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Partying with Hillary: "Greatest experience"
Spin CycleChuck Schumer threw a farewell party for Hillary last night. An account of the misty-eyed lovefest -- not dissimilar from her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, except for the absence of stinky Republican guy......Tags: International Military Interventions, Death, Iraq War (2003-2011), Wars and Interventions, Social Issues
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Hillary: Approved, 16-1
Spin CycleHillary Clinton is endorsed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 16-1, forwarding her nomination to the Senate floor. The only nay vote: Prostitute-lovin' Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, who had reservations about conflicts of interest with Bill's...Tags: Louisiana, Hillary Clinton
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Hillary Clinton confirmed: Senate panel
The Swampby Mark Silva The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today recommended confirmation of the nomination of Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York as secretary of state. The vote was 16-1. The full Senate still must confirm Clinton as President-elect Barack Obama'...Tags: Louisiana, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Upper House, John Kerry
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Naked Ambition
Spin CycleWhich was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion by a power player? 1. Yankees President Randy Levine, telling a lawmaker who questioned more taxpayer borrowing breaks for the new stadium: ???Your behavior in this entire matter is worthy of the......Tags: Hillary Clinton, National Government, United States, Government
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Hillary Clinton confirmed to State Dept.
The Swampby Frank James Senators tend to take care of their own and today they took care of Hillary Clinton, voting 94 to 2 to confirm her as President Obama's secretary of state. The two Republican senators who voted against her?......Tags: Louisiana, Hillary Clinton, National Government, Politics, Jim DeMint
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Burris ouster by Senate looks unlikely
The SwampSen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.), leaves a press conference outside Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty) by Frank James and Mike Dorning Now that Sen. Roland Burris has acknowledged that he indeed tried....Tags: Politics, Corporate Crime, Alaska, Crime, Law and Justice, Upper House
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Burris Senate expulsion no time soon
The Swampby David G. Savage Though Roland Burris had some trouble being admitted to the U.S. Senate, he will not be easily expelled now that he has arrived. It takes a vote of two-thirds of the senators to oust a member,......Tags: Politics, Corporate Crime, Regional Authority, Alaska, Executive Branch
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Burris should resign: sex-scandal senator
The SwampSen. David Vitter, R-La., and wife Wendy in July 2007. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (This posting has changed since it was first posted.) by Frank James Sen. David Vitter (R-Hypocrisy), that paragon of moral virtue from Louisiana probably best......Tags: Louisiana, Health, Rod Blagojevich, Diseases and Illnesses, Illinois
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Southern conservatives like their pork
The Swampby Frank James Taxpayers for Common Sense has e-mailed reporters its database of earmarks in the omnibus $420 billion spending bill currently being debated in the Senate and here's one conclusion to draw from it: Republican senators from the South......Tags: Louisiana, Iowa, Politics, Upper House, Taxpayers for Common Sense
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Sen. Vitter goes plane crazy
The SwampDavid, you did WHAT at the airport? by James Oliphant Can't get enough David Vitter stories? Good. Neither can we. You remember Vitter, the Louisiana senator who famously copped to be a client of the "D.C. Madam"--the escort service......Tags: Louisiana, Air Transportation Industry, United Air Lines, Politics, Prosecution
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Vitter's FEMA bar: No politics, just money
The Swampby Mark Silva Sen. David Vitter swears his objections to the Obama administration's appointment of a new FEMA director have nothing to do with politics -- in an email which conveniently links readers to a fundraising appeal for the Republican......Tags: Florida, Louisiana, Jeb Bush, Natural Disasters, White House
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Ensign affair: Showstopper? Slate-clean?
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 1:20 pm EDT In an era when a senior Republican senator from Idaho is undone by a toe-tapping stop at an airport's men's room and a popular Democratic governor from New York loses his......Tags: Louisiana, White House, Politics, Executive Branch, Upper House
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