Family members of wounded veterans would be eligible for benefits under the Family and Medical Leave Act for six months under language co-authored by Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. The proposal has the support of both Democratic and Republican senators.
“Imagine if your husband or wife, or your son or your daughter, had been injured,” Clinton said on the Senate floor. “You’d want to be with them and want to take care of them. But you wouldn’t want to lose your job in the process. It’s not a choice that military families should take.”
Categories: Military, New York, Connecticut, Labor, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Christopher Dodd
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Democrat Hillary Clinton gets more attention as a presidential candidate these days, but shortly after 4 a.m. today, she was the focal point in the Senate chamber, where New York voters last fall sent her to serve a second six-year term.
“The right strategy before the surge and the right strategy now, post-escalation, is the same,” Clinton said in the Senate’s all-night debate about the Iraq war. “Start bringing our troops out of this multi-sided, sectarian civil war.”
Later in the day, after a change of clothes, Clinton took to the floor again to talk about higher education. She touted a bill that, among other things, would authorize the largest increase in Pell grants in more than a decade and implement a “student borrower bill of rights” designed to protect them while they repay their loans.
Categories: New York, Iraq, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Presidency 2008, Hillary Clinton, Education
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With Senate Democrats vowing to force Republicans into a literal filibuster over the Iraq war rather than a procedural one, House Democrats apparently don’t want to miss out on all of the fun. The leadership in the lower chamber coordinated a series of “one-minute speeches” at the beginning of today’s floor debate.
The Gavel, the blog maintained by the staff of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., published video and pullout quotes of some of the speeches, and Pelosi’s office posted more of them to YouTube. Here are links:
Categories: Maryland, New York, California, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Tennessee, Iraq, Democrats, Steve Cohen, Keith Ellison, John Hall, Hank Johnson, John Sarbanes, Albio Sires, Russ Carnahan, Frank Pallone, Tom Udall, Zoe Lofgren
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Video excerpts from a joint hearing of two House Foreign Affairs subcommittees:
Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y.
Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif.
David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security
Categories: New York, California, Foreign Affairs, Gary Ackerman, Brad Sherman
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That’s what the AFL-CIO has been doing online and offline all week. One of the labor group’s tactics has been posting video excerpts from speeches by lawmakers who support legislation to make it easier to form unions. Here are the latest Senate floor excerpts:
Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio
Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.
Patty Murray, D-Wash.
James Webb, D-Va.
Plus more from Democratic Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania; Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer, both of New York; Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota; and Bob Menendez of New Jersey.
Earlier this month, the AFL-CIO also aired an advertisement on the issue and posted the ad to YouTube.
Categories: Virginia, James Webb, New York, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, Labor, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Bob Casey, Amy Klobuchar, Sherrod Brown, Frank Lautenberg, Robert Menendez, Patty Murray, Charles Schumer
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