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Onsite Report: Rally to Free President Bush’s Judicial Nominees Upper Senate Park, Washington, DC (Thursday, 20 June 2002)No Conservatives Need Apply. As the Big Hillbilly Bluegrass Band played in the sweltering noon sun, the leaders of some of America’s largest conservative organizations, as well as over 100 supporters gathered in the Upper Senate Park in an attempt to transfer some heat to Senators Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) for their continued efforts to derail President Bush’s judicial nominees. Sponsored by the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary, this rally marked day 406 since President Bush announced his first...

Georgia’s fiery Republican Rep. Bob Barr (Ga.) has never been particularly popular among his Democratic colleagues. He was, after all, the first member of Congress to call for former President Clinton’s impeachment and has never cut his opponents much slack on issues that concern him. What’s more, the man’s ubiquitous. He fights for his beliefs in committee, on the House floor and in the media. As a result, he’s been a target ever since his 1994 arrival in town and this time they believe they may be able to get him. Oh, they know he won’t be taken out in...

JUSTICE HELD HOSTAGE: DAY 406 For 406 days, Senator “Do-Nothing” Daschle and Senator “De-Leahy” have held President Bush’s imminently qualified judicial nominees hostage. The Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have been spoon-fed misinformation from extreme left-wing organizations like the so-called People for the American Way, the NAACP and the National Organization for Women. Senate Democrats have also clearly decided that ‘payback’ is a strategy worthy of the United States Senate. Most Americans do not agree. If you believe that the Senate’s role is to advise and consent, not “delay and obstruct,” then please join us: Time: 12:00pm to 12:45pm,...

Announcement: Public / Private – Who Serves America Better? Sponsored by The New Republic I received the following announcement from The New Republic regarding a panel discussion on: Who Serves America Best, the Public or Private Sector? The event will be moderated by New Republic Editor Peter Beinart and the panel will include: Jeff Faux – President, Economic Policy Institute Grover Norquist – President, Americans for Tax Reform Leslie Paige – Vice President, Citizens Against Government Waste Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) The event will be held on Thursday, June 13th at 6:30 p.m. in the Cannon Caucus Room (345...

<p>Congressional Republicans are creating a political operation designed specifically to register and turn out Republican voters to protect their majority in the House in November's elections.</p> <p>In the past such efforts have been led by the Republican National Committee, but this year House Republican leaders are implementing their own push, which they call STOMP — the Strategic Taskforce for the Organization and Mobilization of People — to work with the RNC and state parties to turn out voters.</p>

<p>Baltimore-born Chuck Muth, a longtime libertarian-conservative activist, is returning to Washington as the new executive director of the American Conservative Union. He will bring with him his wife, Gia, daughter Kristen and three dogs — including his black Labrador named Reagan.</p>

On Site Report: Rumsfeld Addresses Joint Services Open House Andrews Air Force Base, MD (Friday, 17 May) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers, USAF, held the opening ceremonies for the Joint Service Open House at Andrews Air Force Base. As personnel from the Army, Marine, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard stood in formation behind him, General Myers began by calling upon all Americans to remember our men and women who are fighting overseas. General Myers proudly proclaimed that, “Our men and women in uniform do it all!” And...

On Site Report: The Judicial Crisis Press Conference and Rally (09 May) Reported from the Mansfield Room (Room 207) of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. To an overflow crowd wearing “Remember Bork” and “Remember Pickering" stickers, Republican Senators and a broadening coalition of local and national organizations called upon the Senate Democrats to stop the smear campaign against qualified judicial nominees. This chorus of national advocates from the Family Research Council to the Log Cabin Republicans appealed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to end his obstructionist campaign. “Just plain wrong!” Senator Orrin Hatch expressed the sentiments of...

May 9th marks the one-year anniversary of President Bush’s announcement of his first eleven (11) judicial nominees. The significance of this is that eight of these nominees have yet to have a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.As our President said this past Friday, “By its inaction, the Senate is endangering the administration of justice in America. I call on Senate Democrats to end the vacancy crisis in our federal courts by restoring fairness to the judicial confirmation process.” In response to the obstructionist tactics of the Senate Democrats, the Senate Republican Conference and the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary...

On 15 April, the Senate Press Gallery Standing Committee met to “reconsider” the application of WorldNetDaily.com for "congressional press accreditation." As I walked through a sea of pro-Israel demonstrators on the western end of the US Capitol, the irony was inescapable. While one group exercised its 1st Amendment rights, the largest independent news site on the Internet was being denied access to the Capitol by a committee made up of members of the press! Committee Chairman Bill Roberts of Bloomberg informed the participants that WorldNetDaily would present its objections to the Committee’s original decision, which rested on three points, 1)...

Activism Report – The Miguel Estrada Press Conference & Rally (10 April) Reported from the “Senate Swamp” on the Eastern side of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. With shouts, whistles and cries of, “Open the doors!” and “Eleven months is too long!” a group of Republican Senators and Hispanic leaders castigated Senate Democrats for preventing President Bush’s judicial nominees from having a fair hearing. The focus of today’s rally was Miguel Estrada, whose nomination to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has been stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee for nearly a year. Senator Domenici...

Support President Bush's Judicial Nominee! We would like you to consider attending a rally and press conference in support of Miguel Estrada, President Bush’s nominee to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The rally will be held Wednesday, April 10th, 2002 at 12noon at the “Senate Swamp” on the Eastern side of the U.S. Capitol, opposite the Supreme Court. The Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, its Chairman, Senator Leahy, and Senate Majority Leader Daschle are continuing to prevent President Bush’s judicial nominees from having a fair hearing. They are applying a “liberal litmus test” to judicial nominees so...

The conventional wisdom is that the electorate is weary of slick politicians and just wants candidates to tell the truth. These are lofty-sounding sentiments but I'm not convinced. In an interview with Fox News' Brit Hume, pollster Frank Luntz explained that voters are drawn to the campaigns of Bill Bradley and John McCain because of their "straight talk." I have no doubt that Luntz, a superb pollster, is accurately describing the findings of his voter interviews. But I do doubt that the people he was interviewing were being completely honest with themselves. That is, I have come to believe that ...

As touted by the ABC News Website at www.abcnews.com, by going to their Politics section, you can "Click here for everything you need to know about the presidential contenders." http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Popoff/whitehouse2000_intro_Panel.html "Take an interactive look at the entire field of candidates for the 2000 presidential nominations and election." The only problem, one candidate is missing! Can you guess who it may be? Here's a hint. Place your cursor to the left of Senator John McCain and see whose name magically appears. For more fun, go to Issues Section and see how ABC rates this invisible candidate on their selected issues.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes slammed front-runner George W. Bush for running a ''don't ask, don't tell'' campaign by declining to participate in the first candidates' debate later this month. Bush, the governor of Texas and son of former president George Bush, said Monday he would not participate in the forum at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire scheduled for Oct. 28 because his wife Laura was receiving an award in Texas that day. ``I hope the organizers understand that while the debate may be important, it's not nearly as important as me being with my wife on ...