dcexaminer.com - 2/12/2009
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Who will investigate the Obama administration? By Byron York Chief political correspondent 2/12/09 The census controversy brings the first test of accountability and oversight in the new administration Rep. Darrell Issa is not working from a position of strength. As the ranking Republican on the ...
dcexaminer.com - 2/9/2009
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The Happy Party By Byron York Chief Political
Correspondent 2/8/09 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky....
discusses the Republican viewpoint on the economic stimulus package as he meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, ...
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foxnews.com - 2/13/2009
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foxnews.com —
A Republican lawmaker is calling for an investigation
of President Obama's plan to move the U.S. census...
into the White House. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is sending a letter to committee leaders ...
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GOP Lawmaker Calls for Probe of Obama Decision to ...
newsbusters.org - 2/19/2009
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newsbusters.org —
If Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) is not trying
to investigate conservatives, he is trying to squelch their...
voices. Waxman has jumped into the so-called Fairness Doctrine discussion as of late. Waxman, however, has added another dimension to the issue ...
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Rep. Henry Waxman Wants To Apply Censorship Doctrine To ...
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BYRON YORK: Who Will Investigate the Obama Administration? “The census controversy brings the firs…
Instapundit —
... BYRON YORK: Who Will Investigate the Obama Administration? “The census controversy brings the first test of accountability and oversight in the new administration.” ...
Judd Gregg: Profile in Courage
Pundits Blog —
... the bill; the public hasn't seen it yet. More troubling is President Obama's decision to end the Department of Commerce's oversight of the census and instead have the census director report directly to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. In making the Commerce secretary impotent on the census, as we prepare for the 2010 census and the congressional redistricting that comes with it, Obama sets a dangerous precedent done solely for political purposes. It's a precedent on which, as Byron York noted in today's Washington Examiner , congressional Democrats have shown no ...
About the Census, accountability, and oversight
Sister Toldjah —
... Byron York, now writing for the DC Examiner, has an excellent piece published about the troubling nature of the Obama administration’s decision to essentially seize control of the Census from the Commerce Dept, which is one of the reasons Sen. Gregg gave for withdrawing his nomination: ...
“Like a fire bell in the night”
Belmont Club —
Byron York describes the current battle over who controls the Census Bureau. For centuries, not just in the US, the question of how many belong what sides of the political fence has been key to determining legitimacy. In Lebanon, for example, there ...
Training wheels coming off Obama express?
Pundit Review —
... This is what happens when you elect someone to the highest job in the land who has no real political exprience, no real world experience, who has never created a job or run a business. The only business Obama has ever been interested in is Obama, Inc. First Judd Gregg, his latest Commerce nominee, withdrew because of the sour taste left by the stimulus and his principled opposition to Obama’s audacious plan to move the 2010 census from the Commerce Dept. to the control of the White House. Can you imagine if Bush tried to politicize the census? Just imagine the howls from the ...
Obama & Dems: Put your dreams away…
The Anchoress —
... care about about anyone else’s dreams.
Now we read that Bill Clinton, desperate for some attention, is joining in on the cheap “end free speech as we know it” campaign that is distinctly the province of the left - the “tolerant” people who would censor a different point of view. They’ll try to regulate free speech on the internet, soon enough.
No good will come of any of this, and we have no free press, questioning anything.
America has long-attracted ...
$13-a-Week Stimulus Working 4 U?
The Anchoress —
... Byron York’s Question: Who will Investigate the Obama Administration. If you guess no one, and particularly not the press that carried him to the White House, you’re correct. ...
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Sen. Judd Gregg is the second person to withdraw from consideration for the post of Commerce Secretary in the Obama administration. (Photo Credit: Getty Images/File)
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