The statement provoked an almost immediate response from Representative Bennie G. Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and chairman of the committee. Mr. Thompson said he believed that the Salahis’ testimony was crucial to Congress’s investigation and that if the couple were absent from Thursday’s hearing, “the committee is prepared to move forward with subpoenas to compel their appearance."
The statement provoked an almost immediate response from Representative Bennie G. Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and chairman of the committee.
Mr. Thompson said he believed that the Salahis’ testimony was crucial to Congress’s investigation and that if the couple were absent from Thursday’s hearing, “the committee is prepared to move forward with subpoenas to compel their appearance."
Who wants to bet that there will be more follow-through on this than there ever was when former Bush officials were ignoring actual subpoenas and threats of being cited for Contempt of Congress?
The cost of a new jobs bill Democrats hope to move early next year runs to nearly $300 billion when major proposals under serious consideration are added up. Lawmakers are calling for extending aid to the unemployed, infrastructure spending, a hiring tax credit and increased small business loans. A number of the jobs proposals backed by Democrats make up a $230 billion package proposed by Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com, who made a presentation to Senate Democrats Wednesday. The provisions supported by Zandi along with new spending on infrastructure, a favored approach of top House Democrats, would cost between $291 billion and $299 billion, according to estimates by lawmakers and economists. Aides cautioned that Democratic leaders in both chambers are just beginning to consider what will go into the bill, and that estimates based on standalone bills may not mesh with the final jobs legislation.
The cost of a new jobs bill Democrats hope to move early next year runs to nearly $300 billion when major proposals under serious consideration are added up.
Lawmakers are calling for extending aid to the unemployed, infrastructure spending, a hiring tax credit and increased small business loans.
A number of the jobs proposals backed by Democrats make up a $230 billion package proposed by Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com, who made a presentation to Senate Democrats Wednesday. The provisions supported by Zandi along with new spending on infrastructure, a favored approach of top House Democrats, would cost between $291 billion and $299 billion, according to estimates by lawmakers and economists. Aides cautioned that Democratic leaders in both chambers are just beginning to consider what will go into the bill, and that estimates based on standalone bills may not mesh with the final jobs legislation.
... shaping up to be a public airing of that national party’s internal discontents. The issues and cultural references in the race are unmistakably Texan. But the contest’s central question — whether a highly popular general-election Republican (Hutchison) can defeat a less-popular Republican (Perry) who nonetheless knows how to excite conservative primary voters — goes to the heart of the party’s overall vitality. In an effort to reclaim Reagan’s scepter, both campaigns are aggressively ignoring the Gipper’s 11th Commandment to not speak ill of fellow Republicans. The mounting ugliness between “Slick Rick” and “Kay Bailout” seems destined to turn off independent voters because, as the veteran political handicapper Charlie Cook observes: “in a primary, shrillness matters. It’s a race to the fringe.”
Officials at the Minnesota mega-mall this week told reporters planning to cover the Minneapolis-area stop on Palin’s Going Rogue book tour they must address the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate who resigned as governor last summer by her old title — a common honor, actually, which normally is accorded to former governors. But the mall also was banning foreign reporters, [permitting] “only English speaking press.”That’s not a common requirement. The mall is now apologizing for the communique, calling it “an internal miscommunication” that was “inadvertently distributed.” (”In other words, it got out,” writes Silva.) A publicist for Palin’s publisher says it’s “not the message the governor wants to send out.”
Officials at the Minnesota mega-mall this week told reporters planning to cover the Minneapolis-area stop on Palin’s Going Rogue book tour they must address the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate who resigned as governor last summer by her old title — a common honor, actually, which normally is accorded to former governors. But the mall also was banning foreign reporters, [permitting] “only English speaking press.”That’s not a common requirement.
Officials at the Minnesota mega-mall this week told reporters planning to cover the Minneapolis-area stop on Palin’s Going Rogue book tour they must address the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate who resigned as governor last summer by her old title — a common honor, actually, which normally is accorded to former governors.
But the mall also was banning foreign reporters, [permitting] “only English speaking press.”That’s not a common requirement.
The mall is now apologizing for the communique, calling it “an internal miscommunication” that was “inadvertently distributed.” (”In other words, it got out,” writes Silva.) A publicist for Palin’s publisher says it’s “not the message the governor wants to send out.”
The Americans for Legal Immigration PAC just announced that it’s withdrawing its longstanding support for former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, who the group previously called on to run for president, because he’s backed away from his stance against legalization of illegal immigrants.