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By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Senate has voted to close out debate on a new arms control treaty with Russia, setting the stage for ratification of the accord. The vote was 67-28 and was seen in part as a proxy vote for the final tally. President Barack Obama considers the treaty his top foreign policy priority in the postelection Congress. Almost a dozen Republicans joined all the Democrats in calling for an end to the debate. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton were at the Capitol lobbying lawmakers. Earlier in the day, Obama locked up the votes for ratification of ...
CIA Won't Be Charged for Destroying Videotapes
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Nov. 9) -- No one at the Central Intelligence Agency will face criminal charges for destroying videotapes that showed suspected terrorists being waterboarded, the Justice Department announced today. After an "exhaustive" investigation spanning nearly three years, federal prosecutor John Durham has decided not to bring charges in the case, Department of Justice spokesman Matthew Miller said today in a statement. Jose Rodriguez, the CIA's former head of clandestine operations, ordered the 2005 destruction of more than 90 tapes showing the harsh interrogation of detainees Abu Zubaydah and Abd ...
Midterm Elections 2010: Ugly Campaigns, Scared Incumbents and Angry Voters
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyFor more than half a century, the reigning ethos in Washington was neatly articulated in the succinct wisdom of Speaker Sam Rayburn, words imparted to freshmen members of Congress when they first arrived in the nation's capital: "If you want to get along, go along." A sprawling congressional office building is named after the former speaker from Texas, and in January some of the new members of the congressional class chosen Tuesday by voters will set up shop in the Rayburn House Office Building. Some of them, however, will know in their hearts that they got here on the strength of a ...
Bank Bailout Vote Comes Back to Haunt Lawmakers Up for Election
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyWhile the $700 billion bailout of banks has been credited with containing the financial meltdown of 2008, many lawmakers who voted for it -- Republicans as well as Democrats -- have found it to be a political albatross in this year's elections, the New York Times reports. The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was proposed by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, with the backing of then President Bush and the Democratic congressional leadership. But in this election year with its strong anti-Washington overtones, members of Congress who voted ...
Tea Party Favorite Mike Lee Starts with Huge Lead in Utah Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublican Mike Lee, a Tea Party favorite and choice of the Senate Conservatives Fund, emerged from his come-from-behind victory in the Utah GOP Senate primary this week with a 58 percent to 28 percent lead over Democratic nominee Sam Granato, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted June 23. Five percent preferred another candidate and 9 percent were undecided. Lee's huge lead is hardly a surprise. A Democrat has represented Utah in the Senate for four decades, and the winner of the GOP primary was considered a shoo-in for election. The last Democrat from the state to hold the job was ...
Utah Republicans Choose Successor to Robert Bennett on Tuesday
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyBusinessman Tim Bridgewater and lawyer Mike Lee -- the two men who came out ahead of three-term Republican Sen. Robert Bennett for the GOP Senate nomination in last month's Republican convention -- head into Tuesday's primary with Bridgewater nursing a modest lead, according to a Deseret News/KSL-TV poll conducted June 12-17. The winner is likely to be the state's senator given its conservative politics and given that Utah has not elected a Democrat in four decades. Bridgewater leads Lee by 42 percent to 33 percent with 25 percent undecided among likely voters. The margin of error is 4 ...
Tea Party Sentiment Bodes Ill for GOP's Robert Bennett in Utah
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThere were already ominous signs for Utah's three-term Sen. Robert Bennett heading into this Saturday's GOP state convention. A head count showed that only one-fifth of the delegates from 2008's conclave had been re-elected to this one, signaling a changing of the guard -- and the party's mood. Bennett could hardly be cheered by a new survey, conducted for the Deseret News/KSL-TV, that found 55 percent of the 3,500 delegates strongly or somewhat agree with the Tea Party movement's campaign for states' rights and a smaller federal government. Bennett has become a target for Tea Party ...
Utah's Bennett Vulnerable to a Challenge for the GOP Senate Nomination
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThree-term Sen. Robert Bennett of Utah is one of the targets of conservative activists unhappy with Republicans who they regard as too entrenched in Washington ways, and a Rasmussen Reports poll, conducted April 8, paints him as vulnerable with only 37 percent support from likely Republican primary voters. Bennett may not even get as far as a primary. The twist in Utah is that candidates contend first in a state convention, which will be held May 8, and if any one of them gets 60 percent of the delegates, he or she gets the nomination. If that doesn't happen, the two top vote-getters face off ...
Most in Utah Want Anybody-but-Bennett for Senate Next Year
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFifty-eight percent of Utah residents say their three-term Republican senator, Robert Bennett, should not get a fourth term. But what might save him is the fact that no strong challengers have emerged, according to a Deseret News/KSL-TV poll conducted Nov. 19-23. ...
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