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If Senators want to talk it to death, they should have to open their mouths [Commentary]
Lately I've been fascinated, like many other folks who pay attention to national politics, by the wranglings in the U.S. Senate relating to blocking legislation via something called a filibuster. My trusty Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, which started out...Tags: Elections, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Civil Rights
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Rand Paul's filibuster worked
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul got a lot of attention Wednesday for mounting an honest-to-God filibuster of President Barack Obama's nominee for CIA director, John Brennan. The nation's political class marveled at his real-life Mr. Smith act, the funny stuff his...
Tags: Elections, U.S. Department of Defense, Ron Paul, Wiz Khalifa, Anwar al-Awlaki
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A new twist to an intriguing family history
Sun ReportersMany people know that Democratic presidential candidate 's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now: It appears that forebears of his white mother owned...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Political Systems, Slavery, John Edwards, Family
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Body language can translate into tale that's not intended
Sun StaffRafael Palmeiro sent up an unmistakable red flag about steroid use on March 17, at least in the mind of John Boe, a California body-language expert. That's when the Orioles first baseman testified before a congressional committee and denied ever using...Tags: Baseball, University of California, Murder, U.S. Department of State, Pete Rose
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Senate vote on war resolution delayed by voice of Byrd
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate ground to a halt yesterday as one West Virginia Democrat, his hands trembling and his voice raised, refused to yield the floor. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the 84-year-old master of Senate rules and procedures and fierce protector...Tags: Executive Branch, George W. Bush, National Security, Government, History
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CBS News appoints 2 to conduct outside review of report on Bush
Sun StaffCBS News appointed a former U.S. attorney general and a retired chief executive of the Associated Press yesterday to investigate how a botched story about President Bush's military record was researched and approved for broadcast. Network executives...Tags: Lawyers, George H.W. Bush, John Kerry, Management Change, Executive Branch
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Solemn vote ends 'year of agony'
Sun ReporterSuspenseful it was not. And yet, when Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist called for the verdict in President Clinton's impeachment trial, he suddenly placed the weight of history on 100 sets of shoulders in the hushed Senate chamber. "Senators, how say...Tags: Ted Stevens, Arlen Specter, Henry J Hyde, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Trials
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Ehrlich, Steele have some explaining to do
ROBERT EHRLICH and Michael Steele aim to be Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for the working-class set. Riding across the state's political prairie, they wish to be perceived as products of their humble origins trying to swipe an election from the...Tags: Political Campaigns, Spiro Agnew, Executive Branch, George W. Bush, Government
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Plain talk from GOP senator
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON -- Twenty years ago, a young military lawyer defending an Air Force pilot on a drug charge landed himself on 60 Minutes, exposing widespread flaws in the Air Force drug-testing system that led to an overhaul of the program. Today, the same...Tags: Interior Policy, Steve Buyer, George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Government
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Joe Biden: Vice president of the nation, but king of the eulogy
WASHINGTON – Say what you will about Vice President Joe Biden – the man can deliver a eulogy. Just ask him. “I’ve spoken at more eulogies than I’d like to remember,” he said Wednesday at a service for Frank R....Tags: Elections, Daniel Inouye, Democratic Party, C-SPAN (tv network), Amtrak
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Great moments in homina homina homina!
Change of SubjectAttorney Charles J. Cooper offers a lame, confused response in the Supreme Court today to the question of, if procreation is to integral to marriage, why do we let prisoners and the elderly marry? JUSTICE BREYER: What precisely is the...... -
Same-sex marriage can't be stopped by courts
WASHINGTON -- To see the future of gay marriage, you didn't have to set foot in the Supreme Court chamber Tuesday morning as the justices took up the first of two landmark cases on the issue. You needed only to stand in the plaza in front of the court...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Marriage, John G. Roberts, Jr., George W. Bush, Minority Groups
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