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Bernie Sanders Tax Cut
Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont indicated Monday that he may seek to filibuster the new deal struck between President Barack Obama and Republicans over keeping the Bush tax cuts in place for the wealthiest Americans in exchange for a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits for those Americans out of work for longer than [...]
Dream Act Controversial Immigration Bill
Dream Act Controversial Immigration Bill Senate Delays Votes on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and DREAM Act With time running out on the lame-duck session of Congress, the Senate Wednesday postponed a vote on the controversial immigration bill known as the DREAM Act and didn’t take up the Defense Authorization bill, which includes an amendment aimed [...]
Rosa Parks The First Lady of Civil Rights
Rosa Parks The First Lady of Civil Rights:Remembering Rosa Parks – 55 years later It was December 1st, 1955. A tired Rosa Parks took her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, heading home after a long day’s work as a seamstress. She sat in the front seat of the “black” section of the bus, like [...]
Tom DeLay Guilty in Money Laundering
A Texas jury on Wednesday found former U. S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay guilty of money laundering in connection with the 2002 elections. Tom DeLay faces a possible sentence of five to 99 years in prison and a maximum $10,000 fine on the money-laundering charge, and two to 20 years and a possible $10,000 [...]
Barbara Boxer
Third-term incumbent Barbara Boxer won the California Senate race on Tuesday, helping Democrats maintain their majority in the U.S. Senate. Boxing out · Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer won the race against Republican candidate Carly Fiorina to secure her fourth term in office. – Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Times “From the time I was [...]
Alaska Senate Race
The Alaska Senate race was headed for another nailbiter in the rematch between write-in candidate Sen. Lisa Murkowski and tea party favorite Joe Miller as supporters from both sides prepared Wednesday for a potentially prolonged ballot count. Write-in ballots held the lead in the hotly contested three-person race late Tuesday, a potentially good sign for [...]
Prop 19 Results
California projected election results indicate Jerry Brown recaptured the governor’s mansion, Barbara Boxer retained her Senate seat and Proposition 19 went up in smoke. Democrat wins in California races buck Republican trends elsewhere in the nation. In one of the most closely contested statewide races in recent memory, not to mention one full of nasty [...]
Candidates for 2010 Election Elections Rout
WASHINGTON: It appears that voters have decided to reject US President Barack Obama’s Democrat party. A last-minute poll showed that Republicans are on their way for big gains in Congress. Most of the voters expressed their anger at the government for failing to revive the sick economy hit hard by recession. It was two years [...]