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6 Apr 2006, 8:55 am
[JURIST] US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) [official website], Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) [official website] and eleven other senators announced Thursday that party leaders have hammered out a compromise immigration reform bill [PDF summary; press conference transcript] that both sides hope to submit for a floor vote before Friday. [read post]
28 Jan 2006, 10:02 am
[JURIST] The effort by Democratic Senators John Kerry (D-MA) [official website; Friday floor speech], Edward Kennedy (D-MA) [official website] and others to attempt a last-minute filibuster [JURIST report] blocking the US Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito [JURIST news archive] has been met with opposition from fellow Senate Democrats who fear the strategy might backfire and adversely [read post]
20 Mar 2005, 9:04 am
[JURIST] The US Senate has passed legislation to move the Terri Schiavo case into the federal courts. [read post]
28 Jan 2009, 4:07 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] voted 17-2 Wednesday to approve the nomination of Eric Holder [professional profile] to serve as Attorney General. [read post]
24 Apr 2016, 10:06 pm
Senate Dem calls for household child protections. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 2:22 pm
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. [read post]
27 Jul 2005, 9:44 am
[JURIST] Republican members of the Senate Judiciary committee [official website] and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) [official profile] have urged committee chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official profile] to begin confirmation hearings on US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts during Congress' August recess, rather than after September 5 when the body reconvenes. [read post]
30 Aug 2005, 2:28 am
[JURIST] US Senator Patrick Leahy [official website], ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Monday that the committee's Democrats intend to question Supreme Court nominee John Roberts [JURIST news archive] about a Justice Department memo that some say led to torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news archive] and in Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
29 May 2005, 11:13 am
[JURIST] The Texas Senate Saturday approved Senate Bill 60 [text], which would give jurors in capital murder cases the option of sentencing a defendant to life in prison without parole instead of death. [read post]
12 Sep 2006, 4:12 am
[JURIST] US Senators John Warner (R-VA), John McCain (R-AZ), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Monday circulated a revised draft [PDF text] of a bill that would establish military commissions [JURIST news archive] for terror detainees. [read post]
17 May 2008, 10:10 am
Senate panel has unanimously approved a bill that would encourage federal, state, and local police to use and create special software designed to nab child pornography swappers on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. [read post]
19 Jul 2005, 12:29 pm
The Akaka bill [background website] is sponsored by US Senators Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka [official websites], both from Hawaii, who said the Republican majority had committed to sending [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 2:44 pm
[JURIST] The Maryland Senate [General Assembly website] passed a bill Wednesday to ignore the US Electoral College [official website] in presidential elections, instead awarding the state's 10 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 1:43 am
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] on Thursday confirmed David Ogden [professional profile; Senate materials] as the new Deputy Attorney General by a vote of 65-28 [roll call]. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 9:15 am
[JURIST] The US Senate on Thursday approved the Keystone XL Pipeline Bill [S.1, text], which proposes development of a 1,179 mile pipeline for the transmission of crude oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
29 Jan 2006, 5:05 pm
[JURIST] Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) [official website], a Republican member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee [official website], Sunday questioned the legitimacy of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive], casting doubt on its legality in the absence of judicial or Congressional authority. [read post]
31 Jul 2004, 3:02 pm
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins urged bold but not reckless consideration of reorganizing the US intelligence structure, and Joe Lieberman promised "unprecedented thoughtfulness and speed" to [read post]
10 Nov 2005, 3:45 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommitee on the Constitution [official website] approved a proposed constitutional amendment, the Marriage Protection Amendment [PDF text], in a 5-4 vote Wednesday. [read post]
19 May 2006, 5:03 am
[JURIST] The US Senate on Thursday passed the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 [PDF text], which would increase the maximum FCC indecency [JURIST news archive] fines per station by a multiple of ten, from $32,500 to $325,000 per violation. [read post]
24 May 2012, 12:45 pm
Article II, Section 2 of the US Constitution grants the President "... [read post]
