Posted on 11/01/2005 5:12:40 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 Calendars for the House Majority and Roll Call Votes can be found here.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT (aka The Dept. of Defense)
This is putting a spring back in my step.
He's my favorite Senator ...
I hadn't thought of that...but, you are probably right. Especially since it involves Fat Timmy!
Sessions is my favorite also...
Remember, also, these are two of the Senators that have voted AGAINST everyone of the "bad" amendments lately, Warner's and McCain's...
LOL----I bet Kerry has sent out an SOS...too Harry Reid to bail him out.
Nice to see some Senators speking in this matter of life and death. Now comes the common sense part of the argument, which is why I was convinced Saddam had lots of bad stuff. I still think he did.
Ya'll know speking=speaking, right?
I just heard that O'Reilly is going to have a CIA agent on his radio show that will say that America does NOT have the will to win...
and that we will be attacked again, by a Russian supplied nuclear weapon....sounds uplifting, huh???
Well, isn't that just great to hear.
I have always thought he had them....and after finding out that Rockefeller gave Syria the news long before Bush did...I am sure Syria contacted Saddam...and they arranged for them to be kept in Syria...
I believe it MORE now...after hearing Rockefeller's stupid remarks last Sunday.
Ick...O'Reilly is saying we aren't fighting to win...we are fighting like we did in Vietnam...
I hate that Man...
Good...Kyl is speaking up for Rummy, Wolfowitz and others...smackdown!
Kyl is talking about Murkowski and Craig...on his side..ouch!
O'Reilly just said we don't have the will to win...like we did when we dropped the bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima...
So...he thinks we don't want to win enough...because we haven't dropped the big bombs on Baghdad and Tehran and in Syria.
O'Reilly so often wanders into the realm of the ridiculous. Notwithstanding the frequency with which we see the "nuke 'em" remark (and I understand the sentiment), there is a general agreement among civilized nations that it is really not something we want to be doing. That could change, I suppose, if someone manages to actually drop a nuclear bomb on an American city, but for now there is rightly a great aversion to using nuclear weapons.
I agree....I think there are too many places we would have to bomb in order to even get half of these terrorists..they live in caves...and in every country.
O'Reilly is thinking of the OLD WARS---when the combatants wore uniforms...and cared about their country...these people have no country!
BTW...O'REilly was talking about an article that was written by that Scheurer guy that wrote that book as "Anonymous", while still a CIA agent.
Sadly .. I think that may happen and be the only thing that will wake folks up about this WOT
We did not lose battles in Vietnam
The lost battles were at home by the media and politicians
You are probably right...it just seems like everyone has forgotten 9/11.
I just saw a second of an interview with Murtha on MSNBC>...and Murtha said he feels like he has to "speak up to save these young people"...he was talking about our troops...
BUT, Nora O'Donnell didn't ask him about the really young people HERE, who won't have a future, if we don't stay there and finish this fight...
I really want to know what Murtha thinks would happen if we surrender. Does he thing the Islamofascists will just go home and start selling real estate, cars or open restaurants?
I don't find anyone in the Congress or the Administration who has called Murtha a coward, but captainsquartersblog.com makes exactly that charge. I happen to agree with it, but I do think all of the politicians will be way to careful to say it. I hope that the next time Kerry says it, someone calls him on it. It is a false as all of the rest of their ridiculous charges.
Yes...I think we, Hugh Hewitt, Captain's Quarters, etc...can and should call em as we see them.
I have been calling many of the Congresscritters "unpatriotic" for weeks now...and now I will also call some cowards...
Murtha and Kerry come to mind.
But, you are correct...our politicians cannot.
I was very disappointed that when Kyl stood up for Rummy, Wolfowitz, and Feith, he didn't also stand up for Hastert and ask Kerry to prove that Hastert called Murtha a coward.
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