrough," virtually assures the measure will pass Congress later this week. As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama vowed to end the military's policy within his first year in office, but progress of the repeal has been marked by fits and starts since his inauguration as he focused on the wars in Iraq ...
Richard Blumenthal, Vietnam and Linda McMahon: A Steel-Cage Race in Connecticut
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyBrandishing cliché-ridden (but poll-tested) language, virtually all candidates boast about their eagerness to "fight," their record as a "fighter" and their promise to keep "fighting." But rarely have these hackneyed variants of the Middle English word "fight" taken on such weird contours as here in Connecticut. The Senate race to succeed the reluctantly retiring Chris Dodd hurtles from the bygone battlefields of Vietnam (imagined and real) to the creatively choreographed struggles in the wrestling ring. Over the weekend, Connecticut Democrats embraced the embattled Richard Blumenthal, who ...
Kerry, Lieberman in New Push for Energy Bill
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn the last gasp for an energy bill, Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman offered a plan Wednesday that promotes clean energy and nuclear power, aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent over the next decade, and allows coastal states to veto federally leased drilling projects within 75 miles of their shores. Kerry said stakes for the bill are "sky high," the AP reported. It faces an uphill climb in gaining passage this year, with little or no GOP backing at this point. But the Massachusetts Democrat said he would press ahead and remains hopeful that Republican Lindsey Graham of ...
Lieberman and Scott Brown Move to Strip U.S. Citizenship For Terrorists
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIn the wake of the bombing attempt in New York City's Times Square, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Scott Brown (R-Mass.) introduced a bill in the Senate Thursday to revoke the U.S. citizenship of suspected terrorists if the State Department finds they are affiliated with a foreign terrorist organization. The lead suspect in the Times Square case, Faisal Shahzad, is a U.S. citizen. The State Department already has the authority to revoke citizenship of anyone who takes up arms against the United States as a part of a foreign army, but Lieberman said Thursday that terrorists are "stateless ...
Joe Lieberman to Host Fundraiser for Harry Reid
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will host a weekend fundraiser for Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who needs all the help he can get in the battle to hang on to his seat. The event will be Sunday at the Greenwich, Conn., home of venture capitalist Dan Ciporin and his wife, Jill, The Connecticut Post reported. The invitation suggests a minimum donation of $1,000 per person. The fact that Lieberman would help his former party is a surprise, because he and Reid have been occasionally at odds since the Connecticut senator bolted the Democratic Party in 2006. Earlier this year Reid accused ...
Pentagon Defies Congress on Fort Hood Probe
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 27) -- The Obama administration said today the Pentagon will not provide all the information requested by a congressional committee investigating November's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. The announcement comes after Sens. Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued subpoenas to require the Pentagon to share information on the shooting -- including documents and access to witnesses -- by April 26. Uniformed Services UHS / AP The Pentagon will not share information requested by a ...
Lieberman Forges Ahead on Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyTwo keys senators are moving forward on a bill throwing out the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bans gays from serving openly in the military, despite pleas from the Pentagon for more time study the impact on the Armed Forces. Pentagon spokesmen told reporters on Wednesday that the military needs to know more about the potential effect of lifting the prohibition so "that we could work with Congress to help inform the process that they undertake, if they undertake it," the Washington Post said. But Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is not waiting on the 10-month review ordered up by the ...
Joe Lieberman Takes Lead on Repealing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will introduce a bill next week to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prohibits gays from serving in the military. Lieberman told New York's Daily News he sees the legislation to repeal the 1993 law as "the next step of the civil rights movement." The former Democrat caucuses with his old party but has frustrated liberals with his support of the war in Iraq and his 2008 endorsement of Republican John McCain. His leadership on repealing DADT puts him firmly back in the camp with social progressives. "My own experience as a member of the Armed ...
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