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July 2008
- Virginia Is Not for Gilmore Lovers
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 24, 08 12:28 PM CDT
  
  Jim Gilmore may be a former governor, RNC chair, and presidential candidate running for Senate in a historically red state, but the Virginian has become Campaign 2008’s “laughingstock,” Politico reports. Virginia is regularly ranked first among Senate seats likely to flip this November, as Gilmore trails hugely popular ex-guv Mark Warner by more than 20 points—and about $5 million in the war chest. More »
  
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  Senate • campaign fundraising • Karl Rove • Virginia • RNC • Mark Warner
- How McCain Became a Senate Power
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 21, 08 9:00 AM CDT
  
  Prior to his 2000 bid for the White House, John McCain spent more time mocking his fellow senators than compromising with them. But after his defeat, the Arizona legislator returned to the Senate with a softened demeanor and got down to the business of legislation. The New York Times looks at how McCain cuts deals with everyone from Democrats to his sworn enemies in his own party, and has become the Senate's most powerful member. More »
  
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  John McCain • Senate • Election 2000 • Dick Durbin • compromise • triangulation
- Journo 'Ecstatic' Over Demise of HIV Travel Ban
  
  newser | Daily Dish (The Atlantic) | Jul 17, 08 3:29 PM CDT
  
  HIV-positive journalist Andrew Sullivan is “ecstatic” over yesterday's passage by the Senate of a bill that would lift a US ban on visitors and immigrants with the virus that causes AIDS, he writes in his Atlantic blog. "I'm not exaggerating when I say that it's one of the happiest days of my whole life," writes the openly gay, British Sullivan, who plans to pursue citizenship. More »
  
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  Senate • immigration • gay rights • citizenship • Andrew Sullivan
- UBS: No More Swiss Cheese for US Clients
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 17, 08 3:08 PM CDT
  
  A UBS executive told a Senate probe today the bank will no longer host accounts for US clients, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Swiss bank is under investigation by the IRS for marketing tax-evasion strategies involving its offshore accounts to wealthy Americans. The Senate panel estimates that the US loses about $100 billion annually due to offshore tax evasion. More »
  
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  Senate • taxes • UBS • IRS • tax evasion • Swiss bank • savings account
- Senate Targets Ban on HIV- Positive Visitors
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 16, 08 4:31 PM CDT
  
  The Senate moved today to repeal a ban on allowing immigrants and vistors who are HIV-positive to enter the country, the AP reports. The measure was part of a $50 billion bill to combat AIDS worldwide. The US is one of only a dozen countries—including Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Libya—that forbids the entry of visitors with AIDS. More »
  
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  Senate • immigration • Africa • John Kerry • AIDS • HIV • Gordon Smith • visas
- House, Senate Override Bush Veto on Medicare
  
  newser | CNN | Jul 15, 08 5:56 PM CDT
  
  Congress today overrode President Bush's veto of legislation on Medicare, ensuring that payments to doctors won't be cut by nearly 11%, CNN reports. The House voted 383-41, and the Senate followed 70-26 to override the president for only the fourth time during his presidency. Bush says the legislation doesn't address the program's fundamental problems, but lawmakers feared doctors would stop providing services if their payments were cut. More »
  
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  Senate • House of Representatives • Medicare • presidential veto • veto override
- Lieberman a Sore Subject With Dems
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 14, 08 5:59 AM CDT
  
  Joe Lieberman, long at odds with his party over his outspoken support for the war in Iraq, has become so estranged from his Democratic colleagues since he began campaigning for John McCain that the New York Times wonders if the strained relationship is heading for a divorce. While, for example, he still attends Democratic weekly lunches, he left the room at a recent one when the presidential election came up. “It was the right thing to do,” said a colleague. More »
  
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  John McCain • Congress • Senate • Joseph Lieberman • independent • Democratic Senators
- Senate OKs Foreclosure Relief Bill
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 11, 08 8:35 PM CDT
  
  By a huge margin, the Senate today passed a $300 billion bill to help homeowners avoid foreclosure—but the White House vows to veto it unless the House makes changes, the AP reports. The bill will let struggling homeowners reinsure at cheaper rates backed by the government, but President President Bush says that nearly $4 billion in the bill, slated to fix up foreclosed homes, benefits lenders, not owners. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Senate • House of Representatives • mortgage crisis • Federal Housing Administration • Bush veto
- Kennedy Returns to Senate
  
  newser | CNN | Jul 9, 08 4:01 PM CDT
  
  Edward Kennedy returned to the Senate today for the first time since his surgery for brain cancer to cast a vote on Medicare legislation, CNN reports. Fellow senators greeted him with a long standing ovation. Kennedy, 76, made a thumbs-up gesture after casting his vote with a loud "aye." His vote helped Democrats break a GOP filibuster and overturn a 10% cut in Medicare payments to doctors. More »
  
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  Senate • Ted Kennedy • Medicare • brain cancer
- Senate passes FISA, 69-28
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 9, 08 2:50 PM CDT
  
  The Senate approved a bill today overhauling the rules on secret US government eavesdropping and granting immunity to telephone companies that helped it listen in after 9/11. The so-called FISA bill passed by a large margin of 69-28. The upper house also voted against three amendments that would have watered down, delayed, or stripped away the immunity provision. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Senate • warrantless wiretapping • FISA • domestic surveillance • telecom immunity
- Dems Ready to Slap McCain on Medicare Bill
  
  newser | The Hill | Jul 9, 08 12:37 PM CDT
  
  Democrats are preparing to attack John McCain for hurting doctors, the elderly, and veterans—all by not showing up, The Hill reports. Medicare legislation to stave off a 10.6% cut in physician payments is one vote short in the Senate, and the presumptive GOP nominee, repeatedly absent when it has come to the floor, will be MIA again today. Any of 39 Republicans standing against the measure could help McCain dodge a bullet by switching sides. More »
  
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  John McCain • Senate • elderly • Medicare • physician • American Medical Association
- Lefties Deliver 'Joe Must Go' Petition to Dems
  
  newser | The Swamp | Jul 9, 08 11:21 AM CDT
  
  Online activists are bringing a petition with 43,000 signatures to Democratic senators today, demanding Joe Lieberman be stripped of key committee roles. The group states, “We CANNOT tolerate a leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus who supports George Bush and McCain's War in Iraq … and endorses and stumps for McCain,” the Chicago Tribune reports. More »
  
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  Iraq • John McCain • Senate • Joe Lieberman • netroots • petition
- GOP Charts Offshore Drilling Compromise
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 8, 08 11:12 AM CDT
  
  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to forge a bipartisan coalition on domestic oil drilling, Politico reports. Republican senators believe they can sway enough moderate Democrats on an amendment to end a federal ban on coastline drilling—allowing a dramatic shift in US energy policy, and reaping a big victory for the GOP. More »
  
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  Senate • gas prices • GOP • energy • bipartisanship • Mitch McConnell • oil drilling • offshore oil • compromise
- The Real Joke May Be on Minn. Voters
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 7, 08 11:03 AM CDT
  
  Voters always say they’d rather support “real people” than “professional politicians.” But Al Franken is having trouble in Minnesota precisely because he hasn’t spent his life reading a political script, Michael Kinsley writes in the Washington Post . Instead, he told jokes for a living—jokes his opponents are now trying to transform into political gaffes, and it seems to be working. More »
  
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  Senate • Minnesota • comedian • Al Franken • Norm Coleman • gaffes
June 2008
- Congress Passes $162B Measure to Fund Wars
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 26, 08 10:24 PM CDT
  
  The Senate tonight passed a $162 billion war spending plan, sending to President Bush legislation that will pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan until the next president takes office. The package, approved 92-6, includes a doubling of GI Bill college benefits. It also provides a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits and $2.7 billion in flood relief for the Midwest. Bush is expected to sign the bill next week. More »
  
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  Congress • Senate • war funding • spending bill
- Huge Homeowner Aid Bill Nears Approval
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 25, 08 4:54 AM CDT
  
  With 8,000 foreclosures daily and looming elections, Congress is close to approving the most sweeping changes to mortgage financing since the New Deal, reports the New York Times. The pricey aid bill aimed at helping hundreds of thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure has bipartisan support, despite the threat of a presidential veto. More »
  
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  Congress • Senate • housing crisis • foreclosure • John Kerry • Barney Frank • presidential veto
- In Senate, Pranks Mix With Politics
  
  newser | McClatchy Newspapers | Jun 23, 08 12:13 PM CDT
  
  The prank war started when Ben Nelson took advantage of Claire McCaskill's inexperience and got his fellow Democrat even more nervous about her 2007 Senate swearing-in than she already was. The action since then has been sporadic but inventive. McClatchy returns from Capitol Hill with tales of the lawmakers' dueling practical jokes, which have involved Barack Obama and college football paraphernalia. More »
  
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  Senate • prank • Claire McCaskill • Ben Nelson
- Hollywood Women Work on Senate Majority
  
  newser | Politico | Jun 18, 08 1:17 PM CDT
  
  Powerful Hollywood women are reorganizing after Hillary Clinton's failed presidential bid, turning their attention toward increasing the Democratic majority in the Senate. A fundraiser Sept. 27 could raise more than $1 million for candidates, and is being put together by the likes of Jane Fonda, Kate Capshaw, Penny Marshall, Daryl Hannah, Laura Dern, and Sarah Jessica Parker. More »
  
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  Senate • Hollywood • Sarah Jessica Parker • Al Franken • Jeanne Shaheen • Tom Udall • Mark Begich • Jane Fonda • fund raising • Penny Marshall • Tom Allen • Mark Udall • Laura Dern
- Is Franken Too Vulgar for Politics?
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 18, 08 6:51 AM CDT
  
  Al Franken was cracking tasteless jokes for decades before entering politics, but it may be his opponent in the Minnesota Senate race who'll be accused of coarsening debate if he dares to brings them up, Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post . Franken calls his work "provocative, touching, and funny" satire—but Gerson doesn't think it's worthy of the name. More »
  
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  Senate • comedy • Minnesota • satire • Al Franken • Norm Coleman
- Senate Seats Most Likely to Flip (Only 1 to GOP)
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 13, 08 1:51 PM CDT
  
  The GOP's best case-scenario sees the party losing only three Senate seats this fall. Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza runs down the races most likely to flip a vote: Mississippi: Trent Lott replacement Roger Wicker has never been elected statewide, and Barack Obama's coattails should draw in the large black population. Minnesota: Al Franken remains promising, but he's no sure thing, thanks to back taxes and Playboy bylines. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • George W. Bush • Senate • Trent Lott • Al Franken • Jeanne Shaheen • Mark Warner • Tom Udall • Mary Landrieu • Elizabeth Dole • Roger Wicker • Mark Udall • Jeff Merkley

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