Democrats may have the majority of seats in the Senate, but the Republicans still appear to have the control. The Democratic-Republican distinction appears not to have anything near the meaning as the progressive-regressive split, and the progressives are clearly in the minority.
Last week, ten Senators introduced legislation that would begin to undo the damage to constitutional liberty inflicted by the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. S. 1686, given the acronym of the JUSTICE Act, is a long bill; the following is a summary of its most central provisions: Revisions [...]
Dorgan is from North Dakota. Bingaman is from New Mexico. They don’t have anything to fear from an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s easy for them, in their landlocked states, to say that coastal states shouldn’t worry about oil slicks resulting from drilling accidents or hurricanes surging up from the Caribbean Sea.
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