Senator Dianne Feinstein to lead on gun issue

By Kathy Groob | December 16, 2012

Huffington Post– In the wake of Friday’s mass killing at an elementary school in Connecticut, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Sunday that she plans to introduce an assault weapons ban bill on the first day of the new Congress. “I’m going to introduce in the Senate, and the same bill will be introduced in the…

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What Hillary wants

By Kathy Groob | December 11, 2012

What Hillary wants. Never has so much been written (and spoken) about a politician so unknowable. Over the weekend, the New York Times published a lengthy piece about soon-to-be-former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and whether she might run for president. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who is regarded as a likely 2016 candidate in his own right,…

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Nita Lowey breaks barrier on Appropriations panel

By Kathy Groob | December 5, 2012

 By David Rogers for POLITICO  Rep. Nita Lowey — Bronx-born, Jewish and Mount Holyoke-educated — was tapped to be the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, making her the highest-ranking woman in the history of that once hidebound Southern male enclave that famously resisted hiring even female secretaries for decades. The 75-year-old…

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