Reid Sets Adjournment Date
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 10th, 2008 4:41 am by HL
Reid Sets Adjournment Date
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) “has agreed to the House target of adjourning Congress by Sept. 26, giving it only a few weeks to finish an agenda that, Democrats say, has been backed up because of Republican opposition,” according to The Hill.
“Republicans have frustrated Reid by launching dozens of filibusters to slow Senate business… As Election Day nears, however, it has become clear that Democratic leaders have little desire to keep their members away from the campaign trail during what some analysts predict could be a windfall election for their party.”
Quote of the Day
“Maybe that’s a way of killing them.”
— Sen. John McCain, quoted by the AP, when asked about a report that $158 million in cigarettes have been shipped to Iran during George W. Bush’s presidency despite restrictions on U.S. exports to that country.
