Senator Robert Menendez was warning about the possibility of an offshore drilling blowout in the Gulf of Mexico half a year ago. Unlike his Senate colleagues, who pushed to loosen regulation of offshore drilling, Senator Menendez had the foresight to urge restraint.
The certain knowledge that Senator Byron Dorgan, and other defenders of the oil industry, pretended to have before the Deepwater Horizon crisis began was an illusion. If, even after a month and a half of an uncontrolled oil spill, no one knows how to stop the spill or to contain its impact, it is irresponsible to continue with plans to expand offshore drilling.
136 Democrats voted to cut funding for the F-35′s superfluous second engine. 115 Democrats voted to keep the funding in place.
A list of the Republicans and Democrats who crossed party lines on this week’s vote on an amendment that would repeal the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell military policy of discrimination against homosexual soldiers.
If Dennis Kucinich has time to work on renaming a post office, who doesn’t he have time to cosponsor legislation to end offshore drilling?
Committee Chair Bart Gordon has allowed the Federal Oil Spill Research Program Act to languish in his committee for almost an entire year now.
Roy Blunt’s bill retains an upper limit past which an oil company doesn’t have to pay for damages related to oil spills. Past that limit, the American people pick up the tab, protecting oil companies from further loss of profit.
Accidents happen? Is that what Rand Paul would say face-to-face to the families of the eleven oil rig workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion?
Charles Djou may say that he supports “strong families and a diverse community”, but in practice, Djou only supports those families that follow his narrow beliefs. Djou seeks to ban legal recognition of other families.
The War Is Making You Poor Act would forbid that additional spending, and require the U.S. government to direct 90 percent of that money to pay for the federal tax on the first $35,000 of every American’s income. Even after this astounding reduction in federal income tax, 16 billion dollars in savings would be left over.
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