Wanna know what lawmakers did today? What they said in committee, on the floor, on the news shows and elsewhere? What articles, shows, Internet videos and more grabbed their attention? Who sniped at whom, and why? Get the inside scoop at “Hill Tweet News,” a Twitter-based service of AirCongress.
Here are today’s Top 5 tweets, followed by the rest of today’s edition of “Hill Tweet News“:
- @donmanzullo Getting calls from nonprofits upset with president’s plan to hike taxes on charitable contributions for upper incomes.
- @TomCoburn Competitive bidding amendment: failed: 38-57, Emmett Till Amendment failed, 37-58.
- @HouseTransInf Water Subcommittee approved clean water investment bill. Full Committee marks up tomorrow.
- @SciTechCmte Chairman Gordon said, “Water is too valuable a resource for us to manage in a crisis-by-crisis fashion.”
- @SenatorMenendez Pressing Homeland Security to keep working toward 100% scanning of incoming cargo by 2012. … They are wavering.
More after the jump »
Categories: Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Security, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, Robert Menendez, Environment, Budget, Economy, Natural Resources, Claire McCaskill, Hill Tweet News
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This video, inspired by the campaign theme that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama reiterated a week ago today during his victory speech in South Carolina, is traveling rapidly around the Internet.
I saw it via Ann Althouse, who called the video “some amazing, low-key brilliance. It’s lovely in so many ways, one of which is that it makes Barack Obama seem to be a man whose mere speech is singing.”
Categories: South Carolina, Politics, Barack Obama
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President Bush delivered his final State of the Union address last night, and CapNews.Net has posted the full speech online:
Reactions to the speech also are making their way onto the Internet. Here are video commentaries from: Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.; Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif.; Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y.; Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation
Categories: New York, California, South Carolina, Producer's Picks, Jim DeMint, State Of The Union, Louise Slaughter, Mike Honda
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Barack Obama trounced Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in the South Carolina Democratic primary yesterday, and his victory speech is winning rave reviews. His speech after a win in Iowa three weeks ago also earned praise.
Here are both speeches:
Categories: South Carolina, Producer's Picks, Politics, Barack Obama
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If you want the truth about John McCain, just ask Mike Huckabee.
That’s the message of an advertisement that McCain’s presidential team posted online today. It features Huckabee singing the praises of his top rival for the Republican nomination in tomorrow’s South Carolina primary. Here’s one Huckabee quote about McCain: “John McCain’s a hero in this country; he’s a hero to me.”
The ad is brilliant strategy, and the timing is perfect.
Here are two other recent online candidate ads, one by McCain and one by Rudy Giuliani, another of his GOP rivals:
Categories: South Carolina, Politics, Barack Obama, John McCain, AdWatch, Mike Huckabee
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