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31 Oct 2007, 2:50 pm
[JURIST] The chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee announced [press release] Wednesday that an executive business meeting [SJC materials] will be held November 6 to consider the nomination of Michael Mukasey [WH profile; JURIST news archive] as US attorney general. [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 4:42 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Armed Services Committee [official website] announced Friday the approval [press release] an appropriations bill that would alter the rules of evidence used in military commission trials. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 9:41 am
[JURIST] The US Senate voted 51-45 [roll call] Wednesday to approve the conference report for an intelligence funding bill [HR 2082 materials], which includes a provision that would restrict CIA interrogators to using only those interrogation techniques explicitly authorized by the 2006 Army Field Manual. [read post]
31 Jan 2006, 11:19 am
[JURIST] The US Senate has approved the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito [JURIST news archive] to serve as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court by a vote of 58-42 [roll call vote]. [read post]
23 Oct 2003, 3:09 pm
AP reports that the US Senate has voted today to bar the use of government money to enforce four-decade-old restrictions on American travel to Cuba. [read post]
29 Jul 2005, 5:41 pm
[JURIST] AP is reporting that the US Senate has passed [roll call] legislation designed to shield the firearms industry from lawsuits brought by victims of gun crimes. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 4:07 am
[JURIST] The US Senate official website] on Monday confirmed Judge Andre Davis, President Barack Obama's nominee to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [official website], by a vote of 72-16 [roll call vote]. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 2:10 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Finance Committee [official website] voted 14-9 to approve [press release, PDF] a health care reform bill [text, PDF] Tuesday. [read post]
5 May 2006, 2:35 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Armed Services Committee [official website] on Thursday added a provision to the 2007 defense spending bill which would require the Bush administration to provide "a US government coordinated legal opinion on whether certain specified interrogation techniques would constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005. [read post]
16 May 2006, 8:36 am
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] on Tuesday rejected a conservative amendment to proposed immigration legislation [text] that would have required new US border security measures to be fully completed and fully operational before the government could implement a program for illegal immigrants to earn citizenship as proposed by President Bush during his immigration reform address [JURIST [read post]
30 Apr 2009, 11:28 pm
[JURIST] US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [official profiles] addressed questions [video] about the specific plans for closing the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detention facility before the US Senate Committee on Appropriations [official website] on Thursday. [read post]
26 Aug 2005, 3:17 am
[JURIST] US Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official website] has asked the FBI for "all information and documents it has" pertaining to "Able Danger" [Wikipedia profile], the US Army intelligence program alleged to have identified Mohammed Atta [Wikipedia profile] and three other 9/11 hijackers as members of al-Qaeda in mid-2000. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 5:31 am
On Jan 31st the Georgia Senate passed a bill to authorize the use of silencers on hunting firearms under certain circumstances and repeal conflicting laws. [read post]
12 Nov 2003, 7:38 am
In an attempt to get confirmation votes on several Bush judicial nominees, the US Senate will begin a 30-hour marathon debate Wednesday evening that will run from 6 PM through [read post]
19 Feb 2021, 2:06 pm
The Judicial Proceedings Committee was expected to vote Friday night to approve the measure, which stops short of ending the use of the warrants as the ... [read post]
19 May 2009, 10:45 am
The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to put new restrictions on the credit card industry, passing a bill whose backers say will make card issuers spell out their terms in fewer words, using plain English, and treat customers more fairly. [read post]
21 Apr 2015, 7:39 pm
Thomas Mitchell at The Sparks Tribune provides us with an eloquent explanation of why the bill should go down in flames. [read post]
18 Jul 2019, 5:23 pm
In his latest encomium for Senator Elizabeth Warren, The Economist's Lexington columnist tells us that has a pan for everything. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 7:15 am
Department of Agriculture that would reduce the use of potatoes, including white potatoes, in school lunches, to a total of one cup per week. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 8:15 am
Liu suggests that the Constitution should be interpreted using the “evolving norms and traditions of our society. [read post]
