Posts Tagged ‘jeff-flake’

Congress goes where no Congress has gone before

September 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments

It’s reached an all-time low. The House of Representatives, on the heels of an impassioned and lively debate, voted Tuesday to formally admonish Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., for accusing the president of lying during a joint session of Congress a week ago. The vote was 240-179. Five lawmakers voted “present.” Here’s what they voted on: [...]

Jack Murtha and the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure

July 18th, 2007 | No Comments

Jack Murtha pushed through one of those earmarks everyone loves to pick on. This one is for a paltry $1,000,000 to go to a company called Concurrent Technologies to manage something called the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure. Representative Jeff Flake couldn’t figure out if the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure even existed, so he [...]