The Senate voted Thursday to block a looming tax increase averaging $2,000 for millions of taxpayers after Senate Republicans succeeded in thwarting a Democratic plan to also raise taxes on investors. ...more

December 7, 2007

A budget dispute erupted into a full-scale battle Tuesday as President Bush vetoed the Democrats' top-priority domestic spending bill and the party's Senate leader threatened to withhold war funding if the president does not agree to pull out of Iraq. ...more

November 14, 2007

Following sometimes bitter debate, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-8 on Tuesday to send Michael Mukasey's nomination as attorney general to the Senate floor, where confirmation is expected soon. ...more

November 7, 2007

A defiant Democratic-controlled Congress voted Thursday to provide health insurance to an additional 4 million lower-income children, and President Bush vowed swiftly to cast his second-straight veto on the issue. ...more

November 2, 2007

Froma Harrop, in her column "Democrats Are Normal People," takes Newt Gingrich to task for calling Democrats "the enemies of normal people." She went on to say, "Democrats have emerged as the champions of horse sense and competent government." When the Iranians grabbed our embassy and our people, then President Jimmy Carter showed "horse sense" and allowed them to be held for 444 days thus showing the world that we were cowards and wouldn't fight back. These Democrats worship at the altar of secular humanism. Their most sacred sacrament is to preserve the perceived right of a woman to have her baby slaughtered as 41 million have been killed since 1973. The second most sacred sacrament is to promote and support homosexuals and lesbian, gay marriage and all other deviant lifestyles. ...more

October 12, 2007