Lieberman Requests $42.9 Billion For Homeland Security

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) requests $42.9 billion to be allocated to the Department of Homeland Security. Lieberman highlights that the focal point of this new bill is first responders (firefighters, medical personnel) since they have proved to be an essential part of homeland security in the past. (0:37)
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Congressman Sestak On Arlen Specter

By Michael Ruhl, University of New Mexico – Talk Radio News Service

Regarding Arlen Specter changing parties, Congressman Joe Sestak (D-Penn.) said that it's better for the constituents of Pennsylvania to decide which candidate should win the primary. He feels like the Democratic National Party backing Specter may be giving him too much of an advantage in the Pennsylvania primary. President Barack Obama and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) have already committed to personally supporting Specter in his 2010 election. (00:47)
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Supreme Court: No Live Streaming Of Oral Arguments

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

In response to a question by Congressman John Culberson (R-TX), at the House Appropriations Committee Meeting on the Supreme Court budget for the fiscal year 2010, about whether the Supreme Court would consider showing posting video of their oral arguments on their website for the public to see, Justice Clarence Thomas said, "We have discussed that, and discussed it and discussed it." In concluding his point he hinted that their was disagreement amongst the Supreme Justices' on whether this change would be harmful to the institution.
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Justice Breyer Asks For New Courthouses

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

At a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee today on the Supreme Court budget for the fiscal year 2010, Justice Stephen Breyer told the committee that "If you do have a Judge you do have to have a courtroom and in Los Angeles there is a big hole in the ground," in response to a question from Congressman John Culberson (R-TX) on how Congress could help them with their workload.
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Four Suggestions For Census Bureau

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Dr. Robert Hill, sociologist and former chair of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Advisory Committee on the African American Population makes four suggestions that he believes will improve the efficiency of the 2010 Consensus Bureau.


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2010 Census will Cost Double 2000 Census

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla) tells the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security, today, that the 2010 Census will cost more than double the Census conducted in 2000.
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Secretary Gate's personal view that a "modest" amount of troops will remain in Iraq after 2011

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, backed up President Obama's statement today, in a conference cal,l that all U.S. combat troops will be out of Iraq by August 31, 2010 and that all U.S. troops would leave Iraq by 2011. Gates said that if Iraqi forces asked for U.S. troops to remain, he believed people "should be prepared to have a very modest size presence" remaining in Iraq.
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Secretary Gates: Non-combat troops left in Iraq after 2010 will have combat capability

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates hosted a conference call where he discussed Obama's strategy to end the war in Iraq. Following the President's lead, Gates said, that all combat troops will be out of Iraq by August 31, 2010, but the non-combat troops left in Iraq "will have combat capability."
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