President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats have run out of time and tools to generate growth as a historic government intervention to rescue the economy runs up against the limits of the November.
So the contest with Republicans for control of the U.S. Congress has reverted to arguments that have traditionally defined the parties.
President Obama made a statement today on the White House South Lawn blasting Senate Republicans for obstructing aid to small businesses.
Obama said, "When Congress reconvenes, this jobs bill will be the first business out of the gate. And the Senate Republican leadership needs to stop its efforts to block it."
In April 1866, the Congress passed a Civil Rights Act declaring that people born in the United States were to be considered citizens.
The bill was designed to extend citizenship protections to freed slaves. President Andrew Johnson promptly vetoed the law � only to have the Radical Republicans in Congress override him in one of the first great show
In a report to Congress, Ben S.
Bernanke said that it would take significant time to restore the 8.5 million jobs lost in 2008 and 2009.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/business/22fed.html
A Tuolumne County man opened fire on two CHP officers who pulled him over on WB I-580 near Grand Ave. a few minutes before midnight.
He continued shooting for several minutes with a high powered rifle before 10 officers returned fire and seriously wounded him, despite his body armor. His mother says that he was upset by the "left-wing Congress"
Source:
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/shootout-oakland-may-have-been-result-pent
President Barack Obama's chief of staff is warning about what might happen if Republicans -- who have defended BP over the Gulf oil spill -- were to run Congress after the fall election.
Rahm Emanuel says the GOP philosophy is to paint BP as the victim, pointing to Rep. Joe Barton's apology to BP for what the congressman called a shakedown.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/20/rahm-emanuel-joe-barton-bp-apology_n_618646.html
The Gulf oil spill caused by BP / Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig is massive.
Here's how to help, volunteer, write to Congress or otherwise take action about the serious offshore oil spill.
Source:
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/gulf-oil-spill-2010-0503
Good news for fans of Allen West, the fiery Republican congressional candidate running in Florida.
Source:
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/13131/allen-west-narrowly-leading-his-race-congress
This is the Republican playbook for the 2010 midterm elections.
It is virtually identical to the one they used in 1994 to retake Congress and hamstring a reformer president.
Source:
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/02/20/the-2010-republican-playbook/
Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank says Indiana Sen.
Evan Bayh is right that Capitol Hill's partisanship is getting out of control. But Frank says his fellow Democrat could do more to change that by staying in Congress and helping change the filibuster rule than by stepping out of public service.
Source:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DTEVVO2&show_article=1
Because Congress may do what it does best -- postpone a tough decision until next year.
