Word: congress
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ordered a Bush-style troop surge in Afghanistan. Warrantless wiretaps of Americans are still allowed. "Don't ask, don't tell" continues to ruin military careers, and Guantánamo is still open and booming. Unless Obama attacks these issues and leads or drags his Democratic colleagues in Congress into doing the same, his Administration may be seen someday as a curious pause before the Second Reagan Era. Holmes Brannon Woodland Park, Colo...
...President Obama ran into a stone wall of Republican opposition. But didn't the Democrats have a filibuster-proof Congress they meant to ram down the throats of those who objected, for whatever reason? Your article made it seem as if the Republicans were the only bad guys, when actually it was all of them. Alan Cannon Sr. Anderson...
...obviously thought about this a lot, and I believe that the major decisions we made were the right ones. But I've got a list of things that I would like to have done better. For instance, when we sent the Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP] proposal to Congress, it was a three-page outline. It was not intended to be a complete request. It was intended to be a starting point for negotiation. I wish now we had said that...
John Murtha, who died on Feb. 8 at 77, will be mourned in Congress because of the respect he commanded from his colleagues. We were honored to call him colleague; I was privileged to call him friend...
...SWIFT agreement, they proved that they were not shy about exercising their new powers. Dutch lawmaker Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, who led the Parliament's attack on the deal, said if the Obama Administration had proposed such a data-sharing arrangement in the U.S., "we all know what the U.S. Congress would say, don't we?" German lawmaker Martin Schulz was even more vocal, saying the U.S. "wrongly thought it could deal with the European Parliament like Gulliver with the Lilliputians...