The Senate has effectively axed for the time being the vote on the controversial “DREAM” Act, which passed the House yesterday with the support of 8 Republicans (6 of them “lame duck” Republicans). Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hopes that a vote will come up before the Congressional recess, but there’s no guarantee that will happen.
Well, we shouldn’t expect much else from the guy who promised as a candidate to heal the planet, should we? Via Fox News:
It’s official: Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) has become the 23rd Congressman to be censured by his House colleagues:
The Politico reports today on how soon-to-be-House Speaker John Boehner plans to try and shake up the appropriations process as soon as the 112th Congress convenes in January (via Memeorandum):
At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey writes about the efforts of the Republican minority in the Senate to defeat the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to gain via regulation what the environmental left couldn’t achieve via legislation: a cap-and-trade system and other onerous, economy killing “environmental” regulations. Their strategy involves the use of a little known procedure created in the 90s, called the Congressional Review Act. Ed quotes from a Politico article; see if you can spot the problem:
With the recent swearing in of Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk, the GOP now has 42 Senators – and all 42 are flexing their muscles in giving Senate Democrats an ultimatum on extending the Bush tax cuts before the end of the year:
