Tag Archives: Chambliss

Finally, a response from our senators

By Tom Crawford | Published: October 20, 2009

We reported a couple of weeks ago the U.S. Senate’s passage of a defense spending bill that included an amendment drafted by Minnesota Sen. Al Franken prohibiting government contracts from being given to companies that won’t let their employees go to court if they have been raped or sexually assaulted in the workplace.

Those sex-lovin' senators

By Tom Crawford | Published: October 8, 2009

Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota has demonstrated this week why he is so irritating to the pundits on talk radio and other conservative fronts. The newbie senator introduced an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill that would punish contractors if they “restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.”

Read Tom's Blog | Tags: Chambliss , Ensign , Franken , Isakson , rape of women working for defense contractors , Vitter

Strange days, indeed

By Tom Crawford | Published: July 30, 2009

Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson announced Thursday they will vote against the confirmation of federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. But there’s something weird about this.

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A brief outbreak of sanity in Congress

By Tom Crawford | Published: July 22, 2009

Rare it is when members of Congress turn a deaf ear to the demands of their fat-cat lobbyist contributors and actually vote not to spend money on a huge pile of crap – but that’s what happened in the Senate this week as senators, prodded by President Barack Obama, voted 58-40 to kill Saxby Chambliss’ [...]

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