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Wise Women Unite! What Sotomayor Should Have Said

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Racial Politics, Latinos, Women's Rights, Women, Senator Leahy, Latino Politics, Senator Sessions, Sonia Sotomayor, Obama Administration, Race, White Men, Confirmation Hearings, Politics News
C. Nicole Mason

Racial and ethnic minorities and women are the only groups asked to check their identity at the door. It is assumed that once given access to power, they will try to funnel those resources to their own kind.

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A Tale of Two Houses: Congress Debates the Peace Corps

Laurence Leamer | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peace Corps, Senator Leahy, Representative Nita Lowey, Sam Farr, Cliff Stearns, Face the Nation, morepeacecorps.org, Sonia Sotomayor, Leahy, Bob Schieffer, Kit Bond, Senator Bond, Politics News
Laurence Leamer

Sen. Leahy detailed how, during the Bush years, the Peace Corps had arrogantly ignored his repeated requests for information. I told him it was a new administration and a new time, but that didn't seem to matter.

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Senator Leahy Holds the Future of the Peace Corps in His Hands

Laurence Leamer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peace Corps, Senator Leahy, Indonesia, Vietnam, Appropriations, Shriver, Development, Sierra Leone, Senate, Obama Administration, Politics News
Laurence Leamer

Thursday, Leahy will have the power to give birth to a bold new Peace Corps or possibly to destroy that dream forever.

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Senator Leahy's Letter to the G.A.O., the Investigative Arm of the U.S. Congress

Sunil Chacko | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Oversight, Lugar, Bayh, Senator Leahy, G.a.O., President Obama, Coburn, World Bank, Transparency, Google for Government, Accountability, Deputy General Counsel Daniel Gordon, Acting Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, Politics News
Sunil Chacko

The letter to the G.A.O., the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress, now over a year old, was sent by U.S. Senators Leahy, Bayh and Lugar following the disappearance of the Bayh Amendment.

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Chris Dodd's Peace Corps: "The Ambitious Sense of the Possible"

Laurence Leamer | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peace Corps, Senator Leahy, President Obama, Patrick Leahy, Appropriations, Senator Dodd, Chris Dodd, House Appropriations, Development, Kit Bond, Senator Bond, Politics News
Laurence Leamer

Dodd's bill was born not in his office in the Russell Building but in the tiny village of Moncion in the Dominican Republic more than forty years ago.

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Clinton Says Release Of Detainee Photos Could Endanger U.S. Diplomats

The Plum Line | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator Leahy, Obama Photos, Detainee Photos, State Department, Clinton, Terrorism, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Enhanced Interrogations, Interrogations Photos, Patrick Leahy, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

I noted here yesterday that at a press conference, Senator Lindsey Graham disclosed that Hillary Clinton had privately confided to him that she worrie...

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I.O.U. Who?

Judith Ellis | Posted 03.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Iraq War, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Senator Leahy, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Trade Deficit, Bailout, Budget, Economy, Treasury Secretary Paul O'neill, President Obama, Tax Cuts, Banks, President Reagan, President Bush, I.O.U.S.A., Republican Party, Business News
Judith Ellis

The documentary, I.O.U.S.A, was recently brought to my attention and it will probably be the most sobering clip that you will ever see about the state of the economy.

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G-7, G-14 and G-20: Yet Another Tardy Call

Sunil Chacko | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oversight, Senator Leahy, Bush v. Gore, Robert Zoellick, World Summit on the Financial Crisis, World Bank, Senator Obama, George W. Bush, Senator Lugar, Multilaterals, Senator Biden, G-7, G-14, Financial Crisis, G-20, Politics News
Sunil Chacko

First the years-late call on the global food crisis. Now, Robert Zoellick, current World Bank president, has done it again on the international financial crisis.

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