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    Apr 19, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Shame on the Senate; send 'em all home

    Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we should react. But there are times when the intellect fails and the heart and gut take over. And this is one of them.
    Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we should react. But there are times when the intellect fails and the heart and gut take...

    Tags: Republican Party, Max Baucus, Radio, Safety of Citizens, Mark Kirk

    2. Apr 19, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  2. Courage in short supply

    WASHINGTON -- The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try.
    WASHINGTON -- The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try. In an unorthodox tactic, he appealed directly...

    Tags: Republican Party, Jeff Flake, Joe Biden, Frank Lautenberg, Heidi Heitkamp

    3. Apr 17, 2013 |Story| Aberdeen News

  3. Update: Ricin is indicated in letters to Obama, senator

    WASHINGTON (AP) — In a capital city on edge, letters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator tested positive for poisonous ricin in preliminary checks, and authorities chased a stream of reports Wednesday of other suspicious-looking...

    Tags: John Cornyn, Jeff Flake, Barack Obama, Carl Levin, Joint Chiefs of Staff

    4. Apr 17, 2013 |Story| AM News

  4. FBI: Miss. man arrested, accused in ricin letters

    OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - The FBI has identified a Mississippi man suspected of mailing letters containing poisonous ricin as 45-year-old Paul Kevin Curtis.
    Associated Press
    OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - The FBI has identified a Mississippi man suspected of mailing letters containing poisonous ricin as 45-year-old Paul Kevin Curtis. FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen said Curtis was arrested Wednesday afternoon at his...

    Tags: Jeff Flake, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Police Investigations, Chuck Hagel, Sports

    5. Mar 29, 2013 |Story| Aberdeen News

  5. NFU: Poultry grower fairness provisions endangered by Senate continuing resolution

    WASHINGTON - National Farmers Union (NFU) signed a coalition letter on March 13 urging opposition to a policy rider in the Senate version of the Fiscal Year 2013 Continuing Resolution that would rescind regulations that help ensure fair markets for...

    Tags: Barbara A. Mikulski, Politics

    6. Jan 5, 2013 |Story| WSBT-TV

  6. Talk of GOP primaries follows 'fiscal cliff' vote

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in Congress who took the politically risky step of voting to raise taxes now find themselves trying to fend off potential primary challenges next year from angry conservatives. These lawmakers wasted little time...

    Tags: Saxby Chambliss, Republican Party, Tea Party Movement, Fiscal Cliff, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce

    7. Jan 5, 2013 |Story| WSBT-TV

  7. Alabama, Indiana senators wager on title game

    TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Two U.S. senators, Richard Shelby of Alabama and Dan Coats of Indiana, have placed a friendly wager on the outcome of the national championship football game between Alabama and Notre Dame. Shelby announced Friday that if...

    Tags: Dan Coats

    8. Dec 19, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Mikulski to lead Senate Appropriations Committee

    In an unexpected move that could have significant implications for Maryland, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski will be named the first female chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday.
    In an unexpected move that could have significant implications for Maryland, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski will be named the first female chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday. The Baltimore native and Maryland Democrat, who had...

    Tags: Labor Legislation, Republican Party, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Montgomery County (Maryland), Fells Point

    9. Jun 10, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. JPMorgan's Dimon To Go To Washington

    WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jamie Dimon will be playing a new role in Washington this Wednesday, called to explain JPMorgan's recent trading debacle after years of being known as the Wall Street banker who got it right during the financial crisis.
    Reuters
    WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jamie Dimon will be playing a new role in Washington this Wednesday, called to explain JPMorgan's recent trading debacle after years of being known as the Wall Street banker who got it right during the financial crisis....

    Tags: Republican Party, Cato Corporation, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Christopher Dodd

    10. Dec 13, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. GOP's anti-democratic tantrum

    "Balanced." "Fair-minded." Showing "great personal integrity." These are some of the terms a bipartisan group of 37 state attorneys general used to describe former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, President Barack Obama's nominee for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Add to that list "good public servant," the phrase Ohio Republican Sen. Robert Portman used to describe him just days ago.
    "Balanced." "Fair-minded." Showing "great personal integrity." These are some of the terms a bipartisan group of 37 state attorneys general used to describe former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, President Barack Obama's nominee for director of the...

    Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Lawyers, Laws, Economy, Business and Finance

    11. Jun 17, 2011 |Story| Aberdeen News

  11. Thune backs Johnson's bill to cap commodity payments

     A bill offered by South Dakota Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson and Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley to cap annual farm commodity payments to $250,000 is an example of how both political parties should be working together, Johnson said Wednesday.  "It is...

    Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Chuck Grassley, Ethanol, Heads of State, Renewable Energy

    12. Jun 11, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel

  12. Guest list: Tim Pawlenty on ‘Fox News Sunday’; Ann Coulter talks to Fareed Zakaria

    The TV Guy - Orlando Sentinel
    CNN's "Reliable Sources" looks at coverage of the Rep. Anthony Weiner scandal. The guests will be Chris Cuomo of ABC News, Amy Holmes of America's Radio News, Jane Hall of American University and Dana Milbank of The Washington Post. The program starts...
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