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The Washington Post reports: “The Justice Department is close to approving guidelines that would allow the intelligence community to lengthen the period of time it retains information about U.S. residents, even if they have no known connection to terrorism. Senior U.S. officials said the changes would allow the National Counterterrorism Center, the intelligence community’s Continue reading The Orwellian Effect We need to do two things between now and next November. We need to find new candidates for the jobs of those in Congress that we are going to vote out of office. And we need to vote out of office any incumbant who is currently in Congress because individually and collectively they have Continue reading NEED WE SAY MORE? Unfortunately there is an intellectual disconnect between some members of the United States Air Force and the dignity of treating our war dead with honor. Here’s the story from the Washington Post: “The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the Continue reading Our War Dead I was reading the Washington Post yesterday and there was an article that immediately caught my eye. In an article written by Dan Eggen, a Post staff writer says: “The members of this year’s freshman class in Congress are far wealthier than the people they represent. He sites that “the center of Responsive Continue reading Net Worth
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Filabuster – Present and Past
The rules of the United State Senate permit a member or even a group of members to speak as long as they wish on any topic they choose.
Other members can bring the filibuster to an end by invoking cloture. Three-fifths of the Senators must vote of cloture.
On the House side they used
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