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Past House GOP Tactic Proves Useless to Democrats
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A year ago, when Republicans were in the minority on Capitol Hill, they drove Democrats crazy by using an obscure parliamentary maneuver to change, delay and even kill Democratic priorities. Now that Republicans are running the House, Democrats have tried to stymie the GOP agenda by relying on the tactic, known as the motion to recommit. But they've failed on every one of their 23 attempts this year. That motion is almost always the last step just before the final vote on a bill. It gives the minority party, which has little voice and few rights in the House, a last chance to ...
University Prof Calls for Congressional UFO Hearing
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsCongress has a full plate of hearings coming up. Everything from medical liability reform, creating and promoting jobs and investigating Internet child pornography to assessing China's behavior and making immigration work for American minorities. Do you think the House or Senate will have any extra time to discuss UFOs? While it sometimes might seem as though our lawmakers are from outer space, this hasn't stopped one college professor from urging Congress to take a serious look at unidentified flying objects. Citing findings from a 12-year-old groundbreaking French UFO study, University of ...
No Budget Deal Yet as Possible Government Shutdown Looms
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Senate's second ranking Democrat said Wednesday that negotiators on the budget are making progress but that conservative GOP policy prescriptions remain obstacles as they scramble to avert a government shutdown this weekend. "I feel better today than I did yesterday," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. "There's been a direct negotiation -- things put on the table that had not been discussed before and I think we're moving towards closure." AP / Getty Images A bipartisan White House meeting on Tuesday involving President Barack Obama, Speaker of the House John Boehner ...
Last WWI Vet Buckles Will Lie in Basement at Arlington, Not Capitol Rotunda
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The last American doughboy from World War I will lie in honor in a basement chapel of the amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery -- not the U.S. Capitol rotunda -- and then be interred on Tuesday. In a brief announcement, the cemetery said Army Cpl. Frank Buckles, who died at 110 on Feb. 27, will be "memorialized" and will "lie in honor" at Arlington's Memorial Amphitheater Chapel from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. for the public to pay their last respects. There is no ceremony planned in the amphitheater, even though congressional leaders said they had asked the Pentagon to allow a ...
The Important Supreme Court Decision You Didn't Hear About Last Week
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIf you think Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church made out well last week before the U.S. Supreme Court, consider the case of Jason Pepper. The confessed former methamphetamine dealer won his own case last week at the high court -- and may not have to go back to prison for his old crime (he was released pending the appeal). More significantly, the court's ruling struck yet another blow against sentencing guidelines. The reason you probably haven't heard much about Pepper is because the decision in his case, Pepper v. United States, came out last Wednesday just a few minutes before the ...
Bernanke: Mideast Threat to US Economy Is Mild -- For Now
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsThe spike in fuel prices, sparked by Mideast turmoil, currently poses only a mild threat of broader inflation because the ailing U.S. jobs market has kept a lid on wages, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress today. But a continuing rise in the prices of oil and other commodities like steel, cotton and food could threaten both the economic recovery and stability for the cost of daily life for most Americans, Bernanke said. "In the past few weeks, concerns about unrest in the Middle East and North Africa and the possible effects on global oil supplies have led oil and gasoline ...
House Republicans Revive Abortion as Hot-Button Issue
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The annual March for Life disbanded on Capitol Hill last month, but the controversy over abortion lingers on as Republicans in Congress put the perennial hot-button issue at the top of their agenda this week. Several bills to cut funding for abortion services are the subject of hearings and news conferences by GOP lawmakers and their socially conservative allies: The House Judiciary Committee today held a hearing on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J. The bill would make permanent the annually renewed Hyde Amendment that bans ...
Leaders in Both Parties Prepare for First Day of New Congress
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Declaring that "everybody has to do more with less," incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor today laid out a Republican agenda of austerity for the 112th Congress that aims to do away with much that Democrats accomplished in the 111th. "Clearly the people of this country spoke out," said the Virginia Republican. "That election was a repudiation of what has gone on in this town. It wasn't necessarily an election about us." Cantor related what he told freshmen Republicans, many of them elected with tea party support, saying he would run his caucus by a "three-part rule." The ...
2010 Was the Year of the Tea Party Movement
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- This was the year of the tea party. What began as a rant on cable TV morphed into a populist movement and political juggernaut in 2010 as conservatives turned against the status quo. Leaning Republican but willing to attack the party establishment, the burgeoning crusade pummeled the policies and persona of President Barack Obama and decisively ended the Democratic monopoly in Congress. "The tea party from beginning to end really defined this election cycle," said Kate Zernike, a New York Times reporter who wrote "Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America." "The mood that they ...
Is There Life After Congress? Former Members Help Colleagues Cope
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyIs there life after Congress? Dozens of House and Senate members -- whether booted out by voters or bowing out by choice -- have grappled with that ominous question for weeks. And who better to offer guidance -- and perhaps even identity crisis intervention -- than lawmakers who previously walked those same halls of power? Related Stories The Civility Tour: Jim Leach Throws the Opposite of a Tea Party On Monday, behind closed doors in the underground U.S. Capitol Visitors Center, the Association of Former Members of Congress will provide a mix of wise counsel and tough love for ...
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