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Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.25.2011
Congress is setting up a battle between generations, young vs. old. The real battle should be those who can pay and are getting away with this vs. those who cannot pay and do not have a voice in government.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
It is downright ludicrous to say that a Nobel Prize-winning economist is somehow not qualified to get a job running economic policy for the government. Until Sen. Richard Shelby realizes this, Obama and the White House should point it out.
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A Democratic plan to rein in the financial industry is flawed because it fails to tighten control over two large government-sponsor...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011
The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee said Thursday that he doesn't expect Republicans on the panel to get much accomplished in shaping t...
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011
With imports soaring, we're stimulating the production of China, not the US. The Obama administration refuses to enforce our trade laws to protect the economy and change our tax laws to promote exports.
AP | Jim Kuhnhenn | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration waded into negotiations over Wall Street regulations Wednesday, calling for limits on the size of financia...
Victor Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
As a partial solution to appointment obstructionism, President Obama can and should exercise his unilateral authority and fill many federal vacancies with the stroke of a pen -- during any Senate break of his choosing.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama this week has successfully put the Republican Party on the defensive. This could be a fleeting thing, or it could be the start of a whole new way for Obama's administration to operate.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama will stop blocking Senate confirmation of about 70 government appointees nominated by Pre...
Politico | Manu Raju | Posted 05.25.2011
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid used to consider recess appointments "an end run around the Senate and the Constitution" -- so much so that he kept ...
Jonathan Richards | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Shelby and his colleagues on the negative side of the aisle think things are moving just a little too fast in the Senate. ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Democrats need to realize that they still have the biggest majority in both houses of Congress that they are likely to see in their lifetimes.
Michael Kieschnick | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Shelby of Alabama has done us all a favor through his brazen attempt to extort the Obama Administration by placing a hold on 70 critical appointees simply to obtain some financial pork.
TPMDC | Evan McMorris | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary "blanket hold" on at least 70 nominations President Obama has sent to the Senate, CongressDaily (s...
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The top Senate Democrat and Republican negotiating new Wall Street regulation said Wednesday they expect to resolve their differenc...
Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011
This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) why he believes the Obama administration is "taking us down the r...
Wall Street Journal | JON HILSENRATH | Posted 05.25.2011
The ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee called it "deeply disturbing" that Stephen Friedman, who is chairman of the Federal Reserve Ban...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: Richard Shelby's spokesman said the Cullman Times report in which he appears to question President Obama's citizenship is a "distortion" and t...
Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011
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The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 06.28.2011