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Former Sen. Warren B. Rudman, who co-authored a ground-breaking budget balancing law, championed ethics and led a commission that predicted the danger of homeland terrorist attacks before 9/11, has died. He was 82.

Note: The following text is a quote: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-delegation-bethlehem-attend-palestine-investment-conference Home • Briefing Room • Statements & Releases The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 01, 2010 Presidential Delegation to Bethlehem to Attend the Palestine Investment Conference President Barack Obama today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to Bethlehem to attend the Palestine Investment Conference from June 2-4, 2010. The Honorable George Mitchell, Special Envoy for Middle East Peace will lead the delegation. Members of the Presidential Delegation: The Honorable Neal Wolin, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Mr. Daniel Rubinstein, American Consul General in Jerusalem Mr....

Is he pro-life or pro-choice? That was the giant unknown hanging in the balance one day in 1990 as President George H. W. Bush nominated a mystery man named David Souter for a Supreme Court seat. Both sides of the abortion issue badly wanted answers. I remember those debates, and especially the uncertainty. America got its answer in 1992 in Casey v. Planned Parenthood, a seminal decision bearing the name of Pennsylvania’s pro-life Democrat governor. In that landmark case, Justice David Souter was the decisive swing vote in the narrow 5-4 majority, enshrining Roe v. Wade as law of the...

Former Republican Sens. John Danforth of Missouri and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire are running the McCain-Palin 2008 Honest and Open Election Committee, and, according to them, they are running scared – scared of all the registration mischief out in the field that may just drop a bomb on Election 2008. “Our mission is to make sure that everybody who is entitled to vote gets to vote without any intimidation, but also that there is no stuffing at the ballot boxes, no fraudulent voting, and also that the rules are the same for everybody,” announced Danforth at a teleconference with...

Former New Hampshire Sen. Warren Rudman has been tapped by Republican presidential nominee John McCain to co-chair a new campaign committee that will deal with voter fraud issues as the election nears. Rudman and his fellow co-chair, former Missouri Sen. John Danforth, told reporters on a conference call yesterday that voting and registration issues are already surfacing in many states, although New Hampshire was not among them. Rudman said that the election "ought to be decided by voters, not lawyers." The McCain-Palin Honest and Open Election Committee wants to ensure that "every qualified citizen has a right to vote in...

A day after announcing an investigation into the use of proprietary Lockheed Martin documents in an important Air Force rocket program, Boeing is reportedly involved in a lawsuit with a former employee who alleges that a similar incident took place with another space-related program. The Washington Post reported that a former worker sued Boeing, the world's largest aerospace company, for wrongful termination stemming from the discovery of another worker's possession of proprietary Lockheed Martin information related to a satellite contract. See the Washington Post story. Boeing spokesman Dan Beck said the company couldn't comment on the case. But he did...

<p>WASHINGTON -- As a presidential candidate, John F. Kerry has repeatedly railed against the corruptive influence of special-interest money in politics, and has proudly declared on various occasions that he is the only or first person elected to the US Senate three times without taking campaign contributions from political action committees.</p>

<p>After former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's forceful critique of the State Department's ineffectiveness last week, The Washington Post reported that department officials were jumping into "foxholes" — expecting further incoming fire. But, after senior State Department officials issued a few rude comments about Mr. Gingrich (and extracted from the White House a pro forma endorsement statement of the State Department's sterling qualities), Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told his minions it was safe to come out and play in the sunlight. "Ah, to be so fortunate as to pick your enemies," he self-satisfyingly observed.</p>

Gingrich has been critical of the State Department recently, which was picked up by the media. Gingrich was on H&C yesterday, and said that he commissioned the Hart-Rudman commission in the 90s, and that commission also came up with the conclusion that there are problems in the State Department, so this is not new with Powell. The media seems to have ignored this part, and even the White House was said to be unhappy about it. Here are some excerpts from that report: The Department of State is a crippled institution that is starved for resources by Congress because of...

WASHINGTON -- The United States remains "dangerously unprepared" to deal with another major terrorist attack, said a report by former top government officials, academics and business leaders. "In all likelihood, the next attack will result in even greater casualties and widespread disruption to American lives and the economy" than the Sept. 11 attacks, said the task force chaired by former Sens. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H. The report was released late Thursday. Because a year has passed without a major terrorist attack against the United States, the report says, "there are already signs that Americans are lapsing back...