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.
I was born in Missouri and it looks like things are in a good way back in the show me state.
One of the five planks of new House Speaker Steve Tilley’s Show Me Solutions initiative is to stop the state from administering driver’s tests in any language other than English.
Critics say that road safety may not be the only motivation behind the initiative, as Tilley claims. But others thinks it’s a great idea.
Says Rep. John Cauthorn (R-Mexico): “The average guy on the street hates Spanish, and it is everywhere. To the average guy, that is important. We are almost to the point of losing our identity as a nation.”
This is kind of hilarious. For whatever reason*, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) didn’t get sworn in with other House members yesterday, but proceeded to cast votes on the crucial Rules Committee where he sits. Since Sessions wasn’t sworn, those votes aren’t valid and Republicans are having to go to Nancy Pelosi to ask Democrats for an after-the-fact blessing of everything they did with Sessions’ invalid vote.
*Sessions was actually at an event for a Republican colleague in the Capitol complex. They figured if they raised their right hand while the oath was administered on TV monitor, it’d be all good. Picture here.
