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Sen. Mary Landrieu , D-La., will chair the Senate Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Homeland Security in the new Congress, responsible for drafting legislation to finance the Department of Homeland Security, which had a $55.35 billion budget in fiscal 2010. "Chairing this subcommittee is a responsibility I look forward to taking on and one I take very seriously," Landrieu said. "DHS is responsible for protecting our country from foreign and domestic terrorist threats, helping our nation prepare for and recover from both man-made and natural disasters, robustly enforcing our immigration laws and ensuring that everyone and everything coming into the country by air, land or sea pose no threat to the American people," said Landrieu, who noted that "my home state of Louisiana includes the Coast Guard's largest district headquarters, and I have spent years working to reform FEMA in the wake of the devastating hurricanes that battered the Gulf Coast region in 2005."
Sen. Mary Landrieu to lead homeland security subcommittee | NOLA.com
Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), left, talks with Vice President Joe Biden at a hearing. Lugar voted for raising the debt ceiling. LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock said he'll challenge longtime U.S.
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Schumer wants US airplane tracking system modernized | 7online.com
Eyewitness News NEW YORK (WABC) -- There are calls to modernize the nation's airplane tracking system after a jumbo jet and two military transport planes nearly collided. "The GPS system, which uses radar from satellites, is used by just about every western country and even countries like Mongolia, but the United States has not installed it and uses a radar system that is 40 years old," Senator Schumer said. Senator Schumer also said next week Congress will begin debate on a so-called "FAA Modernization" bill that will call for replacing radar with GPS.
COMMENTARY | Silence is said to sometimes speak volumes. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), 2008 presidential hopeful and a man whose endorsement in the upcoming 2012 presidential primaries would provide a powerful push to a politician's campaign, told Politico this week that he had no plans of endorsing anyone for the 2012 Republican Party nomination. No endorsement of anyone, of course, would include his 2008 running mate, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin... But it is early still. Many Republicans haven't declared whether or not they were actually running, although it appears that one hopeful, Sen. Mike Pence (R-IN), a darling of the conservative blogosphere, has already made it known he would not be campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 in what looks to be an already crowded field.
John McCain Will Not Endorse Sarah Palin in 2012 - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com
1. give me a break! we know Israel is concerned the Muslim BH will get a stake in the new government! what do you want us to do about Citizens wanting CHANGE in their country? Even if it means the Muslim Brotherhood would gain power....Seems like the Israeli's are the ones who can't see that the USA is in a declining period. If Israel would stop terrorizing the Palestinians then she wouldn't have to worry about any group coming into power in a SOVERREIGN nation like Egypt. Israel wants to keep the status Quo for an 82 yr old dictator.....suppose he were to just die in office?
McCain: Mubarak Needs to Step Down - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Israel National News
BILLINGS - Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) called the events in Egypt some of the most interesting and pivotal in modern history. "The tectonic plates are shifting, profound changes, most of which we can't begin to fathom and understand," he said Friday.
Senator Baucus Reacts to Egyptian Protests | KULR-8 News, Sports, Weather - Billings, Montana | Local Top Stories
WASHINGTON DC (KMOX)- With the metro east facing higher flood insurance rates at the end of the year, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is calling on FEMA to admit that even uncertified levees do exist. Currently, when issuing flood maps that determine who must have federal flood insurance and their rates, FEMA treats uncertified levees as if they aren’t there. Southwestern Illinois Flood Prevention District Council Executive Les Sterman says that’s just nonsense, “Obviously that’s not what really exists out there.
Durbin Tells FEMA to Admit Metro East Levees Exist « CBS St. Louis
Senator Harkin stands behind federal healthcare reform
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat, is standing behind the federal healthcare reform law. Federal lower court rulings have split on whether the law is unconstitutional, so the issue will likely be decided at the highest level. Harkin says it looks the issue will make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Harkin says he has no idea how the Supreme Court might rule, but he believes “there’s a strong case to be made that under the commerce clause of the constitution that Congress can mandate or regulate certain things.” The courts that have ruled against the reform say it cannot mandate that people not covered by another plan buy government health insurance.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today took to the Senate floor to discuss the importance of health reform and the consequences of repealing the law. The Senate is expected to vote on a Republican amendment that would repeal the Affordable Care Act, the health reform law that was signed into law last year. Repeal would deprive millions of Americans of important protections against insurance companies, raise health costs and, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, increase the federal deficit by $230 billion by 2021. Harkin specifically spoke about how the current health care bill has impacted the lives of two Iowans – Sarah Posekany and Eleanor Pierce both of Cedar Falls.
U.S. Sen. Harkin: Takes to Senate floor to discuss consequences of repealing health reform
Planned Parenthood worker axed - Jennifer Epstein - POLITICO.com
Planned Parenthood has fired an employee caught on tape advising a man posing as a sex trafficker on how to get treatment for underage girls. The group announced Wednesday that it fired a clinic manager in Perth Amboy, N.J., shown explaining how the man could go about getting STD testing, birth control and abortions for 14- and 15-year-old girls. Continue Reading “We were profoundly shocked when we viewed the videotape,” said Phyllis Kinsler, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey.
A few weeks ago, you may remember, in a post called How The Doomed Met Office Tried To Spin Its Way Out Of Trouble , I reported on some extraordinary shenanigans involving the Met Office, the BBC, the BBC's High Priest of Gaian Worship and Climate Alarmism Roger Harrabin and the Coalition government. It was one of those stories where you found yourself wishing: "Someone's going to come really badly out of this. Please God, let it be all of them."
How the BBC's Roger Harrabin was ensnared by his own tangled web – Telegraph Blogs
Worth Reading » Bad, Blumenthal, Bad!
Earlier this week, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., got quite an introduction to how the Senate works. On Jan. 31, the freshman senator was due to preside over the U.S. Senate, an often boring task that is traditionally assigned to the newest senators so they can learn Senate rules and procedure. (The Vice President of the United States is the Senate’s president, but since vice presidents have become more powerful over the years, they rarely preside over the Senate anymore.KRWG: Bingaman To Meet With Obama On Energy Policy (2011-02-01)
The New Mexico Democrat and head of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to meet with the president Wednesday to talk about the country's energy policy and how to strengthen it. Bingaman will also be leading two committee hearings in Washington, D.C., this week to examine the energy and oil market outlook and the medical isotopes production act. Bingaman said Monday it's clear that energy has a major place on Congress' agenda and that the United States needs to respond to international competition for clean energy jobs.ABQJournal.com is free to Albuquerque Journal print newspaper 7-day subscribers. If you are a daily print subscriber, register here for free access to ABQJournal.com Site pass sponsored by
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Bill Nelson: Mubarak will have to go | Gainesville.com
On Dec. 17, just hours after being harassed by local authorities, a young Tunisian street vendor named Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire. It was a desperate protest against his country’s grinding unemployment and the abuse he suffered at the hands of an authoritarian regime. Although the fire itself was quickly extinguished, the flames of anger and frustration spread across Tunisia. On Jan. 4, when Mr. Bouazizi died of his injuries, the resulting inferno brought down Tunisia’s longtime ruler, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Fueled by repression and unemployment, and spreading through Facebook and Twitter, the flames of anger and frustration reached Egypt.Schumer visits Utica to tout DNA fingerprinting - Utica, NY - The Observer-Dispatch, Utica, New York
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