Author: BooMan

On Reporting Committee Votes

From experience, I know that it is hard to get a record of how congresspeople and senators vote in committee. The House and Senate have web sites that record votes on the floor (excepting voice votes), but there is generally...

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Remember Camaraderie and Decorum?

They finally got cloture on the Agriculture appropriations bill. The usual suspects voted against it. No one much cares. The only reason I even mention it is because the cloture vote was preceded by votes on 14 amendments over...

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Please Support Booman Tribune

Dear Readers: Since I started this blog in early 2005, I have had one overriding focus. The GOP is the problem. The GOP was ruining our country on every level, and things have gotten progressively worse at every point along the...

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Another Promise Kept

I don’t know why the administration decided to announce the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq on a Friday when hardly anyone will notice, but I am very pleased at the news. Not so, Lindsey Graham. I guess some...

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Give a Little Credit

Some people are just ungracious: Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi should have been killed in the early summer, former United Nations spokesman John Bolton said in the wake of his death on Thursday. The Mad Dog of the Desert, as...

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