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DREAM Act Immigration Bill Delayed in the Senate
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Senate voted 59 to 40 Thursday to delay consideration of the DREAM Act, a bill that would give young illegal immigrants a path to citizenship if they complete two years of college or two years in the U.S. military. To qualify, they also must have arrived in the country before the age of 16 and have lived in the United States longer than five years. Following the vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that he hoped to bring a modified version of the bill back to the Senate for consideration next week. "We remain in our usual state in the Senate -- a state of flux," Reid ...
Senate Showdown Looming Over 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Senate will take a key vote Tuesday to avoid a Republican filibuster on the Department of Defense Authorization bill, the annual legislation that sets policies and spending levels for the Pentagon. But two controversial additions to the bill -- language to begin the repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in the military and a last-minute amendment to give young illegal immigrants a path to citizenship -- have significantly complicated the bill's fate. "Do we have the votes?" Sen. Carl Levin said Monday at a press conference. "My answer is, 'I don't know whether we have the votes or ...
Republican Reaction to Obama's Iraq Speech: Mostly Negative
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyPresident Obama's speech Tuesday night marking the end of combat operations in Iraq drew a largely -- but not universally -- negative response from Republicans. One particular sticking point for many Republicans was the president's failure to tip his cap to the apparent success in Iraq of the counterinsurgency "surge" strategy -- authored by Gen. David Petraeus and implemented by President George W. Bush over the objections of many Democrats, including then-Senators and presidential candidates Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Sen. John McCain, who ran against Obama in the 2008 general election ...
Mitch McConnell Scolds Al Franken: 'This Isn't Saturday Night Live'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAl Franken, the junior senator from Minnesota, got into some hot water Thursday with Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, who felt the need to remind the former comedian that he's not on "Saturday Night Live" anymore. The exchange came after McConnell delivered a speech on the Senate floor arguing against Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, which the Senate approved Thursday. At the time, Franken was serving as the presiding officer of the chamber, a duty assigned to all new senators that includes listening to the speeches of colleagues on the Senate floor. According ...
Obama's 49th: As a Lonely Guy Birthday, This One Takes the Cake
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyAug. 4 is President Obama's 49th birthday, but his wife is on a lavish vacay in Marbella, Spain, with their youngest daughter. And his eldest daughter is away at camp. At least Joe Biden will take him out to lunch -- right? Wrong. The prez is scheduled to have lunch "with senators" and follow that up with a one-on-one dessert-slash-sparring session with . . . Sen. Mitch McConnell, one of his strongest and most vocal opponents in Congress. What kind of birthday is this? Last year, it was singing and cupcakes with Helen Thomas -- and now even she isn't around to celebrate with. Sigh. At least ...
Jim DeMint: Conservative 'Kingmaker' or Inside-the-Beltway Interloper?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThanks to his aggressive involvement in a number of primary campaigns, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has been dubbed by some in the media as the conservative "kingmaker." But now, even some conservatives are quietly questioning whether that's an apt title. In recent months, DeMint has pulled a power play of sorts with his Senate Conservatives Fund, which essentially serves as a shadow National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). The PAC is run by Matt Hoskins, who also serves as DeMint's spokesman and who, according to one conservative who asked not to be named, "tries to be DeMint's 'big ...
Will Rand Paul Hand the Tea Party Movement Its Biggest Victory Ever?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyLOUISVILLE – Riding high in the polls, Rand Paul – the insurgent Senate candidate who has upended the Kentucky GOP primary and the son of libertarian firebrand Ron Paul – offered a preview of his anticipated triumphant message Tuesday night. "This has enormous implications for the power and the impact of the Tea Party movement," he declared. "If we win Tuesday, it will be the biggest victory for a Tea Party candidate in the country...It will show that the Tea Party can elect somebody." These words were delivered not on a campaign stage surrounded by sign-waving supporters, ...
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. ...
Senate Ends Taxpayer-Funded Bank Bailouts
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Senate made two significant changes to the Wall Street reform bill Wednesday, including a ban on using taxpayer money to salvage failing financial institutions. The amendments followed a breakthrough in negotiations between Democratic and Republican leaders. The first amendment came from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who proposed banning federal funds from being used to bail out large financial institutions. Boxer called her amendment "an ironclad assurance that if a failing Wall Street firm is liquidated, the cost of that liquidation must come either from selling off the firm's assets ...
Sen. Jim DeMint Backs Rand Paul in Kentucky Race, Bucks McConnell
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySen. Jim DeMint, a hard-edged conservative who has emerged as one of President Obama's most outspoken opponents on Capitol Hill, endorsed Kentuckian Rand Paul Wednesday over the establishment candidate in that state's Republican Senate race. In doing so, DeMint (R-S.C.) encroached on the turf of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is backing Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson in the May 18 primary. DeMint said he still supported McConnell as Senate leader, the AP said. But jumping into another senator's state to get involved in an intra-party dispute is an audacious move, ...
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