Senate overrides Bush’s Farm Bill veto
May 22, 2008
Passage all but assures $307 billion, five-year bill will be law.
Two Sick Stories. Maddening & Saddening.
May 22, 2008
Sometimes you read stuff that makes you sad, then you read things that make you mad. Here are two topics that combine those emotions.
Domestic Spying
Hamilton Jordan: Reflections on politics
May 22, 2008
Jordan, who died Tuesday, masterminded Jimmy Carter’s improbable rise to the presidency in 1976.
House Judiciary subpoenas Karl Rove
May 22, 2008
Rove’s lawyer informs Rep. Conyers that Rove will not testify voluntarily before the committee.
USTR, senators clash over stronger trade tools
May 22, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill to strengthen U.S. tools to enforce trade agreements is unnecessary and could invite retaliation against U.S. farm exports to China, a top U.S. trade official said on Thursday.
McCain criticizes Obama’s lack of military service
May 22, 2008
UNION CITY, California (Reuters) – Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain opened a new line of attack against Democratic front-runner Barack Obama on Thursday, taking aim at Obama’s lack of military service.
House Panel Subpoenas Rove
May 22, 2008
Former White House adviser Karl Rove was subpoenaed as part of an inquiry into whether the Bush administration politically meddled at the Justice Department.
Rove subpoenaed to testify in Congress probe
May 22, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Karl Rove, who had been one of President George W. Bush’s top aides, was subpoenaed on Thursday to testify before a congressional panel investigating the administration’s firing of nine federal prosecutors.
Senate approves $165 billion in new war money
May 22, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate on Thursday approved an additional $165 billion to wage war in Iraq and Afghanistan for another year after lawmakers blocked proposed timetables for withdrawing American troops from Iraq.