Tag Archive: Sonia Sotomayor

LiveBlog for Thursday, August 13, 2009

• Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform. • Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) held four town hall meetings in his home state yesterday. He said that there were large turnouts because people are scared about health care reform. Some booing and arguments occurred, but the overall tone…

LiveBlog for Friday, August 7, 2009

• Rep. Betty Sutton (D-OH) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about Cash for Clunkers (which she introduced and advanced). • Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform. • Comedian John Fugelsang calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about health care protesters, cash for clunkers,…

LiveBlog for Thursday, August 6, 2009

• Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ) calls in at 6:06am Pacific to talk about health care reform. • Comedian Will Durst calls in at 6:30am Pacific to do a little bipartisan bashing and to promote his upcoming gigs in Washington, DC. • Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific…

LiveBlog for Wednesday, July 29, 2009

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION FOR SENS. SCHUMER, LEAHY, AND DURBIN!  CITIZENS FOR A PUBLIC OPTION! • Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform. • Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis calls in at 7:05am to give us the White House perspective on health care reform. • Karl Frisch,…

LiveBlog for Tuesday, July 28, 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…

LiveBlog for Wednesday, July 22, 2009

• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about the progress being made with health care reform. • Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform. • Comedian Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific to talk about all things politics and…

LiveBlog for Monday, July 20, 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…

LiveBlog for Friday, July 17. 2009

• CNN’s Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings. • Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific to talk about the news of the day. • Questions surrounding Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s past speeches generated more controversy in the final day of…

LiveBlog for Thursday, July 16, 2009

• James Woolsey, former CIA Director, calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about clean energy and how it relates to our national security. • Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about the Sotomayor hearings and about health care reform. • The Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) calls in at 8:30am…

LiveBlog for Wednesday, July 15, 2009

• Rob Kar, Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Illinois, calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about his experiences clerking for Judge Sotomayor in 1998-99, and his impressions of being at her hearing yesterday. • Comedian Michael Ian Black calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about his new Comedy Central…