Thursday, Jan 20, 2005
3:00 p.m.: Convene and begin a period of morning business.
Thereafter, begin consideration of cabinet nominations.
Ex-Klansman Blocks Condi's Confirmation (Robert Byrd Alert)
PING...
Posted on 01/04/2005 4:53:00 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Since "Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America.", I and others think it's a good idea to centralize what the goes on in the Senate (or House).
So if you see something happening on the Senate/House floor and you don't want to start a new thread to ask if anyone else just heard what you heard, you can leave a short note on who said what and about what and I'll try and find it the next day in THE RECORD. Or if you see a thread that pertains to the Senate, House, or pretty much any GOV'T agency please link your thread here.
If you have any suggestions for this thread please feel free to let me know.
Here's a few helpful links.
C-SPAN what a great thing. Where you can watch or listen live to most Government happenings.
C-SPAN 1 carries the HOUSE.
C-SPAN 2 carries the SENATE.
C-SPAN 3 (most places web only) carries a variety of committee meetings live or other past programming.
OR FEDNET has online feed also.
A great thing about our Government is they make it really easy for the public to research what the Politicians are doing and saying (on the floor anyway).
THOMAS where you can see a RECORD of what Congress is doing each day. You can also search/read a verbatim text of what each Congressmen/women or Senator has said on the floor or submitted 'for the record.' [This is where the real juicy stuff can be found.]
Also found at Thomas are Monthly Calendars for the Senate Majority and Senate Minority
And Monthly Calendar for the House Majority
Roll Call Votes can be found here.
Congress.org <<< Good resource
THE WAR DEPARTMENT (aka The Dept. of Defense)
Yeah, I got him on.
I heard something about the turkeys. I thought it was a member of congress though.
See post #40
I messed up ... sorry
I had to go to my granddaughters school and haved lunch with her today, so I am not up on why there is no Senate and House session today---
Do you know why?
BTW, thanks for the ping, as usual---
Loved the turkey story
I think it may have been due to the Matsui Congressional Memorial Service
Thank you very much--now back to the thread about Bimbo Boxer!!!!
J.D. Hayworth was just on in the House and was hilarious. Calling it the Boxer Rebellion.
541 posted on 01/06/2005 11:12:09 AM EST by Bahbah
Q What are you looking to achieve in the near term, here,
besides the spread of freedom and democracy, in terms of strategy in
the war on terror?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I just talked to you about what our strategy
is. Our strategy is to go after and bring to justice those who seek to
do us harm. Taking the fight to the enemy is at the top of our
strategy to win the war on terrorism. Right along there with it is
working to advance and support freedom in parts of the world that have
not known freedom. And that's what we'll continue to do. We're
achieving significant results in terms of dismantling the al Qaeda
network. We've made great progress there. We're seeing historic -- an
historic and hopeful moment in the broader Middle East with elections
taking place in Afghanistan, with elections coming up in Iraq, and with
an election of a new Palestinian President in the Middle East.
Q Right, but other than Iraq, where is the enemy now? Where are you concentrating your efforts?
MR. McCLELLAN: It's a multi-front effort, John. There are a number of ways we're going after the enemy, from cracking down on
terrorist financing to working with other nations to share intelligence
and act on that intelligence. We're also working from a military
standpoint to go after those who seek to do us harm, whether it's in
Afghanistan or Iraq or elsewhere.
Q But -- it's all kind of ephemeral now. I mean, you could
point to Afghanistan before and say, here's where the terrorists are;
you could point to Indonesia and say, here's where Jemma Islamiya is.
But, as I say, it's kind of ephemeral. We don't really -- where is the
enemy these days?
MR. McCLELLAN: John, I'll give you an update. The enemy is the ideology of hatred and oppression that people espouse. That's what we're up against. We're working to defeat an ideology of hatred and oppression. And you do that by going after the terrorists, who have no regard for rule of law, no regard for innocent civilians, and all they seek to do is spread chaos and fear and intimidation.
You also do it by working to provide hope and freedom to those who have only seen tyranny and oppression. And that's what we're going to
continue working to do in a global effort. There are many nations
involved around the world in the global war on terrorism, and we have
many partners, and we're going to continue to build upon those
relationships. We've worked to build those relationships over the last
few years. We've provided you a significant amount of information in
terms of how we're working to win the war on terrorism.
One other effort that is very important to this, because the nexus between weapons of mass destruction and terrorists is the most
dangerous threat of our times -- that's why the President initiated the
proliferation security initiative, with a number of countries who are
working to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction. That was a
significant initiative. We've also been able to dismantle the networks
like the A.Q. Khan network, and that was an important achievement in
the global war on terrorism and making the world a safer and better
place.
"No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session." -- Mark Twain
"There is no distinctive native American criminal class, except Congress." -- Mark Twain
C-SPAM only gives these creatures more opportunities to preen before an audience.
Thursday, Jan 20, 2005
3:00 p.m.: Convene and begin a period of morning business.
Thereafter, begin consideration of cabinet nominations.
Thanks
Thanks for the heads up!
BUMP!
They're on!
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