The confirmation to seat Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court of the United States finally came this week. It was not a party line vote. Four Republicans crossed the aisle to vote in favor of Kagan: Richard Lugar, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe. One Democrat voted with the majority of Republicans, against his [...]
With just the three lobbyists who hosted Patty Murray’s fundraiser, the lobbying firm Avenue Solutions gave $15,000 to Senator Murray’s re-election campaign. Furthermore, the breakfast was actually held at Avenue Solution’s offices, creating an additional in-kind contribution.
39 members of the United States Senate chose to stand with Lisa Murkowski, in opposition to responsible efforts to slow climate change. These senators, chose to align themselves with the short-term corporate profits on the very day when NASA’s Goddard Institute reported that the last decade has been the warmest on record.
Over the last couple of weeks, a huge number of exemptions from duties have been proposed, sometimes for things that the ordinary person can identify, such as ski poles and snow globes. Often, however, the requested exemptions are for extremely obscure chemicals and materials.
Many Democratic senators supported Sunstein even though progressives have expressed concern about Sunstein’s sort of approach to regulation for years.
The following are the United States Senators who voted for this betrayal of the Constitution. 20 of these 69 senators are Democrats. Without the Democrats helping out, the Republicans couldn’t have gotten the FISA Amendments Act passed. Which ones are the Republicans, and which ones are the Democrats? You figure it out. I can’t tell the difference.
The following four Democratic senators joined George W. Bush and the Senate Republicans to support the push for uncontrollable electronic spying against you by the government: Mary Landrieu, Mark Pryor, Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln. These four Democrats deserve to be turned out of office in shame by activists of their own party. They all have a disgraceful history of voting for right wing Republican interests, and against Democratic values over and over again.
