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GOP Congressmen Apologize For Missing Oath

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reps. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) and Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.) have sent out a letter to their GOP colleagues apologizing for the procedural snafu they ...

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Democrats Continue To Hammer GOP On Bush Agenda, Launch $28 Million Ad Buy

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee unveiled a new web video this week that hammered home an issue introduced by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex...

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Don't Protect Patent Lying

Daniel B. Ravicher | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is no rational explanation for Senators Leahy, Sessions, Schumer, Hatch, Kyl and Kaufman's sudden rush to overturn a 150-year-old law that protects citizens against companies making false claims.

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Pete Sessions Spokesman Defends 'I Love You' Email To Allen Stanford

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Miami Herald reported on Sunday that Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.) once penned a love note of sorts to jailed financier Allen Stanford. "I love yo...

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Pete Sessions To Stanford: 'I Love You'

Miami Herald | By MICHAEL SALLAH and ROB BARRY | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just hours after federal agents charged banker Allen Stanford with fleecing investors of $7 billion, the disgraced financier received a message from o...

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Obama's Second Hundred Days

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."

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Earmark Critic Pete Sessions Steered Money To Aide, Blimp

Politico | JOHN BRESNAHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Pete Sessions -- the chief of the Republicans' campaign arm in the House -- says on his website that earmarks have become "a symbol of a broken W...

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Sotomayor Challenge Blows Up in Sessions' Face

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ouch! Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), seeking to discredit Judge Sonia Sotomayor's judicial philosophy, cited her 2001 "wise Latina" speech, and contr...

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Sessions Suggests Sotomayor Should Have Been Influenced By Her Ancestry (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A sort of weird moment transpired towards the end of Sen. Jeff Sessions questioning of Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday. Arguing that the Supreme Cour...

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Sessions Claims Sotomayor Tied To "Extreme" Group

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A civil rights group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the 1980s brought several discrimination lawsuits that sou...

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Sessions Worked Behind Scenes To Get Palin Reinvited To GOP Fundraiser

The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011

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In another sign of the sway that Sarah Palin and her supporters in Palin Nation hold over the GOP, NRCC chief Pete Sessions is working behind the scen...

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Listening to Liz Cheney falsely suggest that President Obama wants to deal with terrorists by "hand-holding," and falsely insist that her father never suggested there was a link between 9/11 and Iraq made me wish that TV execs were planning to do a political version of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! I'd much rather see Cheney put a tarantula in her mouth (a la Patti Blagojevich) than continually sticking her foot there. She could be joined in the jungle by fellow foot muncher Sen. Jeff Sessions, who demonstrated the value of empathy when he showed none, reacting to the tears of a 12-year old boy whose mother is facing deportation by saying, "Enough with the histrionics." And there is still time to suggest the 5-word acceptance speech I should give at tomorrow's Webby Awards.

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Friday Talking Points [80] -- Parsing Obama's Cairo Speech

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.

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Senator Sessions, Judge Sotomayor, And Racism

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignor...

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Senate Rejects McCain In Bipartisan Fashion

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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The bottom line of this story is that nine out of forty-one Republican senators just broke ranks with their party and voted to strip a McCain amendment from a budget bill.

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