Monthly Archives: March 2009
It’s Budget Time!
Senators will spend all of this week debating and voting upon amendments to the budget resolution (S.Con.Res. 13). It’s always a lengthy process because of the unusual rules that govern the resolution. Members will start off with up to 50 … Continue reading
Filed under Budget
Senate Leaders React to Obama Automaker Assistance Proposal
President Obama “announced what amounts to a do-or-die ultimatum for the struggling automobile industry on Monday, laying out strict standards that the carmakers must meet to get more government aid and declaring that the industry must survive because it is … Continue reading
Filed under In the News, White House
Kerry Cautions on Troop Deployment to Mexico Border
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) “cautioned Monday against deployments of national guard troops to the US border with Mexico, saying such a move would be ‘premature and possibly counter-productive,’” the AFP reports. In remarks prepared for a … Continue reading
Filed under International Relations
Momentum Builds in Congress to Lift Cuba Travel Ban
Roughly a year after “Fidel Castro stepped aside and handed much of the responsibility for leading Cuba to his brother Raúl, there is new momentum in Washington for eliminating the ban on most U.S. travel to the island nation and … Continue reading
Filed under International Relations
On the Minnesota Recount, Cornyn Acknowledges Federal Challenges Could Take Years
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is “threatening ‘World War III’ if Democrats try to seat Al Franken in the Senate before Norm Coleman can pursue his case through the federal courts,” Politico reports. Cornyn, … Continue reading
Filed under Election
Congress in Your Pocket
