Tweet The end of 2011 can be marked by signing a major defense bill by President Obama. This event happened in spite of serious reservations” on provisions concerning the relations of the Unites States of America and Russia, imposing sanctions against Iran and interrogations of terrorist suspects. But still there are representatives in Congress... 

Tweet Congress approved the $662 billion defense bill last Thursday after months of negotiating over how to handle arrested terrorist suspects without going against Americans’ constitutional rights. A compromise has been reached but it doesn’t mean that the fight is over. The Senate voted 86 to 13 in favor of the measure and it now requires the signature... 

Tweet President Barack Obama asked Congress to vote on his jobs bill within this month despite the signs that it would receive strong resistance from the Republicans. The president said that he’s ready to sign the measure. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia said that the legislators would vote on elements of the jobs bill but it would not... 

Tweet President Barack Obama pressured Congress last Tuesday to consider his $450 billion jobs bill. He said that it has been two weeks since he gave the bill to Capitol Hills. He said that he wants it approved so that he can sign the bill and give people jobs. He spoke before the Abraham Lincoln Hill School to emphasize the education elements of his... 

Tweet House Speaker John Boehner got the Republicans in the House of Representatives to approve the debt limit bill with a vote of 269-161. The compromise bill will give the federal government the ability to borrow $400 billion dollars more and let President Barack Obama ask for another $500 billion in the next couple of months. Congress said that it... 

Tweet Supporters and opponents of same sex marriage made their last minute appeals last Sunday as state legislators are set to vote on making New York the sixth state in the United States to make gay marriage legal. Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced the measure that would make same sex marriage in New York legal. At present it is one vote away from approval... 

Tweet New York Governor Andrew Cuomo pushes for a bill that legalizes gay marriage in the state. It also gives several protections for religious organizations that opposed same-sex marriages. According to the Marriage Equality Act, married gay couples will have the same legal rights, protections and benefits of traditional married couples. Governor Cuomo’s... 

Tweet House Republicans from Alabama supports the bill that would fund the federal government for another week as the congressional leaders discuss further the budget for the rest of the present fiscal year. They said that the soldiers should be paid for protecting the nation. The vote for the stopgap spending measure was 247-181. The bill will fund the... 

Tweet President Barack Obama called the Republican House Speaker John Boehner for a meeting in the White House to talk about preventing a government shutdown this weekend as Congress failed to reach an agreement with regards to the 2011 budget. The proposed bill that would have funded the federal agencies and impose spending cuts was stuck in Congress. Aside... 

Tweet Judge Maryann Sumi in Madison will consider the request to temporarily stop the enforcement of the legislation that bars the collective bargaining by public workers in the state of Wisconsin. At present a suit was filed against the state legislators who passed the particular law. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne filed the lawsuit claiming...