Posts Tagged ‘Jeff Sessions’
LiveBlog for Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
CALL AND WRITE YOUR SENATORS AND MEMBER OF CONGRESS AND LET THEM KNOW YOU DON’T WANT THE PUBLIC OPTION REMOVED FROM HEALTH CARE REFORM! FIND OUT WHO THEY ARE HERE!!!
• Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• House Dem leaders conceded yesterday that concerns raised by fiscally Conservative Blue Dog Democrats will prevent the chamber from voting on a health care reform bill before the August recess begins at the end of the week.
• A senior administration official said Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge, MA Police Department will be visiting the White House on Thursday. The meeting among the three men will take place at 6pm.
• Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced yesterday that he will not vote to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. The committee is expected to vote today on Sotomayor’s confirmation.
• Michael Jackson’s personal doctor administered the powerful anesthetic Propofol to help him sleep, and authorities believe the drug is what killed the pop singer, a law enforcement official told the AP yesterday. On June 25, the day Jackson died, Dr. Conrad Murray gave him the drug sometime after midnight, the official said.
Tags: Barack Obama, Blue Dogs, Conrad Murray, Frank Pallone, Health Care Reform, Henry Louis Gates Jr, James Crowley, Jeff Sessions, Michael Jackson, Ron Kind, Sonia Sotomayor
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LiveBlog for Monday, July 20, 2009
Monday, July 20th, 2009
• The Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about the Sotomayor hearings and the Right’s reaction to them (also about his upcoming appearance in San Francisco on Sunday, July 26).
• Administration officials defended President Obama’s broad health care proposals yesterday and urged a skeptical public not to judge the Dems’ overhaul until Congress writes the final version. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that it’s “a work in progress,” and said “more will be done. The House and Senate are committed to working with the president to get this done.
• Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the top GOPer on the Senate committee reviewing Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination said yesterday her testimony did not settle his concerns about elevating her to the Supreme Court. “I was troubled by a number of the things the nominee has said, a number of the rulings she has made,” he said.
• The House Intelligence Committee will investigate whether the CIA broke the law by not telling Congress earlier about a secret program to deploy hit teams to kill individual Al Qaida members. Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) announced the investigation in a statement on Friday.
• A self-described “more contrite” South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wrote an op-ed, published in newspapers around South Carolina yesterday, trying to win forgiveness after admitting to an affair and being incommunicado while he left the state for several days. He vowed to “begin the journey of trying to get things more right with you and others.”
Tags: Barack Obama, CIA, Jeff Sessions, Kathleen Sebelius, Lee Papa, Mark Sanford, Rude Pundit, Silvestre Reyes, Sonia Sotomayor
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