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Senate Republicans have set a modern-day record of their use of the filibuster with their blockage of a federal omnibus spending bill, according to the liberal-leaning Campaign for America's Future.
The ABA Journal posted an article titled "Lawyers of the Year 2007 & 2008" on ABA Journal.com, on Dec. 12, 2007. The article defined that term as the year's biggest legal newsmaker, identifying former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as the major newsmaker of 2007.
A leading Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of interfering in congressional inquiries into corruption in Iraq's government and the activities of U.S. security firm Blackwater.
Why no conference? Because a Republican member of the United States Senate wouldn't let us go to conference. That's why there was no conference. He stood day after day after day objecting to adopting this important reform package.
"I do not find your testimony credible." Neither do I. I think it all started when you couldn't recollect any recollection of recalling that date.
The entire Libby affair is an unabashed and unforgivable political SNAFU. On this sentence, and on little else, both Conservatives and Liberals, Democrats and Republicans can agree.
President Bush's commutation of the 30-month prison sentence for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, is neither wise nor just. It is clearly within the president's executive powers, but that is beside the point.
The revelations come fast and furious.
I Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been found guilty on four out of five charges. The Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney has been convicted of charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements.
Like a retreating army, Republicans are tearing up railroad track and planting legislative land mines to make it harder for Democrats to govern when they take power in Congress next month.
Former Governor of Illinois George Ryan has been sentence to 6 1/2 years in federal prison. Not that it's stopping any of the continuing corruption in Illinois state government or anything...
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