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Why Murkowski Wants to Overhaul the Military-Justice SystemSen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has a long record of working to stop sexual assault both in Alaska and in the armed services. This year she readily signed on to three different bills to combat sexual assault in the military. But she paused when it came to a sweeping bill that would take the decision-making power over which cases get prosecuted out of the hands of commanders. Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 7:30pm |
Letter From Judiciary: How to Survive a MarkupRule One—Empty your bladder. Rule Two—Charge your phone. These are the lessons in survival for anyone covering, lobbying or staffing lawmakers who "mark up" an 800-plus-page bill. The Senate Judiciary Committee met for five long days over the course of two weeks to complete work on a sweeping immigration bill that would mark the biggest change to the law in almost 30 years. That calls for a lot of the little water bottles that dot the tables arranged in a large square around which the senators sit. Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 7:30pm |
Why Lisa Murkowski Wants to Overhaul the Military-Justice SystemSen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has a long record of working to stop sexual assault both in Alaska and in the armed services. This year she readily signed on to three different bills to combat sexual assault in the military. But she paused when it came to a sweeping bill that would take the decision-making power over which cases get prosecuted out of the hands of commanders. Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 7:30pm |
How GOP Will Keep Stirring the Scandal Stew Over RecessCongressional Republicans head into next week’s Memorial Day recess armed with a strategy designed to keep the controversies that have consumed Washington in the news back home. Congressional Republicans head into next week’s Memorial Day recess armed with a strategy designed to keep the controversies that have consumed Washington in the news back home. Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 5:48pm |
How the GOP Will Keep Stirring the Scandal Stew Over RecessCongressional Republicans head into next week’s Memorial Day recess armed with a strategy designed to keep the controversies that have consumed Washington in the news back home. Congressional Republicans head into next week’s Memorial Day recess armed with a strategy designed to keep the controversies that have consumed Washington in the news back home. Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 5:48pm |
Republican Blueprint for 2014? Scandal, Most of the TimeSince last year's election, the Republican Party's political leaders offered a blueprint of how they can rebuild the party after disappointing across-the-board 2012 losses, proposing a retooled platform that would better appeal to the middle class and be more welcoming to minorities. Since last year's election, the Republican Party's political leaders offered a blueprint of how they can rebuild the party after disappointing across-the-board 2012 losses, proposing a retooled platform that would better appeal to the middle class and be more welcoming to minorities. Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:57pm |
Who Is Medea Benjamin, and Why Is She So Good at Heckling Public Officials?Medea Benjamin heckles. A lot. Not only did she interrupt the president during his speech on national security issues Thursday, she has also abruptly stopped the speeches of Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, and the confirmation hearing of CIA administrator John Brennan. If there's an Occupy rally or a Republican convention, she'll probably be there, to speak out on antiwar issues. Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:44pm |
Obama’s 20 Steps to CounterterrorismIn his first major counterterrorism address of his second term, President Obama outlined several steps that his administration will take to fight terrorism both at home and abroad. “From our use of drones to the detention of terrorist suspects, the decisions we are making now will define the type of nation and world that we leave to our children,” Obama said at National Defense University on Thursday. Here is how the president plans to address this complicated issue: Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:04pm |
Top Oversight Democrat: Forcing Lois Lerner Back to Hill 'a Partisan Exercise in Futility'Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Thursday that forcing embattled IRS official Lois Lerner, who invoked her constitutional right to refuse to testify this week, back to Capitol Hill for a second time “seems more like a partisan exercise in futility." Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 3:21pm |
Republican Trio Wants More Questions Answered on BenghaziSens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., won’t drop it. Despite the White House’s release of Benghazi e-mails that it says show the administration was not playing politics with a security tragedy, the Republican trio has a long list of additional questions, all carrying serious political implications. Here’s what McCain, Graham, and Ayotte say they still don’t know: Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 2:57pm |
