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Obama Getting Heat From Left and Right for U.S. Role in Libyan Attacks
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyPresident Obama is getting blowback from both sides of the aisle for taking military action in Libya without first formally consulting Congress. Debate in Washington heated up even before reports Tuesday that a U.S. warplane, patrolling Libyan air space, had crashed. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), a conservative member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Obama's "unilateral choice" to join a U.N.-backed coalition establishing a no-fly zone "is an affront to our Constitution," The Hill newspaper reported. The United States, Bartlett said, "does not have a king's army." Meanwhile, a CBS ...
Opinion: Gun Control Emotions vs. Gun Control Facts
By not in system - AOL NewsJust 24 hours after the shooting in Tucson, politicians were calling for more gun control. And the drumbeat has continued. On Sunday, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for using the information supplied on people's applications to join the military to determine whether they will be banned from buying guns. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind., promised a new push for renewing at least part of the federal assault weapons ban. The previous week had been filled with calls for everything from gun show regulations to a thousand-foot gun-free zone around politicians. But ...
Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, 78, to Run Again Despite Tea Party Grumbles
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyLet others take early retirement. Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a mainstream conservative, says he will seek a seventh term in 2012 even if he has to fend off a threat from the political right. He will be 80 years old when the election rolls around. Lugar told reporters at a breakfast meeting in Washington Tuesday he intends to take any opposition seriously, the AP and Indianapolis Star reported. He has already raised at least $2.4 million and will head back to Indiana Friday for a major fundraising event in Carmel, just outside of Indianapolis. Lugar, the top ranking Republican on the Senate ...
Obama Lobbies Republican Senators to Back Arms Pact
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama tried to sway reluctant Republican senators on Monday to back a new arms control treaty with Russia as GOP aversion to giving a politically damaged president another victory intruded on his national security agenda. The White House and senior Democrats expressed confidence that they had the votes for the accord that was signed by Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April. The two countries negotiated the New START pact to cap nuclear weapons and restart weapons inspections in the spirit of U.S. efforts to reset the relationship between the ...
McConnell Will Oppose START Treaty; Reid Sets Vote to End Debate
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that he would not support the new START nuclear arms control treaty with Russia if it comes to a vote in the lame duck session, but the two top members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee – Democrat John Kerry and Republican Richard Lugar – predicted its passage. Kerry, chairman of the Senate panel, said on ABC's "This Week," "I believe it will pass, and I believe there will be a vote." Lugar, the committee's ranking member and one of the GOP's elder statesmen on foreign policy issues, said on the same show: "Several ...
START Treaty Backed by George H.W. Bush; Obama Predicts Passage
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFormer President George H.W. Bush came out Wednesday in support of the arms-control treaty with Russia known as New START, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who served under former President George W. Bush, backed the pact on Tuesday. Whether the endorsements can budge skeptical Senate Republicans remains to be seen, but the Obama White House remains optimistic it can get the 67 votes -- a super majority -- needed for New START to pass. "I am confident that we are going to be able to get the START treaty on the floor, debated and completed before we break for the holidays," ...
Richard Lugar Is Hopeful START Can Be Passed This Month
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyCount at least one Republican in: Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar says he's optimistic the START arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia will be ratified during Congress' lame-duck session this month. Interviewed Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," Lugar said a treaty vote could occur after a deal is reached on extending the Bush tax cuts across the board, as is expected to happen -- on at least a temporary basis -- this week. "We're on the threshold," Lugar said of the START vote. "I hope we will, and I think if we do, the votes are there." Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), however, holds a ...
Right for America or Wrong for Illegals? DREAM Act Takes Center Stage
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe most ardent proponents of the DREAM Act know their chances of victory in the next few weeks are slim, but they also know that failure is pretty much inevitable if they wait until next year. Thus we are in the midst of a full-court press on yet another cause that once had substantial bipartisan support, but may not any longer. DREAM, expected to come up for a vote in the year-end lame-duck session of Congress, is catchy shorthand for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors. Translation: The act would offer a path to citizenship – and economic prosperity -- for undocumented ...
Message to GOP: Don't Kill START Just to Spite Obama
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News
(Nov. 17) -- The lame duck Congress faces two important decisions and should not let partisan politics get in the way of national interest. First, it needs to extend tax cuts for middle-class Americans. Second, it needs to ratify a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia. The first is a no-brainer at a time when nearly 10 percent of Americans are unemployed and the recovery from the worst recession in half a century is anemic at best. But the second is also a no-brainer. Especially for those who believe that Russia is still a threat to America two decades after the end of the ...
Richard Lugar: GOP Can't Just Be the Party of 'No'
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Shakh Aivazov, AP Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. (Nov. 15) -- The substantial gains this November present Republicans with enormous opportunities and, correspondingly, great responsibilities to an electorate demanding substantial changes in public policy from a Congress that will be responsive to its concerns. Many analysts attribute the strong Republican trend to the visible anger of millions of Americans. Among some in Democratic leadership and the media, "anger" is shorthand for dismissing the scope and legitimacy of frustration -- which found expression in the tea party movement -- with the ...
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