The vote, which officially started at approximately 5:30pm ET, came to a close just before 11:00pm ET tonight after Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) got back from Mansfield, OH after attending a wake for his late …

New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg (R), after being considered as Commerce Secretary, withdrew himself after watching the [lack of] stimulus debate and the move of Census from Commerce.
Here’s the video, courtesy of FreedomsLighthouse.com.
RedState.com’s commentary:
The media …

It looks like the Senate came up with a deal on the so-called stimulus bill:
Senate Democratic leaders struck a deal with a handful of moderate Republicans late Friday on a leaner economic-recovery package and pushed …

CNN reports that House Republican leaders have created a listing of some of the pork in the stimulus bill being debated by the Senate:
• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power …

Update: From RedState.com:
Results from a new Rasmussen Reports survey released today shows that only 37% of those polled now favor the Democrat’s idea of stimulus, while 43% oppose it and 20% cannot make up their minds. …
Even …

This from Jake Tapper at his blog at ABCNews.com:
An Obama administration official tells ABC News that Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., is now the leading candidate for Commerce Secretary and could be announced as soon as …

There are many reasons to believe that only a slight handful of GOP Senators are going to be proverbially peeled away from the caucus to vote for this thing. For starters:
It seems the House passed …

This issue was first brought up to me by Mountain Publius Goat on my recent interview with Mark McGrew with further reporting from RovingPatrolBlog:
US Code Title 3,15

Counting electoral votes in congress
§ 15.   Congress shall be in …

It’s actually going to happen:
WASHINGTON – Eager to put the scandal-tainted standoff behind them, Senate Democrats accepted Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate successor on Monday and said they expect to swear in the new Illinois senator this week.
“He …

Judicial Watch is filing the suit on behalf of a concerned citizen, John Vincent, against the US Senate, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Sergeant at Arms of the US Senate:
Washington, DC — January …

Peachpundit.com has posted an article saying that Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) has introduced a bill that would move the federal election day from the first Tuesday in November to the first weekend in November:
Yesterday, on …

* There are a few strings attached:
[W]e already knew that Senator Dianne Feinstein has repudiated the letter she signed that opposed any Blagojevich pick - thanks for showing fear, Senator; we’ll be sure to keep it in …

Moe Lane, one of the bloggers at RedState.com, posted the following commentary — so well done, I’m copying it in entirety:
And so it begins.
Secretary of the Senate rejects Burris appointment
(CNN) – The secretary of the …

From Drudge (via MSNBC.com and FreeRepublic.com — here as well; MSNBC video from hotair.com), in what might be construed as the first political fallout of US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s 90-day extension request for indicting Illinois …

From FreeRepublic.com, we may now know why US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald asked for a 90-day extension (via Chicago Sun-Times):
Prosecutors revealed Wednesday that they captured “thousands of phone calls” on secret wiretaps in their investigation into Gov. Blagojevich.
The …

The really descriptive part comes from ChicagoBreakingNews.com:
WASHINGTON — As U.S. Senate leadership developed an elaborate set of contingency plans today to keep Roland Burris from taking over President-elect Barack Obama’s seat, the disputed appointee promised …

From RedState.com, it is very likely that Barack Hussein Obama will be forced into his first major political play of his national career (you’ll see why taking a “present” position would not bode well for …