Stories tagged "reid"

Sens. Harry M. Reid and Mitch McConnell are well known as men of very few words who, given their druthers, will try to give a "yep" or "nope" answer to even the most complicated question.

Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) office hit back Monday at new attempts to prevent him from delivering babies for free, arguing the Ethics panel might as well investigate Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) cameo in “The Dark Knight.”

When it comes to offshore drilling, a growing number of Obama's Senate colleagues are distancing themselves from his steadfast opposition. They're even starting to side openly with McCain's proposal to allow it. First it was Sen. Durbin, the senior senato

DCCC chief Chris Van Hollen endorsed Barack Obama this morning, but the rest of the party leadership held off a bit longer, signaling their impatience with Clinton's staying in the race, set her a deadline of Friday in a superficially neutral statement re

During today’s Firedoglake Book Salon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) promised that the Senate would be holding hearings on the Pentagon’s propaganda program, which was first disclosed by the New York Times on April 20. Reid’s announcement

The Senate let by Democrat In Name Only Harry Reid, has passed a FISA bill that would allow for telecom immunity and the president has called on the house to agree to it. The bill had large bi-partisan support, specifically surrounding the telcom immunity

Two deals the administration is working on would effectively protect corporate America from any sort of legal redress when they spy on you, or wantonly murder civilians in Iraq, or anywhere else they are providing “security”.

Playing to type, Dick Cheney just gave a speech at the well-funded conservative echo chamber The Heritage Foundation calling for making the Protect America First Act permanent.

Congratulations to Senator Dodd for showing what a little backbone can do.

"Senator Chris Dodd won a temporary victory today after his threats of a filibuster forced Democratic leadership to push back consideration of a measure that would grant immunity to telecom companies that were complicit in warrantless surveillance."