President Obama issues signing statement calling new law banning the transfer of Gitmo detainees “a dangerous and unprecedented challenge to critical executive branch authority.”
Senate Republicans: Please, oh please, don’t throw us into the filibuster reform briar patch.
We told you earlier this week that Saudi Arabia had taken an Israeli vulture into custody and accused the bird of being an Israeli spy. The bird was tagged with a transmitter labeled “Tel Aviv University”. Now avian ecologist Ohad Hatzofe is asking if he can have his bird back.
Rep. Steve King (R) lauds Speaker Boehner’s ‘mendacity’, says it’s beyond reproach.
Anti-immigration advocates propose new second-class form of US citizenship.
The 111th Congress ended on a high note for scandal watchers with the Rangel ‘trial’ and censure. And now we’ve got the first genuine scandal of the 112th Congress. Meet the man at the center of it: Rep. David Rivera (R-FL).
By a vote of 257 to 159, the GOP-controlled House has voted to wipe clean the ultra vires votes cast by the not-yet-sworn Reps. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) — who apparently thought raising their right hands in front of a TV monitor off the House floor was good enough.
But there’s still the issue of whether the event that Sessions and Fitzpatrick were attending instead of getting sworn in was a fundraiser, which are prohibited in the Capitol itself.
More on that to come …
House Democrats apparently refuse to give their blessing retroactively to the votes Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) took after skipping the swearing-in ceremony forcing Republicans to scramble to come up with another way to undo the mess Sessions created.
President Obama will name Gene Sperling to be the director of the National Economic Council, replacing Larry Summers.