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That sort of clarity has been rare in the presidential campaign and almost totally nonexistent among the Democrats in Congress, who are being foolishly partisan on two key issues: continued funding for the war in Iraq and updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The Iraq-funding issue is particularly...
Republicans, for their part, are unified in their opposition to any tax hikes - even threatening a filibuster if the Dems were to bring up the House bill. "The last thing the American people need right now is a massive tax increase which would be a dangerous jolt to our economy...
It started out as such a faint hope for New York Senator Charles Schumer that he hardly dared voice it. But as more and more Republicans retire or become engulfed by scandal, it has become irresistibly imaginable: the idea that Democrats might gain a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate...
What happens now in Congress? Less than many might expect. Democrats have been trying a variety of approaches since January: setting timetables, limiting deployments or easing troop-deployment schedules. Despite or maybe because of the consistent and vocal demands of the party's antiwar flank, none of the Democratic efforts...
Yet, ultimately, it is control of the war that Democrats plan on spending all night tonight debating in a rare filibuster over an amendment sponsored by Levin and Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, that specifically dictates a timeline for starting to withdraw U.S. troops no later than 120 days...