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Could Gabrielle Giffords Run for Jon Kyl's Senate Seat?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsThe Democratic nomination to replace Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl could face a "significant delay," as major Arizona Democrats continue to monitor the recovery of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Talking Points Memo reports. According to the report, Giffords, who could be entitled to the right of first refusal, "had long been viewed as a top-tier candidate to either challenge Kyl or run for an open seat, before the events in January." A former member of the House and acting Senate minority whip, Kyl announced today that he will not seek re-election for a fourth term in the Senate. Of course, ...
Little-Known 2010 Win: Progress Against Animal Cruelty
By Robert Ham - AOL NewsEditor's note: Everyone knows about health care reform, the tax cut deal, the end of "don't ask, don't tell." But in a contentious election year, Washington also managed to do much that, while it got little attention, will nevertheless make a difference in the lives of millions. So we asked our network of contributors on AOL's Seed to pore through the record and find the overlooked, underreported achievements. Here's one of the top 10. (For the complete list, go here.) This month, President Obama signed into law the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010. This bipartisan bill -- ...
Obama Signs Border Security Bill, Beefing Up Surveillance
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyPresident Obama signed into law a $600 billion border security bill Friday that will beef up surveillance on the U.S.- Mexico border. In a statement released Thursday, the president said the bill will make "an important difference" as his administration "continues to work with Congress toward bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform to secure our borders, and restore responsibility and accountability to our broken immigration system." In a press briefing on Friday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano hailed the bipartisan support for the bill and said the new law "demonstrates ...
Elena Kagan Filibuster: Jon Kyl, Other Republicans Throw in the Towel?
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAlthough no Republican senator has committed to voting for Elena Kagan to become the next justice on the Supreme Court, top party members said Sunday that an all-out effort to block President Obama's nominee is highly unlikely, Sen. Jon Kyl, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation" and made clear that he and many of his GOP colleagues have deep misgivings about Kagan's lack of judicial experience, her current work for the Obama administration and her role in limiting military recruiters' access to Harvard Law School students when she was the dean there. ...
Republicans Zero In on Kagan's Stance on Military Recruiting at Harvard
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPreviewing one of the issues certain to come up during confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, Senate Republicans made clear Sunday that Kagan's actions as dean of Harvard Law School in banning military recruiters would be a major point of contention. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said on ABC's This Week that Kagan's record on the military recruitment issue is "no little bitty matter," while committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), called it "sound and fury signifying nothing." The law school had adopted a policy in ...
Top Republican Says Filibuster of Supreme Court Nominee 'Unlikely'
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySenate Minority Whip Jon Kyl said Sunday he would not take the possibility of using a filibuster to try and block confirmation of whoever President Obama nominates to the Supreme Court "off the table," but he said the chances of Republicans using that tactic was "unlikely." "I am going to abide by what became known as the rule of the gang of 14," Kyl said on ABC's This Week. "It is unlikely that there would be a filibuster, except if there is an extraordinary circumstance." Kyl was referring to the group of seven Democratic and seven Republican senators who joined together to avert a major ...
GOP Leaders' Goal: Make Sure Health Bill 'Never Becomes Law'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIf Republicans want to get away from the "Party of No" label that Democrats have tried to stick them with all year, it wasn't apparent in the Capitol on Wednesday: Two top GOP leaders, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona and Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, said that their objective on health care reform is to stop the Democrats in their tracks. "Our goal . . . is to see that this never becomes law," Kyl said of the Democratic proposals to overhaul the health care system, which could get a vote in the House as early as next week. "We should instead stop and start over, as 73 percent of the American people ...
Robert Menendez, Jon Kyl and Paul Ryan on Fox News Sunday
By Bruce Drake - Politics Daily"FOX NEWS SUNDAY" FEBRUARY 28, 2010 SPEAKERS: CHRIS WALLACE, HOST SEN. ROBERT MENENDEZ, D-N.J. SEN. JOHN KYL, R-ARIZ. REP. PAUL D. RYAN, R-WIS. [*] WALLACE: I'm Chris Wallace, and this is "Fox News Sunday." The great divide over health care reform just got wider. Now the president is ready to act. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) OBAMA: I think we've got to go ahead and make some decisions and then that's what elections are for. (END VIDEO CLIP) WALLACE: we'll ask two key senators what happens next, Jon Kyl, the number two Republican, and Robert Menendez, who runs the Democrat Senate Campaign ...
Pelosi Says Democrats Will Keep Control of the House
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi Sunday predicted the Democrats will keep their majority in the House despite some of the rough rides it has been having in the polls and Republican warnings that Democrats will suffer political damage if health care reform legislation is "jammed down the throats of a public" that opposes it. Asked on CNN's State of the Union whether the Democrats will lose seats, as usually happens to the party in control of the White House during midterm elections, Pelosi answered instead, "Let me just say it this way, the Democrats will retain the majority in the House of ...
Axelrod Says Health Reform Supporters Are on the 'One Yard Line'
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySenior White House Adviser David Axelrod said today that supporters of health care reform are "right on the one-yard line" to push through passage of the legislation now that the Senate Democratic leadership says it has the 60 votes necessary to pass their version this week. ...
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