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By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama tried to sway reluctant Republican senators on Monday to back a new arms control treaty with Russia as GOP aversion to giving a politically damaged president another victory intruded on his national security agenda. The White House and senior Democrats expressed confidence that they had the votes for the accord that was signed by Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April. The two countries negotiated the New START pact to cap nuclear weapons and restart weapons inspections in the spirit of U.S. efforts to reset the relationship between the ...
Why Dana Milbank Is Right (and Paul Krugman Is Wrong)
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyI don't usually bother looking at Paul Krugman's columns at the New York Times, but a recent post of his -- attacking the Washington Post's Dana Milbank -- deserves a closer look. Krugman, it seems, is livid at Milbank's assertion that during the health care debate, President Obama "acceded too easily to the wishes of Hill Democrats, allowing them to slow the legislation and engage in a protracted debate on the public option." (Milbank, of course, is just a conservative hack out to make liberals look bad. In fact, he's so conservative that he spent the last year of his life writing a book ...
START Treaty Wins Backing of GOP Senators Snowe, Collins
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe Obama White House, eager for the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia before Christmas, won the support Friday of two key senators, Maine Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, with just a few procedural strings attached. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said at a morning briefing, "Both Sen. Snowe and Sen. Collins are now supportive of ratification of START. I think if you look at the number of people -- the number of senators just on the Republican side over the past 10 days that have said this is something that's important, that they ...
GOP Senators Targeted in Six-Figure DREAM Act Ad Buy
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA coalition of labor and advocacy groups has launched a "six-figure" ad campaign aimed at Republican senators whose votes are needed to pass the DREAM Act before the current session of Congress runs out. The AFL-CIO said Tuesday that the ads will run in print publications and on radio all this week in Maine, Boston, Miami, Houston and Las Vegas. The GOP lawmakers being targeted are: Florida Sen. George LeMieux; Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe; Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown; Nevada Sen. John Ensign; and Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Most of them voted for the ...
Lady Gaga's New Video: A Message to Senators on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyLady Gaga is back at political activism. On Monday night, Lady Gaga released a two-minute black-and-white video via YouTube to update her fans on the status of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." "Right now, we're looking at tomorrow being a very important day for you guys all to really be paying attention," she says, sitting on a couch in what appears to be a dressing room. She adds: "Senators you have been put on notice by me and by the people of this country. You said you would debate and address this law when the Pentagon returned with a strategy and tomorrow morning you will have. Will you keep ...
Right for America or Wrong for Illegals? DREAM Act Takes Center Stage
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe most ardent proponents of the DREAM Act know their chances of victory in the next few weeks are slim, but they also know that failure is pretty much inevitable if they wait until next year. Thus we are in the midst of a full-court press on yet another cause that once had substantial bipartisan support, but may not any longer. DREAM, expected to come up for a vote in the year-end lame-duck session of Congress, is catchy shorthand for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors. Translation: The act would offer a path to citizenship – and economic prosperity -- for undocumented ...
Lady Gaga Fights 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' in Maine
By not in system - AOL NewsPORTLAND, Maine (Sept. 20) -- Pop star Lady Gaga visited the state Monday on the eve of a key Senate vote to urge its two U.S. senators to help repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays. More than 2,000 people attended a rally at Deering Oaks Park, where the Grammy Award-winning singer stood alongside Air Force, Army and Marine veterans who were discharged because of the policy, which prohibits service members from revealing if they're gay and recruiters from asking about people's sexual orientations. Lady Gaga railed against what she called the injustice of having ...
Nearly Two-Thirds of Maine Republicans Say Olympia Snowe is Too Liberal
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyMaine Sen. Olympia Snowe doesn't face election for another two years but the three-term lawmaker, who has a reputation as a Republican moderate who sometimes is willing to break with the party leadership, should be seeing this warning sign on her political radar: 64 percent of the state's Republicans say she is "too liberal," according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted Sept. 2-6. Eighty percent of Republicans who define themselves as conservatives declare her too liberal. Fifty-two percent say she more properly belongs in the Democratic Party compared to 36 percent who believe she ...
Obama Urges House Passage of Teacher Jobs Bill, Criticizes Republican Resistance
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyPresident Obama has urged the House to pass a $26 billion jobs bill that the president will save 160,000 teaching positions across the country. The measure has already gained passage in the Senate, passing by a margin of 61-39, with two Republican senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both of Maine, joining Democrats in support. House members have returned from their August recess to hold a special session to vote on the bill. In a statement issued in the White House Rose Garden, the president said the bill would prevent the layoff of not only educators but essential state employees, ...
Nancy Pelosi Will Call House Back From Recess to Act on Jobs Bill
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyVacation interruptus. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will call the U.S. House back from recess to finish work on a $26 billion bill that is expected to save tens of thousands of police, firefighter and teacher jobs across the country. With the help of two Republicans -- Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe -- the Senate broke a procedural logjam on the legislation and then approved it 61-39 on Thursday. That leaves it to the House to agree to the Senate version, but lawmakers recessed for the summer last week -- so Pelosi is telling her colleagues to return next week for one more roll ...
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