Russell Feingold
Russell Feingold
Russell Dana "Russ" Feingoldis a lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He is a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2016, and previously served as a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from January 3, 1993 to January 3, 2011. From 1983 to 1993, Feingold was a Wisconsin State Senator representing the 27th District...
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There can be debate about whether the law should be changed (but) the idea that the President can just make up a law, in violation of his oath of office, has to be answered.
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The president has, I think, made up a law that we never passed.
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It's an unusual step. It's a big step, but what the president did by consciously and intentionally violating the constitution and laws of this country with this illegal wiretapping has to be answered.
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Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,
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At such a time it would just seem hardly justified to schedule a pay raise for members of Congress.
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While the president has now given four speeches ... the American public, the Iraqi people and our brave troops still don't have any clarity about the U.S. military mission in Iraq.
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Mr. Chairman, if those items could be entered in the record?
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One reason I voted for him and voted against Alberto Gonzalez (for attorney general) is that Gonzalez could not find the words to say that torture is illegal and that the President is not above the law. Roberts could.
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None of us want it to expire. It is only the president who is basically playing chicken with us.
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No one should make the mistake of thinking that a shorter extension will make it possible to jam the unacceptable conference report through the Congress. That bill is dead and cannot be revived.
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Business is finding out that this is the biggest domestic issue. I'm doing everything I can, but Congress should be spending a lot more time on it.
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no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame.
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I tell you, he's President George Bush, not King George Bush. This is not the system of government we have and that we fought for.
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It is not undignified to ask the nominee questions he would rather not answer, should he prefer to remain inscrutable, or worse yet, all things to all people.