Posted on 03/01/2006 6:27:28 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)
Nothing seems to get them more excited than legislation that affects them, although this is mostly bandaids and sticking plaster, except for the part that attempts to make grassroots efforts harder.
LOL....right now there isn't much to miss....
Although it is kind of entertaining watching Harry Reid gesturing wildly with Schumer...I really wish I knew what was going on!!
LOL!
I just saw a thread about how Hillary sent out a letter to her constituents stating that she thinks that "illegal immigrants that haven't broken the law"...should be able to stay in the USA...
First of all, that is not possible...illegals that haven't broken the law...
Second, wasn't she supposedly going to the RIGHT on this issue last year....wanting the borders closed and illegals sent back???
It's hard to pick a position when you don't really have any convictions.
MONTANA: Conrad Burns woke up to a front page headline in Roll Call that read Links to Burns Paid Off. The story outlines how former aides to Conrad Burns have, for the past ten years, used their connections to Burns and institutions associated with Burns to secure over $20 million in lobbying fees for themselves, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in research contracts, tax breaks and subsidies for clients. High tech and telecommunications firms such as Microsoft and Lockheed Martin have paid lobbying fees to at least nine of Burns former aides.Bigtime lefty site, "From The Roots :: Pulling the Bush Out."
MONTANA: Conrad Burns is apparently addicted to lobbyists. A new report reveals that Burns formed a non-profit group headed by his former chief of staff turned lobbyist to promote international trade with an emphasis on high tech and telecommunications. The chief of staffs lobbying clients include communications companies such as Nextel and AT&T. Burns sits on the Commerce Committee and used to chair its Communications Subcommittee, with jurisdiction over telecommunications law. Ethics experts said the move is problematic and rare, since the group the U.S.-Asia Network is run out of the former staffers lobbying firm and has Burns as its chairman. Burns has called the group one of his top priorities. Meanwhile, a study on Montanas two senators found questionable hiring of lobbyists for top staff positions by Burns. Burns is the only one of the two senators to hire lobbyists and start a nonprofit group with lobbyists.
Any leads on sites that do reasonably good senate coverage? NRO Corner hits a few a points, I know, but is more issues oriented.
She's made a political calculation that for HER, more votes if she panders to the illegals.
If both parties do so, it must be the right thing, eh?
That monster is insane...
there is nothing human about her...can you imagine being Chelsea? To have a father that is just a scumbag with $$$$$, nothing more than a pig in a suit.....and them your mother is this unfeeling, calculating, machine.....I would seriously feel any of their "love" and attention was just out of political suicide if they didn't.......
She might be just like her mother by now... who knows... but as a little girl growing up with these folks... wow...
they literally break law after law after law.. they think nothing of it.. they know they can DO ANYTHING....the are the most dangerous couple in America- and the media has created this....even the DEMS (in DC) know these people are a serious threat......
March 8, 2006THIRTY-FIVE YEARS ago today, a group of anonymous activists broke into the small, two-man office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Media, Pa., and stole more than 1,000 FBI documents that revealed years of systematic wiretapping, infiltration and media manipulation designed to suppress dissent.
The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, as the group called itself, forced its way in at night with a crowbar while much of the country was watching the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight. When agents arrived for work the next morning, they found the file cabinets virtually emptied. ...
Found among the Media documents was a new word, "COINTELPRO," short for the FBI's "secret counterintelligence program," created to investigate and disrupt dissident political groups in the U.S. Under these programs, beginning in 1956, the bureau worked to "enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles," as one COINTELPRO memo put it, "to get the point across there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox."
The Media documents -- along with further revelations about COINTELPRO in the months and years that followed -- made it clear that the bureau had gone beyond mere intelligence-gathering to discredit, destabilize and demoralize groups -- many of them peaceful, legal civil rights organizations and antiwar groups -- that the FBI and Director J. Edgar Hoover found offensive or threatening.
For instance, agents sought to persuade Martin Luther King Jr. to kill himself just before he received the Nobel Prize. They sent him a composite tape made from bugs planted illegally in his hotel rooms when he was entertaining women other than his wife -- and threatened to make it public. "King, there is one thing left for you to do. You know what it is," FBI operatives wrote in their anonymous letter.
LA Times : A break-in to end all break-ins
By Allan M. Jalon
Hey...you are the king of sources...if you don't know about it...it probably doesn't exist.
Heh. Hardly. The only thing I do, that most posters don't, is cite my references. About 90% of what I post is new to me, too.
Yep
I met Joe Frazier once when I was a teenager hanging out at the shopping center with friends
Joe and his buddy were drunk off there ...es
I read the whole link you posted about that break in....
Ironic that Sen. Church was involved at the end...he was the one that we have to thank for practically zero humint intelligence in the countries that we are now having to spar with over WMDS...
Those, though, that would want to draw a line from that to the NSA wiretapping should instead take a detour to the Barrett Report....where people's IRS files were used for nefarious reasons by the Clinton adminstration...
Torricelli principle plays heavy in the shortage of HUMINT. That was a few years later. I'd have to dig deep in my posting history to find the references. There was no law, I remember that, and the "pullback" was related to a killing in Central or South America. Here's one link, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/522426/posts.
Those, though, that would want to draw a line from that to the NSA wiretapping should instead take a detour to the Barrett Report....where people's IRS files were used for nefarious reasons by the Clinton adminstration...
Clinton's did bad things, so it's okay that Hoover did?
The irony is that it took an illegal act to uncover COINTELPRO. It took a leak (probably not an illegal act) to uncover Clinton having FBI files, and it took a leak (at the policy level, probably not criminal, but job-loss) to uncover the NSA terrorist surveillance program.
I personally think most government is a pretty thin charade that aims to give the appearance of transparency. The masses are easily manipulated and lead.
LOL....that is funny...it could have been another "Down goes Frazier" story..
BTW...what do you think the verdict is....is work done for the day? Have the Senators taken their toys and gone home?
I don't think I excused either case in my post, did I?
Nope. I was just projecting a response to a common argument raised against trying to monitor and/or regulate what the administration does. Common argument being "Hillary! has done and would impose measures intrusive to privacy."
And yes, I'm clear on the difference between doing so for obviously political motives vs. doing what Hoover did, which was try to save the country from Commies. The Church Committee hearings are eerily parallel with the NSA action, with a good number of Senators not wanting to "go there" out of fear of exposing a righteous government program.
I think my only point is that the line drawing isn't easy; and no matter where it's drawn, "trust" carries a commensurate measure of risk.
Yes....I agree with you....but, just judging from what is happening (or not happening, in this case), you can see that our Senators aren't brave enough, apolitical enough, or even mature enough...to tackle the "hard questions"...
So...I fear that while we wait to see what a Congressional debate might conclude re: wiretapping foreign calls to/from and American without warrants....our country will already be in the hands of al-queda...
They have GOT to be laughing at Congress' inability to see past it's own election cycle.
Well, it has been almost 3 HOURS since the dueling quorum calls were NOT allowed to be stopped...
So...what do we think is being done?? Anything, or has everyone just gone back to their offices...and not a dang thing is getting accomplished, yet again today?
Care to speculate??
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