Month: October 2007

I wrote a diary earlier today called What is Dodd Doing?, where I laid out some of the procedural rules related to Sen. Dodd’s decision to put a ‘hold’ on any FISA bill that includes retroactive immunity for...

Weekly Voting Rights News Update By Erin Ferns Confirmation hearings for President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, brought promises by the nominee to “block political meddling at the Justice...

The US Census Bureau released data this week on the millions of Americans who moved between 2005 and 2006. The Census tables highlight demographic characteristics, including sex, race and ethnicity, income, educational...

Why did Ron Paul, a libertarian Republican with a past history of associating with white supremacist groups, have to be the one to propose the obvious: HR 3835. SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the `American...

C-SPAN is entertaining us today with a live broadcast of the Family Research Leadership Council convention under the guise of “Campaign 2008”, so, of course, I started watching it, being concerned with the next...