Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Scott Nance
If healthcare reform is shaping up as the equivalent of political combat in the Senate, then consider the issue of climate change as its Cold War.
Legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions through a new cap-and-trade system has languished in the Senate for the better part of a year. The bill has gone nowhere, despite the [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2010 by Pamela Leavey
Four more Democratic Senators signed on to the push for a vote for the public option today, including Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. The following is an email sent out today via BoldProgressives.org:
Senator John Kerry did Massachusetts proud today.
The DC pundits are telling Democrats to cave to Republicans and big corporations in the name of “bipartisanship.”
But [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2010 by Pamela Leavey
Buried in the Boston Globe today, hidden under the big story of the week here in Massachusetts, was this piece about the push by Senator John Kerry to get files involved in decades old civil rights cases released:
Nearly half a century after the height of the civil rights movement, hundreds of thousands of pages of government [...]
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Posted on January 18th, 2010 by Pamela Leavey
The Massachusetts special election to fill the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat is just a mere hours away and tensions are high here in Massachusetts. There’s a lot at stake for Democrats and Republicans who are very much in the minority here have found a candidate who they feel is a winner. needless to say [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2010 by Pamela Leavey
As readers here have no doubt noticed I have been MIA here for some time now. I do spend what free time I can posting links to my Twitter Feed, however, I just don’t have much time to write here. I wanted to chime in today though and share this email just received from Senator [...]
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Posted on December 24th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Senator John Kerry released the following statement today after the Senate’s historic, Christmas Eve passage of comprehensive health care reform:
“This is a big step towards finally making affordable accessible health care a reality for every American,” said Sen. Kerry. “It took 60 votes, it took the commitment of a Senate willing to put itself on the line [...]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry released the following statement this evening following President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan:
“I believe that the President defined a narrower mission tonight, not an open-ended nation-building exercise. A key component of that mission is providing that the troops will only clear and hold in places where there is capacity [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
In a speech delivered to the Council on Foreign Relations this afternoon, Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said, General McChrystal’s troop request for Afghanistan “reaches too far, too fast.”
Although Kerry may eventually support a troop surge in Afghanistan he said that “before additional troops are deployed to the country, three [...]
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Posted on October 18th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
In an interview that aired this morning on CNN, Senator John Kerry cautioned President Obama “against raising troop levels in Afghanistan, saying it would be “entirely irresponsible” to do so while the Afghan government remains in turmoil following national elections.”
Speaking from Afghanistan, Kerry, who is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the [...]
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Posted on October 1st, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
There’s speculation in the WaPo today that Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, may be prepared to “buck” the Obama Administration if his “fact-finding leads him to conclude that Afghanistan could turn into another Vietnam.”
Video of Kerry’s interview with Lois Romano of the WaPo is available here and the transcript of [...]
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