Senate Coverage -- (September '05)

Thomas ^ | 9-02-05 | US CONGRESS

[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.

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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 Calendars for the House Majority and Roll Call Votes can be found here.

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OTHER LINKS

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Congress.org

The Founders' Constitution

THE WHITE HOUSE

THE WAR DEPARTMENT (aka The Dept. of Defense)

LIVE DoD Briefings

NEWSEUM: TODAY'S FRONT PAGES

THE HILL

CNSNEWS

CANADIAN PARLIAMENT

[A Citizen Reporter]

He's propping up the mayor.

[Mo1]

I don't remember a CAT 4 hurricane hitting a major metropolitan area during clinton's presidency. Do you?

Not that I recall

Howlin might know more

Oh great .. Dodd is up know yapping

[defconw]

Is there no end to the Dimrats? Did they tie our guys up? Chris Dodd now bur at least he is talking about that with which he is familiar, gas!

[Mo1]

He says that no one wanted the people from NO

That can't be true .. I don't remember hearing that


Oh oh .. now Geraldo says he is a Liberal Republican

[defconw]

Don't get me wrong, Geraldo is not one of my favorites, but he is defending George Bush thus far.

[Mo1]

Maybe Mike Brown is a putz? But I think it's Blanco and Nagin who deserve most of the blame along, with the over all ignorance and corruption of the local officials.

Brown and FEMA's mistake was trusting the Officials of NOLA knew what the heck they were doing and were able to communicate to FEMA on the things they needed

[defconw]

So why doesn't Dodd STHU and go get on the phone and raise some money for them!

[defconw]

True and if Bush did fire him, how long would it be before we could get another guy confirmed by the Senate, 2-3 years?

[Mo1]

Hey Dodd .. maybe if NOLA had their act together BEFORE the storm .. there would be more attention of states that got nailed by the hurricane

[A Citizen Reporter]

"now Geraldo says he is a Liberal Republican"

Yeah, isn't that a stitch? We had enough 'posers' in the party during the 2000 election. Now we got FLAT OUT LIERS!

[defconw]

Would someone please tell Senator Dodd that if the environmental wackos did not insist on so many stupid regulations and their weren't so many crooks in New Orleans, we might not be having this problem! I am going back to watching the casket!

[defconw]

Good Gracious Tropical storm headed for Florida!

[Lovergirl]

WHAT????

[defconw]

As early as tomorrow! ARE THERE NO REPUBLICANS THAT CAN SPEAK? AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH! Now Murray!

[defconw]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT1+shtml/061444.shtml

[Lovergirl]

OSAMA OBAMA now speaking. Be ready for more Bush bashing.

[defconw]

I give up! I am listening to Hannity and watching people pay their respects to Chief Justice Rehnquist! WTH is our team? They better be on the phone raising money and gathering supplies or something!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Read this for some real sickness:

To Those Who Voted for Bush: Do You Get It Now?

[defconw]

Is this going to raise by blood pressure to record highs?

[Lovergirl]

YES.