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FEC, a Work in Progress

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

The FEC STILL has only 2 commissioners. With a max of six needed by law, the 2 commissioners cannot meet the quorum requirement to rule on ethics, finance questions, or if a campaign has broken the law with faulty practice. The Senate is in charge of approving the commissioners, which so far, has seemed […]

Did you know…

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

This Congress has now gone farther past the original deadline to pass the 12 appropriations bills (Oct. 1st) without a single one having been sent to the president than any Congress in the last 20 years.
Pretty cool, huh?
As it turns out, Democrats are doing a better job not spending our money than Republicans did when […]

Congressional approval ratings unchanged, remain miserable

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

According to the latest Gallup poll, just 23% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing (or not doing, as is the case with the “do-nothing” Democratic 110th Congress).
Gallup writes:
Congressional job approval is essentially the same as it was last month but slightly higher than the 18% reading in August, which matched a […]

Quote of the Day: Admitting Failure

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

We can’t break a filibuster. We spent a lot of time on it. We just didn’t succeed.
- Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) on legislative attempts spearheaded by Senate Democrats in coordination with House Democrats to withdraw troops from Iraq.