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Senate Dems Don't Have Votes to Pass Stimulus

Senate moderates, GOP insist on stripping out billions

(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 “...

NH Governor Picks Republican for Senate

(Newser) - For once, a Senate appointment went just as planned. New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch said today that Republican J. Bonnie Newman will replace Judd Gregg in the Senate once Gregg is confirmed as commerce secretary, the Boston Globe reports. Though Lynch is a Democrat and could have given his party...

Lobbyists Lard Up Senate Stimulus

Tax benefits for ag, pharmaceuticals inserted into bill

(Newser) - With the Senate debate on its stimulus bill cranking up today, interest groups are scrambling to extract their pound of flesh. The Wall Street Journal reports that lobbyists have already helped swell the total to $885 billion, in many cases with small changes in wording and technical definitions. For example,...

Senate OKs Holder as First Black AG

Partisan debate hinges on prosecuting agents who used torture

(Newser) - Eric Holder won Senate confirmation today as the nation's first African-American attorney general, after supporters from both parties touted his dream resume and easily overcame Republican concerns over his commitment to fight terrorism and his willingness to back the right to keep and bear arms, the AP reports. The vote...

Fla. Gov Charlie Crist Eyes 2010 Senate Race

(Newser) - Florida's GOP Gov. Charlie Crist is mulling a 2010 Senate run that would put him within range of the Oval Office in 2012, the Washington Post reports. But he faces a crowded field when one-term Sen. Mel Martinez steps down: A host of state lawmakers have tossed in their...

GOP Says It Will Keep Gregg's Senate Seat

Sources say Lynch would appoint interim GOP member

(Newser) - Republicans say they have a deal in place to make sure that if Barack Obama picks Judd Gregg to head the Commerce Department, they won't lose that 41st seat they need to mount a filibuster. Officials expect New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch to pick his former chief of staff Bonnie...

Senate Queasy on Spending in Obama Stimulus
Senate Queasy on Spending in Obama Stimulus
TALK SHOW ROUNDUP
Feb 1, 2009 11:30 AM CST

Senate Queasy on Spending in Obama Stimulus

Kyl: 'Start from scratch;' McConnell vows Dems won't get 60 seats

(Newser) - The level of spending in Barack Obama’s House-approved $819 billion stimulus package will complicate its Senate passage, say two senators whose support will be crucial. “Unfortunately, this bill has become a Christmas tree,” Republican Susan Collins told CNN, while Democratic colleague Ben Nelson said, “There’s...

GOP Desperate to Keep Gregg in Senate
GOP Desperate to Keep Gregg
in Senate
Jan 31, 2009 11:26 AM CST

GOP Desperate to Keep Gregg in Senate

If he takes Commerce, they want NH governor to pick a Republican

(Newser) - Republicans are stepping up efforts to keep Judd Gregg from jumping to Barack Obama’s Cabinet, or, failing that, to convince New Hampshire’s Democratic governor to pick a Republican to replace him. Otherwise, Democrats would gain a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority. “It would be a loss to the Senate...

Obama Mulls Republican for Commerce
Obama Mulls Republican for Commerce
Jan 30, 2009 10:40 AM CST

Obama Mulls Republican for Commerce

Tapping NH's Gregg could give Democrats 60 seats in Senate

(Newser) - Democrats may get their 60-seat Senate majority after all. President Obama is considering New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg for the Commerce Secretary post Bill Richardson declined, sources tell Politico. New Hampshire’s Democratic governor would then get to appoint Gregg’s successor. Asked if he’d been offered the job,...

Senate Passes Children's Health Insurance Bill

Expansion of health insurance for low-income kids passes over GOP objections

(Newser) - The Senate has passed a $32.8 billion bill to dramatically expand children's health insurance, the Washington Post reports. The State Children's Health Insurance Program will now cover 11 million low-income children, up from 7 million. The bill, which will be funded by an extra 61-cent tax on every packet...

Ad Tells Senators: It's Rush or Obama

(Newser) - A liberal group is launching an ad blitz tomorrow that pressures GOP senators to make a choice—Barack Obama or Rush Limbaugh, Politico reports. The ad—running in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Nevada—blasts House Republicans for voting against the stimulus package at Limbaugh's urging and asks, "Will our senator...

Gillibrand Mired in Ruckus Over Immigration

Caught in Upstate-NYC crossfire, senator may revisit hardline

(Newser) - Name a policy that rural Upstate New York and New York City agree on, and you've got, well, try finding one first. For everything else, there's a rock and a hard place for newly appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. First it was gun control, which the former upstate representative opposes. Now,...

Senate OKs Geithner as Treasury Secretary

(Newser) - The Senate confirmed New York Fed chief Timothy Geithner to be President Barack Obama's secretary of the treasury today, the AP reports. The 60-34 vote puts Geithner at the helm of Obama's plan to rescue the economy from the worst financial crisis in three generations. It also dislodges one of...

Blago Wanted Oprah for Senate
 Blago Wanted Oprah for Senate 
Jan 26, 2009 9:02 AM CST

Blago Wanted Oprah for Senate

Kicks off media blitz as his impeachment trial begins in Illinois

(Newser) - Rod Blagojevich considered handing Barack Obama’s Senate seat to Oprah Winfrey, he told Good Morning America today in an appearance made while boycotting his impeachment trial, which starts today. "She seemed to be someone who had helped Barack Obama in a significant way to become president," Blagojevich...

How Biden Got His Least-Likely Role
 How Biden Got 
 His Least-Likely Role 
Glossies
Jan 24, 2009 9:33 PM CST

How Biden Got His Least-Likely Role

His job as adviser will count

(Newser) - A self-declared "Senate man," Joe Biden admitted up-front that he might not fit the vice-presidency. The charming Democrat had spent two-thirds of his life making feisty speeches and verbal flubs—not exactly characteristic traits of a VP. So Barack Obama and Biden sat down to talk. All...

GOP Needs 'a Little Chaos:' Kristol
 GOP Needs 'a Little 
 Chaos:' Kristol 
OPINION
Jan 24, 2009 3:11 PM CST

GOP Needs 'a Little Chaos:' Kristol

(Newser) - Republicans clamoring for unified front should "calm down" and be careful what they wish for, William Kristol writes in the Weekly Standard. Firstly, Barack Obama is hugely popular; he'll be unassailable for months. What's more, spirited debate may serve the GOP better than blind adherence to conservative philosophy. Consider...

When It Comes to Politics, Gillibrand's a Natural
When It Comes to Politics, Gillibrand's a Natural
analysis
Jan 24, 2009 1:55 PM CST

When It Comes to Politics, Gillibrand's a Natural

Friends think new NY senator could someday be prez

(Newser) - Her name isn't well-known outside Albany, but associates of New York's newest senator say Kirsten Gillibrand will change that soon enough. Gillibrand is such a natural and skilled politician that her friends matter-of-factly expect the 42-year-old mother of two to run for president someday, the New York Times reports in...

Obama: Stimulus Isn't Just a Short-Term Fix

He lays out long-term benefits of his plan

(Newser) - In a bid to build popular support, President Obama revealed more details of his economic stimulus plan today, as debate between Democrats and Republicans in Congress over the package raged on, the New York Times reports. Obama painted the measure as an investment in the country’s future, not just...

Ambitious Gillibrand Disliked by Peers

(Newser) - Newly named Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand isn't too popular among her peers, Politico reports. The ambitious politician, who took Hillary Clinton's old seat today, has earned the nickname “Tracy Flick”—a reference to Reese Witherspoon's competitive, bubbly character in Election—for bypassing older lawmakers on her way up the...

Gillibrand Named to Senate
 Gillibrand Named to Senate 
Jan 23, 2009 12:14 PM CST

Gillibrand Named to Senate

(Newser) - David Paterson named Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand as Hillary Clinton’s replacement today, vaulting the little-known Democrat onto the national stage and into a post once thought reserved for Caroline Kennedy, the Times Union reports. “I believe I have found the best candidate,” said Paterson, insisting that the Albany-area...

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