Just days before his authority to conduct military action in Libya is set to run out, the Obama administration refused to provide today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Libya with a Department of Defense witness. Ranking Member Dick Lugar, R-Ind., was not amused:
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More than half of Texas Republican primary voters are undecided about whom they would nominate to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Tex, according to a Texas Tribune poll released yesterday. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst comes in second at 27 percent, with everyone else (including all of the conservative favorites) in single digits, probably the result of name recognition.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s initial attempt to grant back-door amnesty to children of illegal immigrants went down to defeat this afternoon as a motion to invoke cloture failed in the Senate by a vote of 56-43. Sixty votes were needed to end debate and proceed to SB 3454, the Defense Department reauthorization bill.
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