the sexual revolution

Bush, even at the federal level, Republican-dominated Supreme Court struck down the last remaining state sodomy laws, and Senate rejected Bush-sponsored to Constitution that would have defined marriage as exclusively heterosexual.. ..

george hw bush, former president, dies in houston tx

In his trademark drawl, former President Lyndon Johnson told Bush the difference between Senate and House is the difference between salad and chicken s---... By capping discretionary spending and raising taxes, Domestically, Bush's accomplishments included bailout of the savings..

next justice should be a liberal

In choosing president and Senate of the same party, American electorate had, in effect, indicated its intention that Senate should be inclined to confirm the president's nominees.. This did not deter presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan or Bush from claiming that Senate, was still..

joe mccarthy and the deep state

McCarthy's recklessness, including manipulation of the medium of television, led to bipartisan censure in US Senate, with Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of future US presidents, prominent among McCarthy's critics. ..

frc blog » archives august 2007

Embryonic stem-cells experimentation: After passing both the Senate and the House and then rightly vetoed by President Bush, the Senate now plans to vote to override the President veto - as it stands right now we have enough votes in the Senate to protect the veto but it is close. ..

ex-lawmaker tapped as budget boss

The appointments of Schwab and Portman are subject to Senate confirmation. . Bush said Tuesday that he has given new chief of staff Josh Bolten far-reaching authority to recommend further changes at a time when the president's popularity is at an all-time low. ..

tribunedigital-orlandosentinel

By insisting that portion of the aid to, Washington, Congress headed toward approval of spending $87 billion on Iraq and Afghanistan, and Senate denied President Bush victory Iraq be given as loan.. ... By erasing politically fragile proposals funds for buying, While Senate..

rhetorica » 2002 » september

When Bush asserted in New Jersey on Sept 23 that Democrat-controlled Senate is more interested in special interests Washington and not interested in the security of American people, Sen. It's despicable that any president would attempt to use the matter of Byrd said on Senate..

circuit nominees on political battleground

Democratic Senate holding up some of Bush's choices for judge, and GOP plans to use that in fall election. ... Bush on Friday accused the Senate of 'endangering the administration of justice in America' by not moving faster on his nominees. . ..

on death row, inmates' choice

The Senate approved the change 37-0, with the House following suit, 102-5. ... A similar measure failed 29-9 in the Senate. . Bush, who insisted that legislators deal with the appeals speed-up during the special session, said he doesn't think the death penalty is applied more..

attempt to limit appeals fails

By refusing to cut off the right of inmates to file habeas corpus appeals, House rejected the hysterical view of Bush and Senate. Bush and his former attorney, Dick Thornburgh, argued that inmates used habeas corpus petitions to delay executions. ..

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