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NEWS ABOUT: Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Graham stories: 34 news summaries

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 Senate Dems Don't Have 
 Votes to Pass Stimulus 

Senate moderates, GOP insist on stripping out billions

Feb 4, 09 9:23 AM CST
(Newser) - President Obama’s first big bill, the stimulus package passed by the House, lacks the votes to clear a Senate filibuster, reports the Washington Post. Senate moderates are proposing to strip $200 billion in spending to win GOP supporters. Says Democratic whip Dick Durbin, “100 decisions” will be “... More »

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Senate • filibuster • Susan Collins • Lindsey Graham • Dick Durbin • tax breaks • economic stimulus package • Ben Nelson • Obama administration

In Afghanistan, Biden Meets Troops, General, Prez

VP-elect thanks soldiers for 'big, big' work

Jan 10, 09 8:35 AM CST
(AP) - Joe Biden got word today in Afghanistan that thousands of new American troops expected in the country's south will need more helicopters and other support to beat back surging Taliban violence, the AP reports. Biden and Sen. Lindsey Graham met with the head of the NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, Gen.... More »

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Afghanistan • Joe Biden • Pakistan • vice president • Lindsey Graham • NATO troops • Afghanistan war • David McKiernan

 Biden Starts Swing 
 Through Southwest Asia 

VP-elect in Pakistan today; expected to visit India, Afghanistan

Jan 9, 09 5:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Joe Biden arrived in Pakistan today at the start of a tour of Southwest Asia, AFP reports. The vice-president-elect is leading a congressional delegation that includes Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. Talks with President Asif Ali Zardari and other Pakistani leaders are likely to focus on the war on terror and... More »

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Joe Biden • Pakistan • Lindsey Graham • Asif Ali Zardari • Senate Foreign Relations Committee

ANALYSIS

Obama Appointments Leave Little for GOP to Knock

Foreign-policy, economics teams peppered with respected, relatively conservative appointees

Dec 3, 08 2:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s Cabinet picks leave Republicans with few lines of attack, Politico reports. In contrast to campaign rhetoric that painted Obama as a radical leftist, the retention of Robert Gates and selection of McCain buddy Jim Jones has won praise from GOP stalwarts. Karl Rove himself said Obama’s... More »

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Barack Obama • Karl Rove • Cabinet • RNC • Robert Gates • Lindsey Graham • Jim Jones • President Obama

 Far Right Cheers 
 Hillary at State 

Neocons, writers trumpet her ability to defy party on foreign policy

Nov 22, 08 1:02 PM CST
(Newser) - The far right is warming to the idea of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, with neocons, righty writers, and a manager of Bill’s impeachment trial all getting excited about her perceived “willingness to veer right on international policy,” writes Ana Marie Cox at the Daily Beast.... More »

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Hillary Clinton • secretary of State • foreign policy • Lindsey Graham • conservatives • neoconservatves • William Kristol

 Obama-McCain Meeting 
 Stresses Cooperation 

Former foes issue joint statement after Chicago confab

Nov 17, 08 2:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama and John McCain met today in Chicago, and reaffirmed their call for bipartisanship and cooperation, the Tribune reports. The 90-minute meeting, at Obama’s transition headquarters, was described by the president-elect as a “conversation about how we can do some work together to fix up the country.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Chicago • Rahm Emanuel • Lindsey Graham • transition • Election 2008 • President Obama

OPINION

 The Bromance 
 of Mac & Graham 

SC senator plays eager foil to Republican nominee's quirks

Sep 5, 08 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - “While most politicians collect allies, McCain collects followers,” Eve Fairbanks writes in the New Republic, and there’s no better example than Sen. Lindsey Graham, McCain’s “sidekick” and foil in the nation's most prominent “bromance.” McCain’s top stump surrogate is no stranger to... More »

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John McCain • presidential politics • Lindsey Graham • campaign trail • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

 Morning Talk Shows Abuzz With Palin Pick 

Republicans called Alaska gov. a 'maverick'

Aug 31, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin ruled the political morning shows today at the expense of Barack Obama's historic speech last week, Politico reports:
  • John McCain rebuked criticisms that Palin was unqualified to be "a heartbeat away" from the presidency. “She’s been commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard,
... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • John Kerry • Chris Dodd • Lindsey Graham • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

 New McCain Attack:
 Obama Wants
 to Lose War 

Republicans say Dem is serving own purposes

Jul 14, 08 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s inner circle tried a new line of attack against Barack Obama today, charging that the presumptive Democratic nominee and his entire party want to lose the Iraq war to serve their own political purposes. Said McCain’s top foreign policy hand, “Senator Obama seems to think... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Barack Obama • John McCain • Harry Reid • Lindsey Graham • patriotism

CIA Gave Pentagon Torture Tips

Methods were 'reverse-engineered' from manuals

Jun 18, 08 8:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - The CIA gave the Pentagon advice about the legality of harsh interrogation techniques to be used on detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, the Washington Post reports. Documents shown to a Senate committee yesterday reveal that the agency had a bigger role than first thought. Torture is "subject to... More »

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CIA • Pentagon • Guantanamo Bay • Lindsey Graham • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • Senate Armed Services Committee

 Lindsey Graham,
 McCain's 'Mini-Me' 

Why the South Carolina senator is proud to be belittled by GOP candidate

Apr 9, 08 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Lindsey Graham must be getting something special from his friendship with John McCain, Politico writes, because he's willing to be dubbed Mac’s “mini-me” in the press—and called “little jerk” by the candidate himself. Of course, it's worth it for the first-term South Carolina Republican, who... More »

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immigration • John McCain • South Carolina • maverick • Lindsey Graham • judicial nominations

General's Anti-War Turn Thrills Dems

Ex-Iraq commander forges surprising
bond with Pelosi

Nov 27, 07 4:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi has made one of her strangest alliances yet with ousted Iraq commander Ricardo Sanchez, and their bring-the-troops-home alliance thrills Democratic leaders but baffles others, the Washington Post reports. Sanchez, forced to retire over the Abu Ghraib scandal, delivered last weekend’s Democratic radio address and blasted President Bush’... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Abu Ghraib • Lindsey Graham • Ricardo Sanchez

GOP Senators Kill Dem Iraq Withdrawal Bill

Timetable remains sticking point; Repub measure also fails

Nov 16, 07 11:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Senate Republicans today blocked a bill that would have funded the Iraq war and set a withdrawal deadline of December 15, 2008. The legislation cleared the House but received only 53 of 60 needed votes in the Senate. "It's telling our soldiers, you're losers, when they're winners. So we're... More »

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Senate • Senate Republicans • Lindsey Graham • Iraq war

Petraeus on Iraq: No Exit

Question haunts congressional hearings

Sep 12, 07 7:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - When David Petraeus led the 101st Airborne into Iraq in 2003, he made a rhetorical request: "Tell me how this ends." That question hung in the air during 2 days of testimony before Congress. McClatchy's Newspapers' Warren Strobel summarizes press sentiment when he concludes that the general failed... More »

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Iraq • Congress • Chuck Hagel • troop surge • David Petraeus • Ryan Crocker • John Warner • testimony • Bill Nelson • Lindsey Graham

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