By a voice vote yesterday, the House approved Rep. Anthony Weiner's request for a two-week absence for "personal matters." As long as he's off-the-clock at an undisclosed location, taxpayers shouldn't foot the bill for the New York Democrat who is supposedly coming to grips with his odd obsession with sending obscene photographs of himself to women. Rep. Mike Capuano, Massachusetts Democrat, sponsored the motion offering Mr. Weiner some time off, and nobody objected. Members of Congress routinely ask for a floor vote on an absence so that it is included in the Congressional Record, giving constituents an explanation why their representative skipped a vote. These votes on absences aren't controversial and are done by unanimous consent typically at the request of party leaders. In this ca...
That is perhaps the greatest problem with political solutions: they are, well, political. Violations of law are sold with good intentions and favors are doled out based on influence. No doubt this is why the number of lobbyists in Washington has more than doubled since the year 2000. These junkies for our dollars are even now meeting with congressmen behind closed doors attempting to convince them that they too are in need of a "fix." It may also be the reason Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic counterparts in Congress have attempted to redirect a portion of the more than $1.5 trillion in taxpayer money otherwise known as the bailout to automobile makers. The Wall Street Journal reports: "This was attempted with several hilarious "colloquy's"-pre-scripted dialogues between members who were...
... who were quietly inserted into the Congressional Record after the vote, all aimed at rewriting the ...
With all the competing messages and endorsements zipping from candidates to voters this fall, there's one thing that cuts through all the noise: the bacon. As in, bringin' it home. A Pew Research/National Journal poll released Monday found that 53 percent of Americans said they were more likely to vote for a congressional candidate who had a record of directing spending to their districts. And only 12 percent said they would be less likely to vote for a congressional candidate that didn't secure earmarked funds for his or her district.
The House and Senate Thursday each passed their versions of the 2010 budget that omitted some of President Obama's key priorities on energy and taxes, while pushing off big decisions about health care reform for a later day. The record $3.6 trillion budget plan that passed in the House by a 233-196 vote gives congressional Democrats the option to use a parliamentary short cut to push through Mr. Obama's top policy goals and avoid a filibuster by Senate Republicans. The Senate budget version, which passed 55-43, does not include the fast-track procedure known as "reconciliation.
... seats previously allotted the Texas congressional delegation. Although the Democratic Party then con... Party had received 47% of the 1990 statewide vote, while the Democrats had received only 51%. Faced ... obligation to act is reinforced by the record in this very case. The District Court unambiguousl...
A brawl over presidential pardons punctured the normally courtly ambiance of the Senate on Thursday night, but Republicans and Democrats agreed to bury the hatchet and erase the evidence before the sun rose Friday. In the heat of a partisan spat, Democrats forced a vote on a nonbinding measure to instruct President Bush not to pardon former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. But there's no record of the 47-49 vote in the daily record of congressional proceedings - or anywhere else.
WASHINGTON -- David Fierst, who's running in the Democratic primary for the 3rd Congressional District, on Monday defended his voting record which includes a vote for Sen. John McCain in the 2000 Republican presidential primary. Fierst also said he doesn't recall ever voting in a Democratic primary, nor another Republican primary.
Their high-profile "sacrifice' effort failed, but outspoken voters who turned on Rep. David Dreier over the issue of illegal immigration shrunk the Republican's margin of victory on Tuesday to the narrowest it has been in 24 years. After radio personalities and their listeners spent weeks attacking his record, Dreier received a smaller percentage of the vote than any Congressional incumbent in the state, and took in the smallest percentage of his district's vote since first claiming the seat from an incumbent Democrat in 1980.
A record number of unaffiliated voters likely became Republicans Tuesday to vote in the congressional primary, but not as many as some candidates would have liked. A total of 1,820 El Paso County voters showed up at polls on primary day and declared a new-found GOP status to cast a ballot in the six-way U.S. House contest or one of two state House primaries. Another 295 became Democrats on Tuesday, despite there being no Democratic primaries in which they could vote.
WASHINGTON, July 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A record number of people for a nonpresidential election, 128 million, registered to vote in the 2002 congressional elections. Another record number, 89 million, reported they voted in the elections, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. About 123 million people were registered to vote in 1998, the previous all-time high. The previous record turnout was 86 million in 1994. Reported turnout by registered voters was 69 percent in 2002, higher than the 68 percent who cast ballots in 1998.
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