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Rep.-Elect John James (R-MI) nominated Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for the seventh speakership ballot on Thursday after six separate votes between Tuesday and Wednesday did not result in the election of a speaker of the 118th House of Representatives. James, a freshman and one of the first two black Republican West Point graduates ever elected to the House, along with fellow freshman Rep.-Elect Wesley Hunt (R-TX), told his colleagues, “The work we promised the American people we would do, we’re welching on that promise,” as speaker votes wane on.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Sunday said Republicans “nominated some bad candidates” in the midterm elections after the GOP underperformed on projections of a red wave. Christie said in a roundtable discussion on ABC News that Democrats “got more fired up than people thought and that polls demonstrated.”

TRUMP NOMINATED. NY PUSHES HIM OVER THE TOP

A Donald Trump-Sen. Ted Cruz unity ticket seems less likely now that Cruz told the Good Morning America audience on Monday that he has “zero interest, whatsoever” in being Trump’s pick for vice-president. Bonnie Pointer, who was described as an undecided voter from Vacaville, California, asked Cruz via video, “Would you accept being Donald Trump’s Vice President?” Cruz thanked Bonnie for her question saying, “Let me just answer very simply, I have zero interest, whatsoever, in doing it.”

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2007 – A television special that looks closely at challenges military families face when a parent is deployed has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program. In the Sesame Workshop’s Emmy-nominated, primetime special, “When Parents Are Deployed,” Elmo talks to his dad about his dad’s upcoming deployment. Photo by Richard Termine, used by permission of the copyright holder, Sesame Workshop  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Defense Department officials were thrilled to hear the program, called “When Parents Are Deployed” and produced by Sesame Workshop, received such recognition. “We were delighted to hear...

WASHINGTON, Sep. 1, 2006 – Americans can help the nation’s servicemembers by helping Brittany and Robbie Bergquist and their organization, Cell Phones for Soldiers, win one of three $50,000 Volvo for Life Awards. Cell Phones for Soldiers recycles used cell phones, personal data assistants, iPods and ink printer cartridges, and uses the profits to buy prepaid calling cards for deployed servicemembers. The Bergquists have raised more than $1 million and have distributed more than 100,000 prepaid cards to date. “Winning the Volvo for Life Award would mean that more of our troops can be helped by our organization,” Brittany said...

The Shiite alliance nominated a tough-talking Shiite politician, Jawad al-Maliki, as prime minister in a move that breaks the long impasse over forming a new government aimed at pulling Iraq out of its sectarian strife. -- snip -- Sunni and Kurdish politicians signaled Friday that they would accept al-Maliki -- snip --U.S. and Iraqi officials are hoping that a national unity government representing Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds will be able to quell both the Sunni-led insurgency and bloody Shiite-Sunni violence that has raged during the political uncertainty. If it succeeds, it could enable the U.S. to begin bringing home its...

Democrats Sue To Keep Nader Off Florida Ballot Dems Say Candidate Never Nominated By His Party POSTED: 6:37 pm EDT September 2, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida Democratic party is suing the state and Ralph Nader to keep him off the November ballot, saying that the Reform Party's nomination process was a sham. The suit says the Reform Party is not a viable political party and that Nader was never nominated at a convention, which is required by state law to get on the ballot. Democrats and Republicans agree that Ralph Nader’s presence on the 2000 ballot cost Al...

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was given a vote of confidence from President George W. Bush on Tuesday when he was nominated to serve a fifth term

<p>CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry, promising a "great debate," declared victory in the Democratic presidential race on Tuesday and formally opened the general election campaign with an assault on President Bush's credibility.</p> <p>With a win in Illinois, Kerry acknowledged he had enough delegates to July's nominating convention to claim the right to challenge Bush in November -- a formality given that most delegate counters put him over the top last week.</p>

Robert Byrd, maybe? According to a rumor going around DC right now, the Washington Post is tomorrow going to reveal an internal Democratic Party e-mail with a crude, racist caricature of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown. Justice Brown happens to be a black woman, and apparently this e-mail has her with an absurdly large "afro" style haircut (she doesn't have one), and makes a few disparaging racial remarks about her and, for some reason, Dr. Condoleezza Rice. This staff e-mail (I'm assuming a Senator would not send such an e-mail) comes during Senate confirmation hearings for Justice Brown...

WASHINGTON, September 9 (IslamOnlione.net & News Agencies) – An Indian Islamic leader was nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his commitment to serving and uplifting humanity, according to the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). “Syed Hasan has dedicated over sixty years of his life for the betterment of others, as he is the founder and director of INSAN (Urdu for "Human"), an educational and humanitarian mission based in India.” The INSAN Institute has been promoting for almost 40 years education and educational awareness, educational accessibility to financially disadvantaged, adult literacy, pre-teen/teen marriages, local economy and...

What is Legitimate About the UN?By Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/29/2003 Just flashing across the wires: The UN "Human Rights Commission" has just voted to give Cuba a seat on the commission?!?! And I keep hearing that we need to engage the UN so that American/coalition actions are lent legitimacy. Legitimacy? Cuba just recently arrested and jailed 76 political dissidents, and summarily executed three hijackers (whose crime was trying to escape the Caribbean workers' paradise). The so-called Human Rights Commission refused to condemn Cuba's disregard for morality or common decency. They instead decided to send an "observer" to the island....

<p>A San Francisco judge has been nominated to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the second time this year that the Bush administration selected a Latino for the nation's largest and most controversial federal appeals court.</p> <p>The White House to day announced the nomination of Superior Court Carlos Bea, who must now be confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate. President Bush chose Bea, 68, to fill one of three vacancies on the 28-member 9th Circuit, which interprets law for California and eight other Western states.</p>