Post Tagged with: "Republican filibuster"

June 28, 2010 05:29

Republicans Won’t Rule Out Filibuster of Kagan Over Liberalism, Inexperence

Pointing out that Elena Kagan has the least amount of judicial experience of any Supreme Court nominee in the last 50 years, Sen. Jeff Sessions and other leading Republicans are not ruling out a Senate filibuster to block the nomination.

January 20, 2010 13:11

Obama to Nationalize Student Lending with Pending Budget Bill

Is this Venezuela?
According to the Department of Education, 14.3 million of the 17.5 million student loans were federally subsidized for the 2009-2010 fiscal year. Under Obama’s plan, the government would consume the entirety of this industry – a total of $103 billion in 2009-2010.