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Stephen Dinan The Washington Times 12/6/2011 Senate Republicans on Tuesday filibustered one of President Obama’s appellate court nominees, ending a six-year truce and reigniting one of the bitterest recurring battles on Capitol Hill. The 54-45 vote, almost entirely along partisan lines, blocked former New York Solicitor-General Caitlin Joan Halligan from getting a seat on the […] December 7th, 2011 | Tags: appellate courts, Caitlin Joan Halligan, filibuster, hypocrisy, judicial activists, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Sen. Richard Durbin, Sen. Susan Collins | Category: 2nd Amendment, Barack Obama, Congress, New York, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Mackenzie Weinger Politico 9/26/2011 Sen. Susan Collins says businesses need a “time-out” from excessive regulations that discourage job creation. The Maine Republican wrote Monday in the Wall Street Journal that American employers “dread what is coming next out of Washington” — and Congress must pass the legislation she has proposed imposing a one-year moratorium on […] October 2nd, 2011 | Tags: "time-out", Great Recession, Sen. Susan Collins | Category: Congress, Economy, Employment, federal regulations, legislation, Maine, Politicians, Progressives, unemployment | Comments are closed
WFED’s Jason Miller on the Federal Drive April 14, 2011 Download mp3 By Jason Miller Executive Editor Federal News Radio Under a White House plan, the Homeland Security Department will have far-reaching oversight over all civilian agency computer networks. The proposal would codify much of the administration’s memo from July 2010 expanding DHS’s cyber responsibilities […] April 16th, 2011 | Tags: "Czar" Cass Sunstein, “Google provision”, Constitution 2020 movement, cyber crime, internet domains, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Sen. Susan Collins, Sen. Tom Carper | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Homeland Security, federal regulations, Internet, legislation, Progressives, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 2/1/2011 Imagine if the government had the power to disconnect an entire country from its Internet service. Actually, we don’t have to imagine it; we have seen it happen in the past week, as the Mubarak regime in Egypt tried in vain to keep protesters from organizing on Twitter, Facebook, and other […] February 2nd, 2011 | Tags: "cybersecurity emergency", "kill switch", Communications Act, cyber attacks, Egypt, Facebook, Internet Service Providers, President Hosni Mubarak, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Sen. Susan Collins, Twitter | Category: 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, Censorship, Congress, Internet, Progressives, Social networking websites | Comments are closed
Gulag Bound 1/30/2011 The obvious use of Internet censorship, blocking, and shutdown by despots in trouble — what else is it for? Especially in America, viruses and malware may be fought by much, much more sophisticated, rifle-shot means. Even though such governmental powers are shown for their true use, for example in Red China, in […] January 31st, 2011 | Tags: "cyber emergency", Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Internet Service Providers, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, Sen. Susan Collins | Category: Barack Obama, Censorship, Department of Homeland Security, Internet, law enforcement, Maine, Progressives, US Constitution, Wisconsin | Comments are closed
William A. Jacobson Legal Insurrection 12/14/2010 I have warned time and again that the lame duck Democratic Congress could not be trusted, and that the longer it went on, the more mischief Democrats would attempt. I urged Mitch McConnell and other Republicans in the Senate to do everything within their power to shut down the […] December 14th, 2010 | Tags: lame duck session, Rep. John Boehner, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Susan Collins | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Federal spending, Politicians, Taxes | Comments are closed
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