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By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyNew rankings of the Senate's most liberal members -- a list including Harry Reid and powerful committee chairmen Carl Levin and Patrick Leahy -- suggest moderates are fading from the scene on Capitol Hill. Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-Nev.), who was elected to a fifth term in November, has become more liberal in his voting record in the past three years, the National Journal said in its annual rankings. The magazine had the Senate leader as the 22nd most liberal lawmaker in 2009 and 25th on its list the year before that. Writer Ronald Brownstein said the vote ratings marked a peak in ...
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By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailySenators are meeting at 10 a.m. today to vote on amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which has some telecommunication companies stuck between a rock and a very hard place.FISA, which prohibits unauthorized electronic surveillance, has been under debate for some time as lawmakers try to decide, among other things, whether to offer retroactive legal immunity to telecom companies being sued for their alleged cooperation with the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretap program. Various amendments have been brought up, including one by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ...
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