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John Kerry Puts Off Key Vote on Arms Treaty; Hopes Dim for Quick Passage
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyHopes have dimmed for speedy ratification of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty as Sen. John Kerry has postponed a key Senate committee vote while scrambling to round up more Republican support. Only one Republican senator, Richard Lugar of Indiana, is regarded as a firm supporter of the deal with Russia, which cuts long-range nuclear weapons and extends a verification system permitting each side to inspect the other's weapons facilities. But Republicans on Chairman Kerry's Foreign Relations Committee first want assurances that the Obama administration is financially committed to ...
John Kerry Vows to Pay Mass. Tariffs on Yacht Berthed at Rhode Island Tax Haven
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySen. John Kerry's decision to dock his family's new $7 million yacht in tax-free Newport, R.I., instead of in Massachusetts, is getting the onetime presidential candidate some unwanted attention from the Boston media. Kerry clearly isn't enjoying the public relations debacle -- and it's not clear what port 76-foot sloop, the Isabel, will eventually call home. Kerry, you will recall, is the liberal Massachusetts Democrat who ran against George W. Bush for president in 2004. His yacht is berthed at the Newport Shipyard, but if it were docked in Boston Harbor or at his family's summer home on ...
Obama Oil Speech: No Cap-and-Trade Doesn't Mean He's Given Up
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyWe are not a nation willing to suspend cynicism or partisanship these days, except perhaps in the grip of a traumatic event like the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Since the initial shock of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, this tragedy has become more like an ongoing epidemic, in President Obama's analogy, and that makes it hard to mobilize the nation. Obama pulled out all the stops Tuesday night on stagecraft -- the rhetoric of war and battle, the painfully formal Oval Office setting, the crisp talking points and action verbs. He declared that he won't stand for congressional ...
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 ...
John Kerry: 'Election Fear Factor' Could Delay Energy Push to Next Year
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailySen. John Kerry, prime mover of a comprehensive energy bill aimed at reducing carbon emissions and moving the country away from oil dependence, said Democratic senators will meet after their Memorial Day recess to figure out whether it is possible to bring the bill to the Senate floor this year. If the "election fear factor" can't be overcome, he said, referring to the upcoming midterm elections, he will push for the bill again next year. At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Wednesday with reporters, Kerry said the American Power Act he introduced with independent Sen. Joe Lieberman is ...
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 ...
John Kerry Decries Return of 'Swiftboating' in Pennsylvania Senate Race
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAs the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania senate between Arlen Specter and challenger Joe Sestak has become preoccupied with Sestak's military record, Massachusetts senator John Kerry weighed in, saying he will not comment on the charges. The victim of an orchestrated assault on his military record during his 2004 presidential run against George W. Bush, Kerry said he refuses to participate in "swiftboating" another Democrat. "What troubled me most about the 2004 smears was that lies were permitted to pollute the public dialogue even after they were thoroughly and publicly disproven by the ...
Washington in 60 Seconds -- Al Sharpton Joining Immigration Fight
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGood morning, Capitolists! What would a Monday in Washington be without a cliffhanger vote on the schedule and a Wall Street titan on his way to the capital for a public shaming? It's all in a day's work in D.C. and read about it in the next 60 seconds. - Reid Going for Broke. Wall Street reform legislation is supposed to take some of the risk out of investing, but Democrats and Republicans will both be gambling with their fortunes today when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid schedules a vote to move forward on the bill to rein in the masters of the universe. The tricky part: Reid doesn't ...
Immigration Decision Endangers Climate Change Bill
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe decision by Arizona's Gov. Jan Brewer to sign a tough immigration bill for her state has endangered unrelated, but highly anticipated, climate change legislation, which has now been put on hold by its sponsors on Capitol Hill. Sen. Lindsey Graham, the lead Republican sponsor of the climate bill, sent a letter Saturday to supporters of the measure threatening to abandon the effort without assurances from President Obama that climate change, and not immigration reform, will be his highest legislative priority. Following Graham's announcement, the bill's Democratic sponsor, Sen. John ...
Cliffhanger: Will New Yorkers See the Oscars?
By Tamara Lytle - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 4) -- The prospect is worse than an ostrich-feather fashion faux pas: More than 3 million New York City-area Oscar fans sitting in front of a blank television screen Sunday night. The possible interruption of the Academy Awards -- and other ABC programming -- is thanks to a dispute between ABC parent Walt Disney Co. and Cablevision. Cable systems must renegotiate with broadcasters every three years over how much they pay to carry the broadcast programming, but the two sides haven't been able to agree. It's enough to spur Congress into action, or at least into writing ...
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