<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill  : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/"/><tagline>Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill  : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-11-19T00:46:46+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68232/1/" /><id>68232</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill ]]></summary><issued>2008-07-09T22:11:22+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-09T22:11:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Bowing to President Bush's demands, the Senate approved and sent the White House a bill Wednesday to overhaul bitterly disputed rules on secret government eavesdropping and shield telecommunications companies from lawsuits complaining they helped the U.S. spy on Americans.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate approves bill to broaden wiretap powers]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68307/1/" /><id>68307</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate approves bill to broaden wiretap powers]]></summary><issued>2008-07-10T12:25:31+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-10T12:25:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a major expansion of the government&#8217;s surveillance powers, handing President Bush one more victory in a series of hard-fought clashes with Democrats over national security issues. As most of you may know, I am a huge Obama fan and am saddened to see him voting in support of this (even though he said he wouldn't).]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bush is A commander guy, not THE commander guy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19102/1/" /><id>19102</id><summary><![CDATA[Bush is A commander guy, not THE commander guy]]></summary><issued>2007-05-05T02:10:12+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-05T02:10:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The White House is trying to clarify something: President George W Bush is ''a commander guy'' but not ''the commander guy.''<br/><br/>Or something like that.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Is Gonzales Next Bush, Rove and Cheney Fall Guy?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/13292/1/" /><id>13292</id><summary><![CDATA[Is Gonzales Next Bush, Rove and Cheney Fall Guy?]]></summary><issued>2007-03-16T00:24:47+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-16T00:24:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Does anyone notice a trend in the Bush administration:<ul style='list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 0px 10px;'><li class='li'>Passing the buck and setting up others to be fall guys<br/><li class='li'>Truckloads of lies, deception and half truths<br/><li class='li'>Lack of accountability</ul>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate passes bill to hurt the taxpayers]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/78497/1/" /><id>78497</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate passes bill to hurt the taxpayers]]></summary><issued>2008-10-01T23:22:21+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-01T23:22:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Senate voted 74-25 to pass a *slightly* different bill than the house voted down.<br/><br/>Yay! [/sarcasm]<br/><br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00213" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Vote Record</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New Bill Could Make You a &quot;Terrorist&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/43664/1/" /><id>43664</id><summary><![CDATA[New Bill Could Make You a &quot;Terrorist&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-12-09T05:16:32+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-09T05:16:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent.&quot;<br/><br/>This blog summarizes the bill and links to the full text.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bush seeks new Iraq funding bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/15874/1/" /><id>15874</id><summary><![CDATA[Bush seeks new Iraq funding bill]]></summary><issued>2007-04-11T10:36:13+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-11T10:36:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[US President George W Bush invited Democrats to the White House on Tuesday to discuss a standoff over a bill that provides for more than $100 billion to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bush Spy Bill Stance Called Fear-Mongering]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50706/1/" /><id>50706</id><summary><![CDATA[Bush Spy Bill Stance Called Fear-Mongering]]></summary><issued>2008-02-15T07:59:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-15T07:59:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The administration admitted that the sweeping domestic surveillance originated in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks. However, declassified documents obtained by the National Security Archive and testimony that is part of these lawsuits suggest the National Security Agency program was put into place shortly after Mr. Bush was inaugurated, long before 9/11.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[House planning veto showdown over Iraq]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/41241/1/" /><id>41241</id><summary><![CDATA[House planning veto showdown over Iraq]]></summary><issued>2007-11-09T21:37:53+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-09T21:37:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[House Democrats are planning another veto showdown with President Bush on the Iraq war. And this time, they say they won't back down.<br/><br/>*I'm not holding my breath.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The $2 Bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/56777/1/" /><id>56777</id><summary><![CDATA[The $2 Bill]]></summary><issued>2008-04-02T15:04:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-02T15:04:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A guy stops off at his local Taco Bell after work and decides to pay with a $2 bill instead of a $50 to make things easier for the cashier.<br/><br/>Hilarity and Asshatery ensue.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Congresman takes $40k bribe to steal $10 million]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/31788/1/" /><id>31788</id><summary><![CDATA[Congresman takes $40k bribe to steal $10 million]]></summary><issued>2007-08-16T01:22:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-16T01:22:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In 2005, Rep. Don Young (R-AK)waited until after the House and Senate passed a bill, but before the president signed it, to forge a passage granting $10 million for an interstate in Florida. His new wording targeted the money to a more specific project to connect Coconut Rd to that interstate. It's a boon for developer Daniel Aronoff, who held a $40,000 fundraiser for Young just before the earmark appeared.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bush Vetoes Children's Health Bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/44060/1/" /><id>44060</id><summary><![CDATA[Bush Vetoes Children's Health Bill]]></summary><issued>2007-12-13T09:41:38+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-13T09:41:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The measure would provide $60 billion over the next five years, $35 billion more than current spending and $30 billion more than the president proposed. Mr. Bush and his backers argue that the bill would be a step toward federalization of health care, and that it would steer the program away from its core purpose of providing insurance for poor children and toward covering children from middle-class families.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[State Senate OK's gun-at-work bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57639/1/" /><id>57639</id><summary><![CDATA[State Senate OK's gun-at-work bill]]></summary><issued>2008-04-09T19:22:00+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-09T19:22:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In the three-year duel over whether citizens should be allowed to conceal their firearms in locked vehicles at work, state lawmakers have decided Florida business owners will have to bite the bullet.<br/><br/>The possibilities for stories here is endless]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[US economy plan fails in Senate]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/49680/1/" /><id>49680</id><summary><![CDATA[US economy plan fails in Senate]]></summary><issued>2008-02-06T23:26:58+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-06T23:26:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A more generous version of the economic stimulus plan than the one proposed by US President George W Bush has failed to find enough support in the Senate.<br/><br/><i>It's dead, Jim, dead...</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bush enacts military commissions bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/3472/1/" /><id>3472</id><summary><![CDATA[Bush enacts military commissions bill]]></summary><issued>2006-10-17T13:47:22+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-17T13:47:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[U.S. President George Bush signed a bill into law Tuesday that protects CIA agents from litigation and provides military trials for terror suspects.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Listen Up, Pirates Of The Internet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79590/1/" /><id>79590</id><summary><![CDATA[Listen Up, Pirates Of The Internet]]></summary><issued>2008-10-16T03:39:33+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-16T03:39:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[President George W. Bush signed into law on Monday a controversial bill that would stiffen penalties for movie and music piracy at the federal level.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powers]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/50425/1/" /><id>50425</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powers]]></summary><issued>2008-02-13T11:46:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-13T11:46:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As well as to grant legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush&#8217;s program of eavesdropping without warrants. <br/><br/>Hooray for freedom!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New Emails Obtained Suggest White House Aides Lied about Firings]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/13275/1/" /><id>13275</id><summary><![CDATA[New Emails Obtained Suggest White House Aides Lied about Firings]]></summary><issued>2007-03-15T21:53:33+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-15T21:53:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Just breaking, MTB has obtained excerpts from the leaked emails suggesting the WHite House targeted federal attorneys for firing because they were not &quot;Bush loyalists&quot;<br/>Another Bush administration scandal, lies and cover-ups. <br/><br/>This update provides access to the actual email and may be the first place on the Internet to find it.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bush Vetoes Water Bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/40535/1/" /><id>40535</id><summary><![CDATA[Bush Vetoes Water Bill]]></summary><issued>2007-11-03T18:08:23+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-03T18:08:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Bush objected to $9 billion in projects added during negotiations between the House and Senate. <br/><br/>It appears certain Bush will have his veto overridden for the first time in his presidency.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate backs anti-discrimination bill for gays and lesbians]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59111/1/" /><id>59111</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate backs anti-discrimination bill for gays and lesbians]]></summary><issued>2008-04-21T08:38:31+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-21T08:38:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The measure (Senate Bill 200) takes the state's current anti-discrimination laws and adds sexual orientation to the list of things, such as race or national origin, that can't be considered.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate votes 97-1 to halt oil reserve shipments]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61701/1/" /><id>61701</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate votes 97-1 to halt oil reserve shipments]]></summary><issued>2008-05-13T17:04:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-13T17:04:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Senate voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government's emergency reserve. Both Democrats and Republicans said such shipments make no sense when oil is costing more than $120 a barrel.]]></content></entry></feed>