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Dec 22 03:08 PM US/Eastern

The US Senate on Wednesday ratified a landmark nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, handing President Barack Obama a signal diplomatic and political victory after a months-long battle. Lawmakers voted 71-26 in favor of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), easily clearing the two-thirds majority needed to approve the pact, which Obama had made a lynchpin of efforts to "reset" relations with Moscow.

After a relentl...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans have blocked legislation allowing taxes to rise on upper income taxpayers on Jan. 1. The vote Saturday was 53-36—seven short of the 60 needed to advance the measure.

Without action by Congress, all income tax cuts enacted when George W. Bush was president will expire at year's end. The legislation backed by Senate Democrats would have kept the cuts in effect except on incomes over $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 f...

"We will not agree to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to any legislative item," their letter to Reid says. By Dan Friedman

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 | 9:53 a.m

Updated at 11:10 a.m. on December 1.

All 42 Senate Republicans have signed a letter refusing to vote for cloture on any bill before the Senate until the federal government i...

By PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Posted 11/30/2010 07:09 PM ET

Republicans are assuming that cap-and-trade (aka cap-and-tax) is dead because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lacks the votes to bring up the House-passed bill and because this issue proved a loser in the 2010 House races. Like the famous Mark Twain saying, its death may be exaggerated.

The Senate's environmentalism expert, Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., warns us that the Obama administration is trying to imple...

By Jeremy Pelofsky

WASHINGTON | Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:01pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the landmark healthcare law championed by President Barack Obama, upholding key provisions that require health insurance coverage.

The challenge, one of several attempting to strike down the law, was brought by the conservative Christian Liberty...

From Breitbart:

HLF President Mario H. Lopez available for interviews as FCC weighs next move on broadband policy

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Hispanic Leadership Fund, a national non-partisan advocacy organization that promotes limited government and free enterprise, today reiterated its opposition to the FCC's planne...

By J. Taylor Rushing - 11/30/10 09:52 AM ET

The Senate on Tuesday morning defeated a proposal from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to ban congressional earmarks.

In a 39-56 vote, members defeated a temporary ban on the appropriations procedure. The moratorium was offered as an amendment to a food-safety bill that is scheduled for a final vote Tuesday morning.

Senate Republicans have already passed a vo...

Democratic District 6 Congressional candidate Brett Carter is asking House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to step aside for the good of Democratic candidates.

Carter, in an announcement made in Nashville on Thursday morning, said he sent a letter to Pelosi requesting her to step aside.If elected, Carter said he would not cast his vote for Nancy Pelosi to be speaker.

It is this first vote that Carter said many of the public is focused on, rather than his qualif...

By: Mark Tapscott

Editorial Page Editor

08/23/10 11:32 AM EDT

Read more at the Washington Examiner:

Expect to hear a lot about how much the Iraq war cost in the days ahead from Democrats worried about voter ...

The bill that modifies the Communications Act of 1934 is out of committee and proceeds to the floor.

Details of the bill can be found here.

Senators Challenge Pres. Obama on Rumors of Executive Order Amnesty

Monday, June 21, 2010, 4:58 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA

Several Senators have learned of a possible plan by the Obama Administration that would provide a mass Amnesty for the nation's 11-18 million illegal aliens. Led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), eigh...

By BOB LEWIS

AP Political Writer

May 24, 2010 - 8:37pm

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - President Barack Obama's administration on Monday asked a federal judge in Virginia to dismiss the state's lawsuit alleging Congress overstepped its constitutional bounds with the new health care reform law.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius argued in a motion filed hours before a midnight deadline that the law is well within the scope ...

Plan B for Climate Change

With Senate bipartisan talks on climate change in flux, it may seem like Congress won’t be able to get an environment bill done before midterm elections. But there are other ways lawmakers could go.

Last week, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened to walk away from a bipartisan climate bill he negotiated with colleagues Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) days before it was to be unveiled.

It looks like Reid is waffling again.  Maybe Graham has gotten the message though.

From an article at The Hill:

Reid set to move on climate change bill first

By Alexander Bolton - 04/28/10 03:10 PM ET

Senate Ma...

It seems that the withdrawal of Graham's support may postpone the legislation until after the mid-term elections.  After writing countless letters in oppostion to various propsed legislations, it's good to know that our tireless efforts sometime acheive the desired results.

From an article on Politico:

Climate bill not likely to come up this year

B...

The lies are continuing to be told, ignoring the discrediting of the IPCC reports with all the manufactured data and inaccurate measurements.  This is nothing more than an attempt for the libs to save the investment they have made in worthless carbon credits. I'd like to know how much PBO has invested in the Chicago Climate Exchange and how much Gore would stand to lose if this legislation is not passed.  I would also like to know how heavily invested the government union pensions a...

You'll notice that I've placed this in the corruption and malfeasance category.  Nearly everything congress is doing these days can be considered as such.  We need to slam all the cosponsors on this legislation, informing them that we are aware of the massive fraud (more to come on that) that has been perpetuated from all those involved in the IPCC and even at NASA.  SInce the globe has actually been cooling for 11 years now, there is no need to consider this economy killing le...

by Liam Julian

After a $787 billion stimulus and a $940 billion health care bill, one might think the time had come to take a vacation from profligate spending on vaporous ideas. Unfortunately, one would be wrong.

High-speed rail construction—for which President Obama initially devoted an $8 billion “down payment” (read: more on the way) from the stimulus, plus an additional $5 billion over five years—has begun in several scattered c...

Two tactics on climate change

Some prefer to lobby as others build a grassroots base.

By Ambreen Ali

Two environmental camps are taking starkly different strategies on climate change as lawmakers turn their attention to what could be the next big legislative fight.

Some activists are lobbying lawmakers to pass something this year, even if it's a bil...

In the aftermath of a year's fight on health care, we can expect further dissent on this issue.  Consider the following:

"A flood of lawsuits from states seeking to block the health care law President Obama signed this week raises sharp questions about the power of the federal government to impose mandates on its citizens, but legal scholars disagree about how the cases will be decided if they are heard by the Supreme Court." -