Obama signs Patriot Act extension with autopen
AP via Yahoo! News Thu, 26 May 2011 21:06 PM PDT
Congress on Thursday passed a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. Votes taken in rapid succession in the Senate and House came after lawmakers rejected attempts to temper the law enforcement powers to ensure that individual liberties are not abused. |
Pawlenty's Reach and the 2012 Surprise
The Globalist Thu, 26 May 2011 21:06 PM PDT
At present, the Obama forces believe that former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty will be a threat to the president's reelection chances only if the economy doesn't recover more strongly. |
Congress sends terrorism-fighting bill to Obama
AP via Yahoo! News Thu, 26 May 2011 21:03 PM PDT
Congress on Thursday passed a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. Votes taken in rapid succession in the Senate and House came after lawmakers rejected attempts to temper the law enforcement powers to ensure that individual liberties are not abused. |
Jackson Diehl: Obama and Bibi: The Scorecard
Winston-Salem Journal Thu, 26 May 2011 21:00 PM PDT
Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu have spent six days lecturing each other about the "realities" of the Middle East, either face to face or with Congress, the State Department or the AIPAC lobbying group as an audience. They have managed to focus much of the world on their differences over Palestinian statehood and their evident animosity toward each other. |
'Drill, baby, drill' won't cut it
The Tampa Tribune Thu, 26 May 2011 21:00 PM PDT
This country can't drill its way to lower gasoline prices. Yet President Obama is opening the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to more drilling, and Republicans in the House passed legislation â€" rejected in the Senate â€" to expand offshore drilling in federal waters near Southern California, Alaska and in the Atlantic Ocean while weakening environmental protections. Both were ineffective ... |
Japan PM Kan to visit Washington this year: US official
Dawn Thu, 26 May 2011 20:55 PM PDT
DEAUVILLE, France: Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan will make an official visit to Washington in September, officials said Thursday after the Japanese leader met US President Barack Obama. |
Florida's mixed vote on the Patriot Act
St. Petersburg Times Blogs Thu, 26 May 2011 20:54 PM PDT
Earlier we reported how Florida Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson supported extending provisions of the Patriot Act. Tonight, the House passed it as well, sending the measure to President Obama. The vote made for odd alliances, as evidence among the Florida delegation. Voting no were Democrats Frederica Wilson and Alcee Hastings, and Republicans Connie Mack, Bill Posey and Allen West. Here's ... |
Baucus calls for change of course in Afghanistan
KPAX Missoula Thu, 26 May 2011 20:51 PM PDT
WASHINGTON DC - Following the death of Osama bin Laden, Senator Max Baucus called on President Obama to bring American troops home from Afghanistan. "The U.S. should not be doing the work that Afghans should be doing for themselves," said Baucus. |
Federal agencies target regulations to cut
York Daily Record Thu, 26 May 2011 20:46 PM PDT
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has identified dozens of unneeded regulations -- from handling spilled milk to requiring warm-air hand dryers -- that should be eliminated to save hundreds of millions of hours a year in filling out forms and, over time, billions of dollars in costs. |
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