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- Sen. Tim Johnson appears in public for first time since almost dying
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Jazz-from-hell.blogspot
  Video: Democrats breathed a sigh of relief as Sen. Johnson (D-SD), who suffered bleeding on the brain in December of last year that nearly killed him, made his first public appearance today to mark another milestone in a long and remarkable road to recovery...
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- Report details Craig's disorderly conduct
  Posted by Jeff from Politicalticker.blogs.cnn
  Sounds like another closeted GOP member caught red umm... handed? In the report, the arresting officer alleges that Craig lingered outside a restroom stall where the officer was sitting, then entered the stall next door and blocked the stall door with his luggage.
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- Bush administration fights Dem plan to boost school aid for veterans
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  The Bush administration opposes a Democratic effort to restore full educational benefits for returning veterans, according to an official's comments...
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- Democrats' "censure" plan--another cynical diversion of fight against war and reaction
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  The obvious question is: Given ample constitutional grounds together with this mass popular support for bringing impeachment proceedings against the president and vice-president, why is Feingold, supposedly among the most liberal Democrats in the US Senate, pushing for only a motion of censure, a measure that would have no legal implications and would do nothing to stop the administration from continuing its criminal actions?
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- US Senate unanimously passes threatening measure against Iran
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  A little publicised amendment to the defence spending bill denouncing Iran for the “murder” of US soldiers in Iraq was proposed by Independent Democrat Joseph Lieberman and passed unanimously in the US Senate on Wednesday.
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- Senate Defeats Provision To Require Army Corps To Consider Climate Change
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  The Senate, after one of its first full debates on global warming, on Tuesday defeated a proposal requiring the Army Corps of Engineers to consider the impact of climate change in designing water resources projects.
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- US Senate postpones vote on immigration drive
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  The US Senate postponed a crunch vote on a reform drive to deal with 12 million illegal immigrants, a legacy-building issue for President George W. Bush, a top senator's spokesman said on Tuesday...
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brendajo313 comments on:
Democrats May Kick Out Joe Lieberman If He Addresses The Republican National Convention

Addressing the Republican convention would be in the true spirit of "reaching across the aisle"... republicans have been doing it for years and it would be a welcome change.

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5:57 am 7/14/08
Jon comments on:
Democrats May Kick Out Joe Lieberman If He Addresses The Republican National Convention

About time. After the ‘08 elections, we won’t need Joe anymore. If the Republicans can stand him, they can have him.

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11:49 pm 7/13/08
Jeff comments on:
Democrats' "censure" plan--another cynical diversion of fight against war and reaction

I agree . I think censure will just take away the impeachment option in the mind of the public. Lame Feingold.

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10:15 am 7/24/07
Jeff comments on:
Senate to Investigate Walter Reed Scandal

From everything I’ve read the past few years, the problem isn’t just Walter Reed…the entire VA system is underfunded.

When gates says he wants to get to the bottom of this, he must be joking. The problem is the overextension of the U.S. military and the underfunding of veterans affairs by Congress.

It would help if Bush would put forward an honest budget with true accounting for the costs of the Iraq war.

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11:54 am 2/27/07
Kathy comments on:
Senate to Investigate Walter Reed Scandal

TPMmuckraker has the details on the investigation and a summary of Pentagon response (divided) to the story.

If you missed it – ya need to read it. Very sad. Thousands of soliders waiting for disability rulings. One story is especially painful—how our gov’t went out of its way to say IT wasn’t responsible for the soldier’s disability. Too bad he couldn’t have that decision made by a jury of his peers.

I read another report that says the wounded-killed ratio in this war is the highest ever—10-to-1. Vietnam, reportedly 3-to-1. That means a lot of folks are gonna have lifelong care—and our system isn’t set up to handle it. :-/

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1:34 am 2/27/07
Jon comments on:
Senate gridlocks on Iraq war resolution

Really sad to see that the “world’s greatest deliberative body” can’t manage to deliberate the world’s most important issue.

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1:50 pm 2/17/07