Kucinich raises Bush impeachment at hearing
By Jared Allen / The Hill Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) asked members of the House Judiciary Committee to consider his calls to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney as a colorful hearing on executive power opened on Friday. The primary purpose of the hearing on the “constitutional limitations” of ...
Baldwin makes a call for impeachment hearings
By John Nichols / Capital Times Declaring that "there is no task more important for this Congress than to seriously consider whether our nation's leaders have violated their oath of office," Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin on Friday morning told the House Judiciary Committee, "I now firmly believe that impeachment hearings are ...
Big Crowd Gathers For House Judiciary Hearing On Bush "impeachment"
By John Bresnahan / The Politico A boisterous crowd has already gathered for today's hearing in the House Judiciary Committee on the case for impeaching Presidnent Bush and Vice President Cheney. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has been leading the charge on the issue, and although Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and ...
Judiciary releases witness list for Kucinich "impeachment" hearing
The Politico The House Judiciary Committee has released its witness list for Friday's hearing on Rep. Dennis Kucinich's (D-Ohio) impeachment resolution. One big surprise — a House Republican will testify. Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), a huge critic of President Bush's policy in Iraq, is scheduled to appear before the Judiciary ...
Impeachment backers gear up for hearing
by Sabrina Eaton / Cleveland Plain Dealer Impeachment backers including anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan and Republican constitutional law scholar Bruce Fein held a press conference this afternoon in anticipation of tomorrow's House Judiciary Committee hearing on the "imperial presidency" of George W. Bush and possible legal responses to it. While ...
Cindy Sheehan Set to Challenge Pelosi
FOX News Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is set to challenge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for her California congressional seat. After filing papers for the seat in April, Sheehan told The National Press Club Thursday she’s going through with her campaign plans. Sheehan, a California resident without a party affiliation, ...
Appealing to Bloggersâ?? Influence, Gore Asks for Help in Promoting Energy Challenge
By Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times AUSTIN, Tex. — Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, was asked a question here at a bloggers conference about energy. Ms. Pelosi glanced at her BlackBerry, noting that she had an e-mail message from a friend on that very subject. With ...
300 Advisers Shape Obamaâ??s Foreign Policy
By Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times WASHINGTON — Every day around 8 a.m., foreign policy aides at Senator Barack Obama’s Chicago campaign headquarters send him two e-mails: a briefing on major world developments over the previous 24 hours and a set of questions, accompanied by suggested answers, that the ...
Conyers to hold hearings on Bush presidency
By Deb Price / Detroit News WASHINGTON -- Rep. John Conyers announced Thursday he will hold Judiciary Committee hearings next week on the "imperial" Bush presidency -- a step the Detroit Democrat's allies on the political left quickly trumpeted as "impeachment begins." Conyers, however, was careful in his news releases ...
Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on Bush conduct, impeachment not on agenda
By Laurie Kellman / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Rep. Dennis Kucinich's single impeachment article will get a committee hearing — but not on removing President Bush from office. The House on Tuesday voted 238-180 to send his article of impeachment — for Bush's reasoning for taking the country to war ...
Republican Candidate Protests His Own Party
By Brad Haynes / Wall Street Journal The GOP challenger to Rep. Heath Shuler suspended his campaign — in protest of his own party. Carl Mumpower dropped all campaign activity against first-term Democrat Shuler in North Carolina’s 11th district until Republican Party committees in at least half of the district’s ...
Kucinich May Get Hearing On Impeachment Resolution
By Molly K. Hooper / CQ Politics The House Judiciary Committee may let anti-war Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich present his case for impeaching President Bush before the August recess, the panel’s chairman said Monday. Chairman John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., said Judiciary will take a broad look at the behavior of ...
Cotati council votes to impeach Bush, Cheney
By Mary Callahan / Santa Rosa Press Democrat COTATI, CA — The Cotati City Council is the third in Sonoma County to weigh in on impeachment for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The council voted 3-2 Wednesday night to approve a resolution calling for impeachment proceedings ...
Kucinich to Present Impeachment Case to Panel
By Molly K. Hooper / CQ Politics Democratic leaders have agreed to give Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich a day before the House Judiciary Committee to make his case that President Bush ought to be impeached for allegedly lying to Congress in order to get approval to invade Iraq. Kucinich, D-Ohio, ...
Pelosi says House Judiciary may hold hearings on Kucinich impeachment resolution
The Politico Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this morning that the House Judiciary Committee may hold hearings on an impeachment resolution offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). Kucinich is expected to offer a "privileged resolution" this afternoon calling on the House to look at whether President Bush should be removed ...
Impeach Bush? Congress hears Kucinich's resolution in near silence
By Stephen Koff / Cleveland Plain Dealer U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced a single article of impeachment this afternoon against President Bush. But what followed his roughly 35 minutes on the House floor explaining his rationale -- chiefly, that the president misled the nation into a war that has taken ...
Kucinich Tries Again To Impeach Bush
By John Bresnahan / The Politico Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who attempted to introduce 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush last month, is back at again, although this time, Kucinich will only offer one article, according to a letter the Ohio Democrat sent to his colleagues today. Here's the ...
Cotati may call for Bush's impeachment
By Paul Payne / Santa Rosa Press Democrat COTATI, CA — Cotati’s politically liberal City Council on Wednesday is expected to pass a resolution calling for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Cotati would be the third Sonoma County city to approve such a ...
McCain Courts Voters With Lively Town Hall Meeting
Republican Presidential Candidate Outlines Economic Plan KMGH DENVER -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain hosted a lively town hall meeting Monday, fending off calls to impeach President Bush and getting passionate praise for opposing tax increases. Georgette Haddad drew laughs and applause when she told McCain she supported his tax ...
100-plus give a lesson in free speech
By John Henderson / Charlottesville Daily Progress While thousands flocked to hear President Bush speak at Monticello on Friday morning, Dana Palmer stood by the side of Route 20 dressed like Lady Liberty to teach her kids a lesson in free speech. Palmer, her husband and their two children were ...
Satirists hope to toss Bush a gutter ball of a memorial
'George W. Bush Sewage Plant' - sounds like a joke, draws ire By Marisa Lagos / San Francisco Chronicle If you've attended an event or festival in San Francisco lately - or even just hung out at a city park - you've probably seen them. Admittedly, they're hard to miss. ...
By John Bresnahan / The Politico The transformation of Scott McClellan is now officially complete. The former White House press secretary – once the bane of the left for his steadfast defense of the Bush administration – was embraced by Democrats and vilified by Republicans Friday as he testified, voluntarily, ...
Wexler: McClellan's Testimony Justifies Cheney's Impeachment
By John Bresnahan / The Politico Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), one of the most vocal opponents of the Bush administration on Capitol Hill, said Scott McClellan's book and testimony justify the beginning of impeachment hearings against Vice President Dick Cheney. During questioning of McClellan, Wexler asked the former White House ...
U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings says Bush and Cheney deserve to be impeached
By Anthony Man / South Florida Sun-Sentinel U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, says President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney deserve to be impeached for what they've done to the nation. But he voted against an impeachment resolution because it's not a fight worth pursuing with just seven months left ...
Wednesday, a 17-member delegation of Veterans For Peace presented some 23,000 petitions to Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), demanding the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Conyers, chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary, is the Member of Congress with the authority to call for impeachment hearings. Also ...
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