Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), who still trails his generic Republican opposition in his bid for re-election, is defending his bribes to members of the Senate in order to win their support of ObamaCare:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) offered a vigorous defense Monday of the deals [...]
I can hear you saying, "2nd least valuable? Is there a list of these people somewhere?" In fact, yes, there is - Nate Silver has been at it again. Through some complicated math-like stuff I'm glad I don't have to personally understand, Nate scored reps on ten key votes [...]
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) raised a point of order yesterday to force a vote on the constitutionality of the individual mandate that is a central piece of ObamaCare:
“Forcing every American to purchase a product is absolutely inconsistent with our Constitution and the freedoms [...]
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While America was sleeping, the United States Senate took up a procedural vote that sets up ObamaCare for final passage, likely on Christmas Eve:Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a [...]
It looks like Senate Democrats are going to have the 60 votes needed to move towards final passage for ObamaCare after Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) struck a deal on abortion and took a bribe for pork:
Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the final Democratic holdout on health care, was prepared [...]
While most families will be out drinking egg nog, celebrating with friends and family or tucking their kids into bed for Christmas, Senate Majority Leader The Grinch Harry Reid may be putting a big lump of coal in taxpayers’ stockings.
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Live blogging the caucus meeting: Ralston wins speaker vote | Gold Dome Live [...] Georgia Rep. Tommy Smith (R-Nicholls) is withdrawing his candidacy for state House speaker, the day before the Republican caucus was set to vote. Smith, a South Georgia blueberry farmer, said his support didn’t materialize.
“It doesn’t look I’ve got the votes,” he told the AJC.
The former Democrat and a 30-year member [...]
Below are what lobbyists have spent on candidates for the three open leadership spots in the House Republican Caucus in the first three quarters of 2009. You can find more detail here.
Candidates for Speaker
Larry O’Neal - $5,292.57Bill Hembree - $1,653.60David Ralston - $1,330.02Barry Loudermilk - $596.57Tommy Smith [...]
Below are what lobbyists have spent on candidates for the three open leadership spots in the House Republican Caucus in the first three quarters of 2009. You can find more detail here.
Candidates for Speaker
Larry O’Neal – $5,292.57 Bill Hembree – $1,653.60 David Ralston – $1,330.02 Barry Loudermilk – $596.57 Tommy Smith – [...]Snellville has approved sale of alcohol by the drink on Sunday:The Snellville City Council on Monday night amended its liquor laws to allow restaurants to serve alcohol on Sundays.
The decision, by a 4-2 vote, also extends the hours licensed establishments can sell liquor, wine or beer from midnight to [...]
State Representative Bill Hembree has written the members of the majority caucus to solicit their votes for his candidacy for Speaker of the Georgia House.
His correspondence contains general goals and concepts rather than specific positions on issues, but does inject a more moralistic meme into [...]
11 Alive put out this report on the House Republican Caucus meeting that took place yesterday at Georgia Tech, which was closed off to the media (only 22 out of 105 members voted to keep the meeting open). They got some comments from State Rep. Bobby Franklin (R-Marietta), [...]
From the AJC’s Aaron Gould Sheinin:
Update 1:23 p.m.: The House caucus confab has broken up and members made for the door fairly quickly. The headlines: The caucus will meet next Thursday to vote for their choice of speaker and speaker pro tem and will elect majority whip.
The choices for [...]
