The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm former federal judge Michael Mukasey as the next attorney general but not without a pointed debate about his qualifications. The final vote was 53-40.
Courtesy of CapNews.Net, here are excerpts of the debate from: Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He officially announced his candidacy today in an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”
“Things are started to coalesce and I feel very, very optimistic about my future,” Thompson said. “I am the reliable conservative. My record shows that. All that people have to do is look at my record, and I am one individual that they can count on.”
This week’s show also featured an appearance by Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill.
The guests at NBC’s “Meet the Press,” meanwhile included Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and panel member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, discussing the future of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., talking about tax policy.
Podcasts, video blogs, YouTube freebies — you name it and the online innovators of mainstream media have it. Now you don’t have to go looking for it. Starting today, AirCongress is instituting a new feature called the Monster Media MashUp[tm].
I’ll keep tabs on the latest policy- and politics-related audio and video produced by outlets like Bloomberg, C-SPAN, the major television networks and more, and pull them together in recurring entries like this one. If I’m missing content that you think should be in the roundup, shoot me an e-mail.
So without further ado, here’s the first episode of the AirCongress Monster Media MashUp[tm]:
ABC
(Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. and John Cornyn, R-Texas, on the firings of U.S. attorneys)
Bloomberg
(Firings of U.S. attorneys)
(Defaults on subprime mortgage loans and changes to the 2002 accounting law known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act)
CBS
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on the firings of U.S. attorneys)
C-SPAN
(Viacom’s $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google over content on its YouTube video-sharing site)
(White House adviser Karl Rove at Troy University)
(Interview with SCOTUSblog reporter Lyle Denniston)
The National Conference for Media Reform over the weekend in Memphis, Tenn., featured a handful of lawmakers and other officials as speakers, and the Save the Internet coalition has footage:
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein
Subscribe to RSS