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Rename Department of Navy to Include Marines? Not So Fast, Says Pentagon
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyChanging the name of the Department of the Navy might not seem like a matter of national security when two wars are being fought and a major oil spill is threatening the environment of four states. But then again, to tens of thousands of active service members and veterans, maybe it is. The U.S. House, by unanimous consent, decided the agency should be re-titled the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps, giving proper respect to the United States Marines, The Hill newspaper reports. Sen. Pat Roberts, a Marine veteran, has 78 co-sponsors for a similar bill in the Senate, but he also has ...
John McCain's Bid to Send 6,000 Troops to Border Rebuffed in Senate
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe U.S. Senate rebuffed an effort by Sen. John McCain on Thursday to send 6,000 additional National Guard troops to the Mexican border to address security concerns. President Obama said earlier this week he would send up to 1,200 Guard troops to back up Border Patrol agents in the battle to block drug smuggling and control illegal entries. That wasn't enough for McCain, who is in a contentious Republican primary campaign against former Rep. J.D. Hayworth for his Senate seat in Arizona. He said 3,000 troops were needed just to help safeguard his own state, the Associated Press reported. But ...
Jim DeMint: Conservative 'Kingmaker' or Inside-the-Beltway Interloper?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThanks to his aggressive involvement in a number of primary campaigns, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has been dubbed by some in the media as the conservative "kingmaker." But now, even some conservatives are quietly questioning whether that's an apt title. In recent months, DeMint has pulled a power play of sorts with his Senate Conservatives Fund, which essentially serves as a shadow National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). The PAC is run by Matt Hoskins, who also serves as DeMint's spokesman and who, according to one conservative who asked not to be named, "tries to be DeMint's 'big ...
Obama Will Send 1,200 National Guard Troops to U.S.-Mexico Border
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to tighten security, it was announced Tuesday. The news broke just after Republicans introduced a measure to increase border patrols. Obama is also expected to ask for $500 million to support the Guard's activities. The troop announcement, made by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), followed a rare trip by Obama to Capitol Hill, where he appealed for Republican senators' support on his legislative priorities before the midterm elections. "It was a good, frank discussion on a whole range of issues," Obama ...
John McCain, Other GOP Senators Slam Calderon Immigration Remarks
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and several other Republican senators Thursday criticized remarks by Mexican President Filipe Calderon, who told a joint session of Congress that the recently passed Arizona immigration law amounts to racial profiling and called on lawmakers to pass comprehensive immigration reform. McCain, who led the doomed immigration reform effort in 2006 but is now calling for National Guard troops to help police the U.S. Mexico border, called Calderon's comments on his state's immigration law "unfortunate and disappointing." The law makes it a crime in Arizona to be without ...
Fannie Mae Bailout: Mortgage Giant Wants More Taxpayer Billions
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyTalk about bad timing. With the Senate in the thick of debate about reforming government oversight of the financial system, Fannie Mae, the quasi-public mortgage giant, reports that it lost $11.5 billion in the first three months of the year and needs another bailout --this time, $8.4 billion -- to keep going. Some Republican senators are so fed up that they introduced an amendment Monday to the reform bill calling on the Obama administration to cut loose Fannie and its cousin, Freddie Mac, within two years. Co-sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the proposal would force the companies to ...
New Study Tracks Mavericks in Congress (and John McCain Isn't One)
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made headlines last month when he inexplicably flip-flopped on his status as a "maverick," even though the outsider label was a key element of his 2008 presidential campaign. "I never considered myself a maverick," McCain told Newsweek magazine. A newly published academic paper determines that, whether he considered himself one or not, McCain was indeed a maverick during much of his Senate career -- but he hasn't been one lately (see graph). Ben Lauderdale, a Ph.D. student in Princeton's Department of Politics, told The Washington Independent he defines mavericks ...
McCain, Brewer Leading Their GOP Primary Opponents in Arizona
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyIn Arizona's pair of GOP primary races, Sen. John McCain still has a double-digit lead over former conservative talk show host J.D. Hayworth although he's slipped under 50 percent support, while Gov. Jan Brewer leads the field of fellow Republicans who want her job, according to a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll conducted May 3-5. McCain is leading Hayworth 48 percent to 36 percent with 6 percent preferring someone else and 10 percent undecided. He had led 52 percent to 37 percent in Research 2000's last poll in late March. In the gubernatorial primary race, Brewer, who made national news when ...
Shahzad Arrest Ignites Debate Over Miranda Warnings for Accused Terrorists
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyA debate over whether suspected Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad should have been read his Miranda rights reached Capitol Hill Tuesday, with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer saying doing so was the correct course of action. Law enforcement officials said they first interrogated Shahzad under a public safety exception, in case another attack was imminent, but then read him his Miranda rights, which he waived. "This is a U.S. citizen, arrested on U.S. soil, and subject to the constitutional protections and constraints of every U.S. citizen. He is obviously suspected of committing a crime, ...
Arizona Politics: Brewer's Stock Up, McCain's Down
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyArizona has two embattled Republicans in Gov. Jan Brewer and Sen. John McCain who are both facing primary challenges, but while one new poll shows Brewer's stock going up after signing a tough law to crack down on illegal immigrants, another found what it called "a Charlie Crist like drop" in McCain's job approval numbers. A Rasmussen Reports poll conducted April 27 said that Brewer had widened her lead over Democrat Terry Goddard, the state attorney general, to 48 percent to 40 percent with 7 percent preferring another choice and 5 percent undecided. In mid-April, before signing the ...
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