Planned Parenthood will award Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tonight with the Margaret Sanger Award, the group's highest honor. The award will be presented at PPFA's gala dinner as part of it's national conference in Houston.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has launched a $150,000 TV ad buy in the final weekend of the New York special election.
The ad, like a Democratic National Committee (DNC) ad that was just launched, ties Democrat Scott Murphy to President Obama in a positive way and notes that Obama has endorsed Murphy.
It accuses Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco of opposing Obama
If there was ever any doubt that fictional President Jed Bartlet's administration was pro-labor, the answer is now clear.
Actors Martin Sheen, Bradley Whitford, and Richard Schiff -- all of the fictional NBC presidential drama "The West Wing -- will appear at an event in Congress on Tuesday seeking to bolster support for the Employee Free Choice Act ("card check").
Sheen (President Jed Bartlet), Whitford (Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman), and Schiff (Communications Director Toby Ziegler) will meet with Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and other lawmakers in meetings on the Hill.
The event is being coordinated by organized labor groups, including American Rights at Work, AFL-CIO, and Change to Win.
The Obama administration is exploiting the economic crisis to push through a budget that grows the size of government, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) alleged Friday.
"I think what's really occurring is rather than solving the economic crisis, I think this budget exploits the economic crisis -- and grows the size and involvement of our government in levels that are just really historic," Ryan told National Public Radio in an interview.
Ryan said the Obama adminstration wants their budget to be seen as a new New Deal, like the sweeping economic plans put in place under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"That's what President Obama is saying about his budget
C-SPAN video library caught this great exchange yesterday between Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and committee member Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
As they were negotiating a provision in the the Senate FY 2010 budget, Grassley tried to cash in a chit with Conrad, leading to this exchange:
GRASSLEY: "You remember, you asked me two years ago not to take a vote on it and you said if we did take a vote on it you might not get your budget resolution adopted. And so I did not ask for a vote on it and you said it was a very statesman-like thing for me to do at that particular time. And so I would hope you would return the favor."
CONRAD. "You know, I used to like you. Oh, you are good."
GRASSLEY: "Your wife said the same thing."
Check out the video below.
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Republican New York Assemblyman Jim Tedisco on Friday morning disputed a new poll that shows he is trailing Democrat Scott Murphy in the special election for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's (D-N.Y.) former House seat.
The Siena Research poll found Murphy leading Tedisco by four points - 47 percent to 43 percent.
Tedisco said his campaign's internal polling shows he continues to lead as next Tuesday's election approaches.
Thanx to Obama Afgan strategy Demo Sen that wantd pullout timeline in [Iraq] now say no Afgan timeline Finally reconize u don't tell [enemy] your stratgy
The rhetoric about political ownership is reminiscent of the so-called "Pottery Barn rule" touted by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, who warned President Bush about the dangers of going to war in Iraq. The idea is that if the president "breaks" a country, so-to-speak, he "owns" the country.
Still locked in a recount battle with Al Franken, quasi-Senator Norm Coleman received some bad news today regarding another legal matter.
Coleman had been accused of accepting financial support from a campaign contributor via donations to his wife's business. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported today on new testimony from the investigation into those allegations:
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