I've never been so devastated by the defeat of a conservative Republican to the U.S. Senate as I was this Tuesday. It's not just that Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning is a great guy: a warm, humble, often hilarious teddy bear of a man who's the type of person you'd be proud to represent you in Congress.
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U.S. Senate leaders are negotiating an agreement to hold a series of votes this week on various budget proposals, including the latest one passed by the House and another one formed by tea party-backed senators.
May 15, 2012 | in Make Congress Work, No Budget No Pay, No Labels In The News
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Profiles in Courage,"John F. Kennedy wrote admiringly of U.S. senators who put the national interest ahead of partisanship, ideological purity and regional parochialism. Many sacrificed their careers because of their stands, but Kennedy held them aloft as examples to be emulated for their moral courage, intellectual independence and public candor.
May 15, 2012 | in Make Congress Work, Bipartisanship, Newswire
Welcome back, Congress! During your recess, we marked the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death. It was an anniversary well worth marking, and America is safer with the world’s most notorious terrorist out of commission.
May 8, 2012 | in Make Congress Work, No Budget No Pay, No Labels In The News
PORTLAND - No Labels, the national organization determined to bring more constructive dialogue to government, recently came to town. The group held a meeting at the University of New England's Portland campus that featured Angus King, the independent former governor now running for Senate, and Eliot Cutler, the independent who nearly won the 2008 gubernatorial race.
May 8, 2012 | in Make Congress Work, No Budget No Pay, Maine, No Labels In The News
"No Labels.org" has released the results of a poll of Maine voters showing 92 percent support the No Budget, No Pay Act.
May 2, 2012 | in Make Congress Work, No Budget No Pay, Maine, No Labels In The News
King and Cutler both spoke in support of the "No Budget, No Pay" legislation at the "No Labels" forum on the University of New England Portland Campus Friday night. The legislation would stop congressional paychecks if members of Congress do not meet the deadline for passing the federal budget.
April 27, 2012 | in No Budget No Pay, Make Congress Work, Angus King, Eliot Cutler, Newswire
Former U.S. Sen. George V. Voinovich, an Ohio Republican, tonight will conduct a town hall teleconference to discuss solutions to the nation's dysfunctional budget process.
Voinovich will join members of No Labels, a bipartisan government reform group, in advocating a so-called "No Budget, No Pay" bill that would withhold pay from members of Congress until they pass a new federal budget.
April 24, 2012 | in Make Congress Work, No Budget No Pay, No Labels In The News
“Party leaders have decided, yet again, that their members shouldn’t take tough votes in an election year. The problem is, every other year is an election year,” said former senator and No Labels co-founder George Voinovich.
April 21, 2012 | in Make Congress Work, No Budget No Pay, Newswire
The use of the filibuster, technically known as a motion to invoke cloture, has skyrocketed in recent years. After a period of almost no such actions from the late 1940s through the 1960s, the Senate recorded about 40 cloture motions in the early 1970s, 80 during the mid-1990s, and finally 139 motions in 2007-08, according to the Harvard Law & Policy Review.
April 8, 2012 | in Make Congress Work, Filibuster Reform
