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Reid Blinked on Senate Bailout Bill

BY Matthew Rothschild, OCTOBER 1, 2008 The Senate leadership just blew an opportunity for adequately revising the bailout bill. The Senate bill does nothing for people who need help the most: people who are facing foreclosure....

US Senate kicks off debate on N-deal

The US Senate on Wednesday opened a debate on the Indo-US nuclear deal before taking up for vote a legislation on the initiative, four days after the House of Representatives gave its nod to the landmark agreement.

The GOP's real go-to guy - What Rush Limbaugh wants, he gets, when it comes to McCain's campaign.

The GOP's real go-to guy What Rush Limbaugh wants, he gets, when it comes to McCain's campaign. By Zev Chafets September 29, 2008 If John McCain is elected president, he will have a lot of people to thank. Improbably,...

McCain's Lost Chance

Obama Holds His Own on Foreign Policy Monday, September 29, 2008; Page A19 September began as John McCain's month and ended as Barack Obama's. And Friday's debate eliminated McCain's best chance to deliver a knockout blow...

$630B federal spending bill has help for Wisconsin

By Ellyn Ferguson • Press-Gazette Washington bureau • September 28, 2008 WASHINGTON – President Bush is expected to sign a massive spending bill that includes defense money for two Northeastern Wisconsin companies and...

Kagen returned Fannie Mae’s donation

Washington - As mortgage giant Fannie Mae continues to make headlines, Wisconsin Republicans are attempting to link Rep. Steve Kagen to the troubled lending company, accusing him of covering up a campaign contribution...

Senate approves $634 billion spending bill

Washington - Automakers gained $25 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans and oil companies won elimination of a long-standing ban on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as the Senate passed a sprawling spending...

U.S. Corporations are Ugly Americans

clipped by: spirithikerclipper's remarks: American corporations pay foreign countries for rights to extract oil, gas, and minerals from within their borders. Those governments have done nothing to regulate oil company...

Bailout talk strikes raw nerve in state

By Ellyn Ferguson • Post-Crescent Washington bureau • September 26, 2008 WASHINGTON — Bailout is dirty word in the Badger State. Just ask Wisconsin lawmakers who've gotten hundreds of calls, letters, e-mails and faxes —...

New Report: State Disenfranchisement Reform Restores Right to More than 760,000

Friends: The Sentencing Project today released a report, Expanding the Vote: State Felony Disenfranchisement Reform, 1997- 2008, that documents a reform movement over the past eleven years that has resulted in more than...