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Lockerbie Bomber's Release Was Allowed on 'False Prognosis,' U.S. Senators Say
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySixteen months ago, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing, was given three months to live. The Scottish government, over U.S. protests, released him from prison on "compassionate grounds" because of his supposedly advanced prostate cancer and allowed him to return to Libya to die. He's still alive. In a scathing new report, four U.S. senators conclude al-Megrahi was let go as a result of a "flawed prognosis" that Scottish officials went along with at a time when the United Kingdom feared Libya would wage "commercial warfare" and thwart an ...
Obama to Hispanic Caucus: Calls for DREAM Act Passage, but No Specifics
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyMeeting with leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the White House Tuesday, President Obama reiterated his support for fixing the country's "broken immigration system" -- but gave little indication that in this year's remaining lame-duck congressional session, his administration could win passage of key legislation granting legal status to some illegal immigrant students. The president, in a White House statement released following the meeting, thanked caucus members Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) "for their constant ...
Congressional Hispanic Leaders to Obama: Put Immigration on Lame Duck Agenda
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyCongressional Hispanic Caucus leaders will meet with President Barack Obama on Tuesday afternoon to encourage the White House to push for an immigration deal in the lame duck session, Politics Daily has learned. The meeting will be with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.). It comes as immigration reform advocates worry that the incoming GOP controlled House will not be inclined to take up any comprehensive immigration measures--not even the DREAM Act, which stops deportation of students who grew up in the United States even though they ...
Dems, GOP Recalibrate Strategy a Month to Election
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WASHINGTON (Oct. 2) -- Democrats have all but written off at least three Senate seats - in North Dakota, Indiana and Arkansas - and at least six House seats in Tennessee, Louisiana, New York and elsewhere as they embark on a final-weeks advertising push to minimize congressional election losses. Emboldened by their prospects, Republicans recently threw $1.3 million into West Virginia in hopes of winning a Senate seat that was long thought out of reach. It was the GOP's latest move to expand a playing field already heavily tilting its way. In the one-month dash to Election Day, both parties ...
Democrats Court Hispanics with Promises, Pleas and the 'Dream Act'
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK -- Swept aside by other more urgent campaign issues, a long-delayed immigration bill re-surfaced last week when leading Democrats needing Hispanic support in the midterms decided to bring to a vote legislation that would open a path to citizenship for students who are illegal immigrants. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader who finds himself in the political battle of his life against a Tea Party candidate, said he would attach the immigration bill to a defense spending measure. If passed, the immigration bill would give legal status to students who came to the United ...
Republican Money Pouring in From Outside Sources for Midterm Races
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWith post-Labor Day campaigning for the midterm election intensifying, outside interest groups are pouring in money for television commercials to back Republicans in races for House and Senate seats. An array of Republican-oriented independent groups have been established so they can accept contributions of individuals and corporations in unlimited amounts without disclosing the source, according to the New York Times. This is what campaign finance reform advocates feared after the Supreme Court's January ruling on the Citizens United case, which lifted restrictions on direct corporate and ...
Oil Companies, Including BP and Transocean, Reap Big Tax Breaks
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyOil companies like BP and Transocean, the company that owned the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, reap about $4 billion a year in tax breaks by taking advantage of provisions in U.S. laws "available at virtually every stage of the exploration and extraction process," according to the New York Times. Transocean has been ably to significantly reduce its taxes by moving its headquarters from Houston to the Cayman Islands in 1999 and then to Switzerland two years ago. It also reduced the taxes it paid by registering the Deepwater Horizon under the flag of the Marshall Islands. BP ...
Raising Liability Costs Could Help BP, GOP Warns
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAmong the many efforts in Congress to rein in large oil companies in the wake of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a proposal by several Democrats to raise or even eliminate the cap on liability costs for oil companies drilling off the coast of the United States. As the law is now written, companies like BP must pay to clean up any oil they spill, but their liability costs are capped at $75 million if they are not found guilty of gross negligence or willful misconduct. In recent weeks, Senate Democrats have introduced bills to exponentially raise oil companies' liability to $10 ...
Joe Sestak Refuses Questions on Alleged White House Job Offer
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyInside the opulent Mansfield room on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) received a warm ovation Tuesday from the 58 Democratic senators who could be his new colleagues in November if he wins the Pennsylvania Senate race. But walking into the formal senators-only lunch, Sestak was dogged by reporters with questions about his past, specifically about allegations that Sestak made during his heated primary battle against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) that the White House had offered him a job in the administration to drop his bid to unseat Specter. Controversy ...
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 ...
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