Topic: Sheldon Whitehouse
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If history is any indication, lawmakers will do much, if not most, of the talking at Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's Senate confirmation hearing, set to begin on Monday.Here's a look at some of those on the 19-member Senate ...
Some senators are queasy over a potential contempt-of-Congress showdown with the Bush administration over the U.S. attorney firings. Not Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who sat down with TPMmuckraker in his Senate offices this morning.Whitehouse said that the Bush administration has "redrawn the line" ...
Hear that? Those are the hosannas of civil libertarians. The Senate Judiciary Committee, by a single vote, passed a surveillance bill yesterday. And it doesn't include retroactive legal immunity for telecommunications companies that complied with the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance programs. Since ...
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Tax Cuts
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Gulf Oil Spill
Senate Oversight subcommittee Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., questions EPA assistant administrator ...AP News - -
Kagan Supreme Court
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