and with that senate vote, chuck hagel came up short of a 60-vote filibuster roadblock that senate republicans demanded, delaying what could still be hagel s eventual confirmation vote by at least two weeks. four republicans, mississippi s thad cochran, susan collins, mike johannes, and lisa murkowski voted. president obama was emphatic during a google plus question and answer session. my expectation and hope is that chuck hagel, who richly deserves to get a vote on the floor of the senate, will be confirmed as our defense secretary. it s just unfortunate that this kind of politics intrudes at a time when i m still presiding over a war in afghanistan. interestingly, some republicans acknowledge yesterday that it s just a
0 and with that senate vote, chuck hagel came up short of a 60-vote filibuster roadblock that senate republicans demanded, delaying what could still be hagel s eventual confirmation vote by at least two weeks. four republicans, mississippi s thad cochran, susan collins, mike johannes, and lisa murkowski voted. president obama was emphatic during a google plus question and answer session. my expectation and hope is that chuck hagel, who richly deserves to get a vote on the floor of the senate, will be confirmed as our defense secretary. it s just unfortunate that this kind of politics intrudes at a time when i m still presiding over a war in afghanistan. interestingly, some republicans acknowledge yesterday that it s just a well, that s not the rule. i guess to be able to run for the senate as a republican in most places of the country, you need to have a resume that says, i helped filibuster one of the president s nominees. maybe that helps. maybe that keeps the tea party guy f
if neighbors, let s say, knock on each others doors, asking or demanding how they vote, the flyer reads in part the chart shows names of your neighbors showing which have voted in the past. look at the list below. are there neighbors on this list you know? i was outraged. it s my private information and it s being sent to everybody all over the neighborhood. something is wrong there, i think, that it s just an invasion of our privacy, that right. you go to vote and you think it s going to kept private and your information is going to be kept private and then to get this? reporter: it turns out that voter information is not private. but public record. and by law. the government accountability board which oversees the elections in wisconsin has to offer voting lists for sale. the lists of voters are often used for political campaigning but according to the board this is the very first time the names and voting histories have been used in this matter. by the way the list
ties to the democratic party, as well as to labor unions. and while this may be upsetting to some people, as we will tell you about, it may also be perfectly legal. eric shawn is in our new york news with details. reporter: megyn, how would you like it if your neighbors knew your voting record? that has plenty of voters in wisconsin outraged on this recall election day, they are angry that this activist group did just that, sending out flyers listing neighbors names, addresses and whether or not they voted in the november 2008 and 2010 election. the group behind this is the greater wisconsin political fund, they re affiliated with greater wisconsin committee which has run ads against republican against republican governor scott walker. apparently it was intended to encourage people to vote but many see it as a violation of voter privacy. critics say it could also lead to voter intimidation if neighbors, let s say, knock on each others doors, asking or demanding how they
those states there would be others who would have the ability other states, i sup pose. this federal common law nuisance is available first and foremost for the state and the question whether the land trust or any other private parties could even bring it is even if you won in a district court and impose some sort of limit, would there be any other obstacle for other claims bringing suits and another district court issuing a different standard? well, ultimately such things would be resolve by appeal and by the circuit courts. i mean, there are conflicts in many areas. that s true about every district court litigation. well, no, it s not. it s not true every litigation in this sense that everyone is harmed by global warming. so unless you limit your suits to the states which would i m not aware of a principle basis for doing that. every individual can bring individual in the world if they can establish jurisdiction can bring one of these causes of action. wel