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Has the deal been violated? Not Voting (For Cloture of Owen) - 1- Inouye (D-HI) The deal...A. Votes for Certain Nominees. We (the undersigned) will vote to invoke cloture on the following judicial nominees: Janice Rogers Brown (D.C. Circuit), William Pryor (11th Circuit), and Priscilla Owen (5th Circuit) Inouye is a signatory to the deal, the deal said they all would vote to invoke cloture, he didn't vote.........deal just got broke.

By February of 1975, frustration about the filibusters had grown so intense that a majority of senators, mostly Democrats, favored using the nuclear option. They pointed to Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution, which reads, "Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings." So in a series of votes on complex parliamentary procedures in the winter and spring of 1975, the Senate established its right to set and alter the rules of the Senate with a simple majority vote, free from the threat of filibusters.

Follow is a list of the US Congressmen and Senators that officially acted to intimidate, threaten, and suppress the broadcast of Stolen Honor by Sinclair Broadcasting. They, along with their agents who threatened advertisers, sued shareholders, and ginned up false 'public outrage', and with the deafening SILENCE of the corrupt liberal media, succeeded in suppressing the free speech of decorated war veterans.

"John Kerry's campaign trail amnesia extended today to his record of proposing intelligence cuts totaling $7.5 billion while serving on the Senate Intelligence Committee, cuts so radical even his fellow Democrats criticized them. John Kerry's attack is another example of his flailing efforts to defend a record that is out of the mainstream." - Steve Schmidt, Bush-Cheney '04 Spokesman Kerry's Dismal Intelligence Record Kerry Was On Senate Select Intelligence Committee For Eight Years (1993-2000). (Michael Barone and Grant Ujifusa, The Almanac Of American Politics 2000, 1999, p. 1796; Michael Barone and Grant Ujifusa, The Almanac Of American Politics 1998,...

In the 1990s, John Kerry served eight years on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Despite such incidents as the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and the bombing of the Khobar Towers in 1996, Kerry proposed intelligence cuts throughout the 1990s and even asked his colleagues in 1997, "Now that [the Cold War] struggle is over, why is it that our vast intelligence apparatus continues to grow?" Fortunately, many of his liberal-Democratic colleagues understood that there were other threats, such as terrorism, that still abounded; it was rare for them even to agree with his proposed slashing of the intelligence budget....

Leading Democrat Warned Kerry on Intelligence Cuts Writing on his blog, Citizen Smash brings to light the transcript of a 1994 Senate floor speech by Hawaii Democrat Daniel Inouye, a forty-year member of the Senate and World War II veteran. Senator Inouye offers pointed criticism of an amendment to slash funding for defense and intelligence programs -- an amendment authored by John Kerry: Madam President, if I may, I would like to say a few words about amendment No. 1452, an amendment submitted by the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Kerry]. The amendment offered by Senator Kerry would reduce the...

                                    U.S. Senate                                 Committee on Armed Services,                                Washington, DC, October 9, 1998.       The President,       The White House, Washington, DC.           Dear Mr. President: We are writing to express our concern        over recent developments in Iraq.           Last February, the Senate was working on a resolution        supporting military action if diplomacy did not succeed in        convincing Saddam Hussein to comply with the United Nations        Security Council resolutions concerning the disclosure and        destruction of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. This        effort was discontinued when the Iraqi government reaffirmed        its...

<p>Who do our Congresspersons think they're fooling? As they ponder a pork-laden energy bill and a multi-trillion-dollar Medicare prescription drug benefit, some have chosen President Bush's Iraqi reconstruction request as the place to make a stand for fiscal rectitude.</p> <p>The issue is whether to exploit Iraq's future oil revenues by giving some of the aid not as a grant, as the White House insists, but as a loan. The Senate voted last week to make $10 billion of its $18.4 billion reconstruction package a loan. Though the House voted all the money as a grant, that schizoid chamber passed a non-binding motion Tuesday instructing conferees to adopt the Senate position.</p>

[ED. NOTE: Following are excerpts from the 1998 Congressional Record. They are EXTREMELY revealing as to who was wringing their hands over the danger posed to U.S. security by Iraq and its WMD just five years ago, and who was calling Iraq’s actions that year a "crisis." These debates led to passage of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, WHICH MADE REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ UNITED STATES POLICY. Please bear with this long post. It’s crucial ammunition for anyone who wants clear, unambiguous evidence of Democrat hypocrisy on Iraq and WMD.] [BEGIN EXCERPTS: Click link above to search the full...

They healed together after World War II. They served together on the floor of the United States Senate. And while the late U.S. Sen. Phil Hart of Michigan, former presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas and current U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, came from different backgrounds and formed different political leanings, their names together will now be synonymous with Battle Creek's most famous landmark

Before you even read this piece, I want you to open a new e-mail and send the link to everyone in your address book. Yes, it's that big - and it's the kind of news you never would have heard about without the so-called new media. I've posted here a letter from the Senate Committee on Armed Services to President Bill Clinton on October 9, 1998. It reminds the president of the February resolution authorizing military force if Saddam failed to comply with UN Security Council resolutions "concerning the disclosure and destruction of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction." June 5,...

<p>U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye was home ill yesterday with what appears to be a flu bug, his Honolulu office said.</p> <p>Inouye, D-Hawai'i, missed the Senate's 90-8 vote to create a commission to look into intelligence failures and other government missteps before the Sept. 11 attacks and recommend how to prevent future disasters.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON – Sen. Daniel Inouye emerged at the center of an impassioned Senate session today, with Democrats firing back at President Bush for accusing the Senate of not caring about national security. Majority Leader Tom Daschle demanded that Bush apologize to Hawai'i's senior Democrat and other war veterans in the Senate. Inouye followed with a rare off-the-cuff Senate speech, declaring his concern for America, lamenting the possibility of war against Iraq, and accusing Bush of being divisive.</p>

<p>A decade ago, as the United States prepared for war with Iraq, Sen. Dan Inouye was an eloquent voice of opposition.</p> <p>The Hawai'i Democrat, who lost his right arm fighting for the United States in World War II, said in January 1991 that he was not one to shrink from a fight but the United States had not exhausted its options in dealing with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.</p>

(Waikapu, Maui-AP) -- U-S Senator Daniel Inouye predicted this year's election campaign will be one of the "dirtiest and most vicious" in Hawaii's history. In a talk on Maui yesterday, Inouye noted the recent arrests and prosecution of several Oahu politicians and said that "just by coincidence the only ones who're called in are Democrats." When asked if he was implying that the prosecutions are politically motivated, Inouye said, "What other conclusion can I reach?" That drew a sharp retort from Honolulu Prosecutor Peter Carlisle. He said the decision to prosecute is based on evidence and violations of law, not...

Residents in the Makiki-Tantalus area continue to spot wild pigs in their neighborhood despite a recent state-sponsored hunting season to control the animals. Around 11 a.m. yesterday, Lynda Sakraida spotted a large wild pig near the 3.5-mile marker along Tantalus Drive. The pig retreated into some bushes after being spotted. "The pig population has worsened over the years," said Sakraida, a 19-year resident of Kalaiopua Place. Like Sakraida, other Tantalus residents see a continuous need to control the pigs they say cause soil erosion and damage to native plants. So state officials are considering another hunting season in the same...