Roll Call: “Several Senate Republicans who backed a procedural motion to allow the measure known as the ‘doc fix’ to get a final vote opposed the legislation — the very same day.”
Archives for April 2014
Democrats Bet on Technology Despite Debt
The DNC “is entering this campaign season with millions of dollars in debt, gambling that money spent now on technology and organizing efforts will outweigh the burdens of red ink,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The DNC had more than $15 million in debt and less than $7 million in cash as of the end of February. While both parties have racked up debts, especially just before an election, experts say it is unusual for the party that holds the White House to carry debt so long into the next election cycle.”
U.S. Weighs Release of Jonathan Pollard
“The Obama administration is discussing the release of an American convicted of spying for Israel more than a quarter of a century ago, American officials said Monday, as it struggles to avert a collapse in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians,” the New York Times reports.
“The Israeli government has long sought the release of the spy, Jonathan J. Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, who is serving a life sentence in a North Carolina prison for passing classified documents to his Israeli handlers. But the United States has steadfastly refused, in part because of the vehement opposition of the nation’s intelligence agencies.”
“Now, however, freeing Mr. Pollard is again on the table, as Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Jerusalem on Monday for urgent talks to try to resolve a dispute over Israel’s release of Palestinian prisoners.”
Inside the Battle to Pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Just published: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Todd S. Purdum.
“From the Kennedy brothers to Lyndon Johnson, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen, Purdum shows how these all-too-human figures managed, in just over a year, to create a bill that prompted the longest filibuster in the history of the U.S. Senate yet was ultimately adopted with overwhelming bipartisan support. He evokes the high purpose and low dealings that marked the creation of this monumental law, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of new interviews that bring to life this signal achievement in American history.”
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