When they said today that even though they could not muster a majority of votes on their side, they would maneuver anyway as a minority to block president barack obama from appointing his chosen secretary of defense. This has never happened before. To anyone ever. I mean, we have had cabinet nominees not make it through the Senate Confirmation process before. People who could not win over a majority of the senate so they did not get confirmed. Weve had that happen. Weve had people pull their name from contention when it became clear they could not win confirmation in the senate. But president obamas nominee for defense secretary chuck hagel, he does have majority support in the senate. What happened today is that a minority of that body, the republicans, decided that they were going to block him anyway. Never happened before. They filibustered a cabinet nomination. In the past, over the years there have been a couple of token efforts at maybe doing this in the past that got a handful o
His cabinet. But that happened today to president barack obama. Republicans in the senate decided to do something unprecedented to him. And to thereby set an entirely new precedent for how the presidency itself is treated in our country. When they said today that even though they could not muster a majority of votes on their side, they would maneuver anyway as a minority to block president barack obama from appointing his chosen secretary of defense. This has never happened before. To anyone ever. I mean, we have had cabinet nominees not make it through the Senate Confirmation process before. People who could not win over a majority of the senate so they did not get confirmed. Weve had that happen. Weve had people pull their name from contention when it became clear they could not win confirmation in the senate. But president obamas nominee for defense secretary chuck hagel, he does have majority support in the senate. What happened today is that a minority of that body, the republican
That made history. Today something happened in american politics that has never before happened in the history of our republic. In all of the trials and tribulations we have been through as a nation, through the wars, through the great depression, through the time when senators used to beat one another with canes inside the capitol, in everything we have ever been through as a nation what happened today has never happened before. Not ever. Not one of the 44 president s our country has had has ever been blocked by a minority in the senate from choosing someone for his cabinet. But that happened today to president barack obama. Republicans in the senate decided to do something unprecedented to him. And to thereby set an entirely new precedent for how the presidency itself is treated in our country. When they said today that even though they could not muster a majority of votes on their side, they would maneuver anyway as a minority to block president barack obama from appointing his chos
(The Center Square) — Florida lawmakers have advanced a bill this week that would allow young students and those who teach them the tools to be successful.
Registration is currently under way for both the summer and fall Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program. Early Learning Coalition of Southwest Florida Chi