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Of Course Senator Graham Would Support Sotomayor

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:23:07 PM

GOP’s Graham Will Vote for Sotomayor

Sen. Lindsey Graham announced Wednesday that he intends to vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

The South Carolina Republican is the first GOP member of the Judiciary Committee to come out in support of Sotomayor, and he could provide some cover for other conservative Republicans to support her as well.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=cqmidday-000003173748
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Pro 2nd Amendment Amendment Fails to Pass in the Senate

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:21:31 PM
The roll call was 58-39, with 3 Senators who did not vote. 20 Democrats voted with 38 Republicans. 2 Republicans (Lugar and Voinovich) voted no with the rest of the Democrats.

Here is the language of the amendment:

To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to allow citizens who have concealed carry permits from the State in which they reside to carry concealed firearms in another State that grants concealed carry permits, if the individual complies with the laws of the State.

Now the roll call:

YEAs ---58
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
 DeMint (R-SC)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
 McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reid (D-NV)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Wicker (R-MS)
NAYs ---39
Akaka (D-HI)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
 Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
 Merkley (D-OR)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Not Voting - 3
Byrd (D-WV)
 Kennedy (D-MA)
 Mikulski (D-MD)




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Bin Laden Son Killed in Pakistan?

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:13:45 PM

Bin Laden Son Reported Killed In Pakistan

by Mary Louise Kelly

NPR.org, July 22, 2009 · U.S. officials believe Saad bin Laden — a son of Osama bin Laden — has been killed by an American missile in Pakistan.

Saad bin Laden reportedly spent years under house arrest in Iran before traveling last year to Pakistan, according to former National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell.

It's believed he was killed by Hellfire missiles fired from a U.S. Predator drone sometime this year.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106903109

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Health Care Vote in the Senate to be Delayed

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:12:19 PM
Durbin: No pre-recess vote on healthcare
By J. Taylor Rushing
Posted: 07/22/09 04:09 PM [ET]

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that a pre-recess vote on healthcare reform is unlikely.

“We’re going to take a little longer to get it right,” Durbin told The Hill when asked about the oft-stated goal of a vote on or before Aug. 7, when a monthlong Senate recess begins. “Initially we had hoped for a full vote by then, but I don’t think it’s going to be possible.”

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/durbin-no-pre-recess-vote-on-healthcare-2009-07-22.html
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Specter v Toomey is Tied

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:10:26 PM
July 22, 2009 - Toomey Ties Specter In Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; More Say New Democrat Does Not Deserve Another Term


Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's 2010 reelection lead over Republican challenger Pat Toomey has shrunk to a tie with 45 percent for Specter and 44 percent for Toomey, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. And voters say 49 - 40 percent that Sen. Specter does not deserve reelection.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1327.xml?ReleaseID=1351
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Conservative Kiosk Not Allowed at Mall

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:09:51 PM

Conservative kiosk not allowed at mall
12:09 PM EDT on Wednesday, July 22, 2009
 By BETH SHAYNE / NewsChannel 36
E-mail Beth: BShayne@WCNC.com

Video

CONCORD, N.C. -- "Impeach Obama."

"Al Qaeda's favorite days: 9/11/01 and 11/04/08."

"Work Harder. Obama needs the money."

The bumper stickers and posters sold at "Free Market Warrior" at Concord Mills are meant to be "biting," the kiosk's owner Loren Spivack said.

At least one passerby found them racist and bigoted, and took time to tell the mall in a letter and a letter to the editor of the Charlotte Observer.


http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/wcnc-072109-mrn-freemarketwarrior.63b5bce2.html
Tags: obama  
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Senator Kyl Will Oppose Sotomayor

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:09:12 PM

Sen. Kyl, No. 2 Republican, to oppose Sotomayor

No. 2 Republican Sen. Kyl to announce opposition to Sotomayor, lining up with conservatives

  • By Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Associated Press Writer
  • On Wednesday July 22, 2009, 10:42 am EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. Jon Kyl's office says he'll vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor (SOHN'-ya soh-toh-my-YOR'), the latest of his party's conservative leaders to announce he'll oppose President Barack Obama's choice to be the first Hispanic justice.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Sen-Kyl-No-2-Republican-to-apf-196331584.html?x=0&.v=1
Tags: kyl   sotomayor  
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Obama Tries to Intimidate CBO Director?

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:40:52 PM
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/22/report_obama_ordered_cbo_chief_to_wh.html
Tags: obama   ethics  
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Rahm Emanuel Thinks Obama Rescued the Economy

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:38:18 PM
Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, said in an interview that the president intended to use the news conference as a “six-month report card,” to talk about “how we rescued the economy from the worst recession” and the legislative agenda moving forward, including health care and energy legislation, which squeaked through the House and faces a tough road in the Senate.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=upiUPI-20090722-062929-3861&show_article=1

House Minority Leader John Boehner tends to disagree:

   
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Where's the Transparency?

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:36:37 PM

White House declines to disclose visits by health industry executives

Citing an argument used by the Bush administration, the Secret Service rejects a request from a watchdog group to list those who have visited the White House to discuss the healthcare overhaul.
By Peter Nicholas
July 22, 2009
Reporting from Washington -- Invoking an argument used by President George W. Bush, the Obama administration has turned down a request from a watchdog group for a list of health industry executives who have visited the White House to discuss the massive healthcare overhaul.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sent a letter to the Secret Service asking about visits from 18 executives representing health insurers, drug makers, doctors and other players in the debate. The group wants the material in order to gauge the influence of those executives in crafting a new healthcare policy.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-healthcare-talks22-2009jul22,0,1752248.story
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Not So Easy is It

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:40:29 AM

Gitmo review delayed 6 months

Obama puts vow in doubt

By Joseph Curl (Contact)

Originally published 04:45 a.m., July 21, 2009, updated 11:16 a.m., July 21, 2009

President Obama on Monday extended by six months a task force charged with determining how terrorism suspects should be interrogated, held in custody or handed over to other countries, putting in jeopardy his promise to close the military detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by January.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/21/gitmo-review-delayed-6-months/
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ObamaCare for Illegal Immigrants

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:37:58 AM
Obamacare for Illegal Aliens
by Michelle Malkin

Big Nanny Democrats want to ration health care for everyone in America -- except those who break our immigration laws. Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee defeated an amendment that would have prevented illegal aliens from using the so-called "public health insurance option." Every Democrat on the panel voted against the measure.

Nevada GOP Rep. Dean Heller's measure would have enforced income, eligibility and immigration verification screening on all Obamacare patients. Unlike most everything else stuffed into the House Democrats' plan, the citizenship vetting process would not have required building a new bureaucracy. Heller proposed using existing state and federal databases created years ago to root out entitlement fraud.

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/07/22/obamacare_for_illegal_aliens


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July 22nd in American History

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:13:29 AM

July 22, 1862

Lincoln tells his cabinet about Emancipation Proclamation

On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln informs his chief advisors and cabinet that he will issue a proclamation to free slaves, but adds that he will wait until the Union Army has achieved a substantial military victory to make the announcement.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=791


1937 - The U.S. Senate rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.

1955 - U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon chaired a cabinet meeting in Washington, DC. It was the first time that a Vice-President had carried out the task.

2004 - The September 11 commission's final report was released. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited "deep institutional failings within our government." The report was released to White House officials the day before.
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When a State Has a Budget Problem, States Should Just Release Its Prisoners

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:23:08 PM

State budget deal reduces prison inmates by 27,000

The plan accomplishes this with a combination of measures, including having some prisoners complete sentences at home and shortening terms for those who finish rehabilitation programs.
By Michael Rothfeld
2:29 PM PDT, July 21, 2009
Reporting from Sacramento -- The state budget deal negotiated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders would reduce the population of California prisons by nearly 27,000 inmates in the current fiscal year.

That would be done with a combination of new measures, including allowing some inmates to finish their sentences on home detention, creating new incentives for completion of rehabilitation programs and scaling back parole supervision for the least serious offenders.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-california-budget22-2009jul22,0,1856950.story

Tags: Ca   budget  
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Obama Got His Wish

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:08:04 PM
• Senate Strips F-22 Money From Defense Bill

The vote was 58-40.

Here is the roll call:

YEAs ---58
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bond (R-MO)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corker (R-TN)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Franken (D-MN)
 Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
 Merkley (D-OR)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shelby (R-AL)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Udall (D-CO)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
NAYs ---40
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
 Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Dodd (D-CT)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Martinez (R-FL)
McConnell (R-KY)
 Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Not Voting - 2
Kennedy (D-MA)
 Mikulski (D-MD)


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