tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116835392011-11-30T21:08:05.346-06:00What he says, we fact-check. What he does, we criticize. What he believes, we don't.Jay Bullockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18303687624670151530noreply@blogger.comBlogger1541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-20559543474968516852011-11-21T18:06:00.001-06:002011-11-21T18:07:02.100-06:00

Big Jim Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin Congressman from hell, goes after those who voted against a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution: My  colleagues ... who voted against this amendment are either  burying their heads in the sand or trying to misrepresent this effort  to score political points. Thing is -- and this has got to be somewhat embarrassing for Big Jim -- one of the "no" votes

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Who knew? Jamie Sensenbrenner and Paulie Ryan BFF? From a Fox6 gusher about Ryan: Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin's longest tenured member of Congress, pushed Ryan to run for Congress... One of the lessons Sensenbrenner taught Ryan early on was to approach the serious job with a sense of humor. Sensenbrenner said, "Not only do the two of us have a sense of humor, but we're very good

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After experiencing a near-collision on a plane in which he was a passenger, frequent world traveler Jim Sensenbrenner got on the phone with the Federal Aviation Administration to demand action, WisPolitics.com reports. "Upon landing at Reagan National Airport, I immediately called the FAA to alert them of the situation and requested that they examine the conditions that led to this near

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Jim Sensenbrenner's stock portfolio has gotten a little ink lately, what with all of his shares in BP not presenting a conflict, in his mind, to him sitting on a panel investigating BP's mess in the Gulf.There's also the annual Journal Sentinel story about the finances of the Wisconsin Congressional delegation, which says Sensenbrenner, who's worth $9.9-million but has disposed of all of his

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Incredible.Rep. F. Jim Sensenbrenner, who always puts himself first, has outdone himself on the BP disaster in the Gulf.AP reports:WASHINGTON — A multimillionaire House Republican who owns thousands of shares of BP stock has no plans to recuse himself from a congressional investigation related to the Gulf oil spill or from votes on Capitol Hill that could affect his investments in the oil

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I've heard of damning with faint praise, but this Capital Times editorial defending Sensenbrenner's honor takes it to a new level. "Jim Sensenbrenner's probably not a crook," the headline says, leaving the dooor open a crack.The "defense" of Sensenbrenner against a claim by the Shepherd-Express concludes:The congressman has been on the wrong side of science, the law and common sense more times

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The House of Representatives can pass all the stinking rules it wants, but nothing's going to get in between Jim Sensenbrenner and a free junket.That's the message in today's New York Times story, where Sensenbrenner gets top billing in the top story on page one:WASHINGTON — Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., a Wisconsin Republican, toured a prince’s vineyard and castle in Liechtenstein

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Big Jim Sensenbrenner is unhappy that (a) Louis Butler has been nominated for a federal judgeship and (b) even more importantly, that Sensenbrenner wasn't consulted. Sniffs Jimbo:"The fact of the matter is that Mr. Butler lost a state-wide election, held by the people of Wisconsin, to continue serving on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court," Sensenbrenner said. "Now, the man who was voted off the bench in

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Big Jim Sensenbrenner isn't one of those politicians who says one thing to one audience and something else to another. Whether he's in Washington, Wisconsin or China, Sensenbrenner sticks to the same kind of unfounded, misleading rationale for ignoring climate change. Cory Liebmann has the details.

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Jim Sensenbrenner's been getting some media mileage with a claim that Democrats want to tax cow flatulence as a way to fight climate change (which he doesn't believe is happening.) Actually, prim and proper F. Jim says farts, not flatulence, because that's more likely to get attention. Only one problem: His "fears" are total bullshit.

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Who says Jim Sensenbrenner doesn't have any empathy for poor folks who are hit hard by the economic recession?He no doubt feels their pain, even if he doesn't vote to offer them much in the way of help.The Journal Sentinel reports that hard times have befallen the Sensenbrenners:The Menomonee Falls Republican reported a net worth of $8.9 million as of March 31, a more than 20% decrease from the

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Separated at the dinner table? Hon. F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. [l] and His Serene Highness Johannes "Hans" Adam Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marko d'Aviano Pius von und zu Liechtenstein, Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf, Count of Rietberg, Reigning Prince of Liechtenstein and Sovereign of the Princely House of Liechtenstein, pictured at Vaduz Castle, the Royal Residence. Lichtensteiners celebrate

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From F. Jim Sensenbrenner, some kind words: some of the goals of the Obama plan are admirable, like improving our economy and reducing the federal debt Unfortunately, he totally disagrees about how to do those things, so will work his heart out to try to stop anything Obama might propose.That was the gist of his message as he announced to the Repubs in his district that he will run again in 2010

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From Milwaukee BizBlog: Dear Congressman Sensenbrenner:I believe it may be time for you to move on.To say I was flabbergasted by what I read this morning about your trip to Liechtenstein would be an understatement.What color is the sun on your planet?Your constituents are fighting for their economic survival. They are struggling to keep their homes. Some of them have been laid-off or

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Long time no post.F. Jim Sensenbrenner seems irrelevant these days.In fact, that's what prompts this post. He doesn't want to be treated like he doesn't matter, even if he doesn't.Now that there is a Democrat in the White House the Democrats control both houses of Congress, and both of Wisconsin's U.S. Senators are Democrats, no one is consulting Sensenbrenner -- who used to be in the loop when

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Sunday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial endorses Jim Burkee, a 40-year-old college professor who began his campaign as a political science experiment: Jim Sensenbrenner has the support of the party apparatus in the 5th Congressional District. He consistently earns high ratings from taxpayer rights groups and conservative organizations. He has a strong sense of constituent service. He’s

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Jim Sensenbrenner makes an admittedly small gesture to help Tibetan refugees, as reported by the International Campaign for Tibet: U.S. Representatives George Miller (D-CA) and Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) introduced the Tibetan Refugee Assistance Act on July 17 to provide 3,000 immigrant visas to long-staying Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal. Congressmen Miller and Sensenbrenner traveled to

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Emergency! Emergency!Those damned entitlement programs are eating up the whole budget, and those damned Democrats won't do anything about it, says Jim Sensenbrenner in a recent op ed. He says, among other things:While these statistics may be shocking to some, my constituents know I have spoken out about this looming crisis for years...In recent years, Republicans in Congress have introduced a

xoffnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-48728096865451941252008-07-10T13:42:00.004-05:002008-07-10T16:01:53.139-05:00

While fielding a candidate for nearly all 99 Assembly seats, Wisconsin Democrats did not find an opponent against Jim Sensenbrenner for the Congressional seat he's held for 30 years. But he has a Republican primary and an independent in November.There is a hot Democratic Assembly primary for Sheldon Wasserman's seat, so that may keep those Democrats in their own primary. Those northern suburbs

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Well, Jim Sensenbrenner's certainly not one to follow the crowd. He has a mind of his own -- or half a mind, anyway.The Journal Sentinel says Big Jim has figured out who's to blame: It's those darn Democrats!Washington - As his Democratic colleagues blamed globalization for some of the problems facing the U.S. economy, Rep. James Sensenbrenner said Tuesday many of those problems are being

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Roll Call, the Capitol Hill insider newspaper, reports: House GOP leaders are privately grumbling about the level of fundraising and donating by some committees’ ranking members, suggesting that would-be chairmen should be steering more money to the party’s effort to retake the majority. Hmmmm. Who could they be talking about? Our guy, Jim Sensenbrenner, didn't accumulate his big campaign

xoffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-3800306464211284922008-06-23T18:31:00.005-05:002008-06-23T18:54:21.772-05:00

Apparently tired of running the same story -- "Herb Kohl richest in Wisconsin delegation" -- every year, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel instead decided to write that all Wisconsin members of Congress are better off than the average Wisconsinite.They led with Gwen Moore, "the least wealthy member of Wisconsin's congressional delegation", saying correctly that her $170,000 salary and the pension

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From Scot Ross at One Wisconsin Now: Gazillionaire Kotex heir F. Jim Sensenbrenner spent today doing his best to keep Wisconsinites who have lost their jobs because of the endless Bush economic policies he has supported away from extended unemployment benefits. Sensenbrenner, famously characterized by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone as…well, read the story here, was the only member of the

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Was it Jim Sensenbrenner's son who leaked the Canadian memo awhile back that caused Barack Obama some problems over his stance on NAFTA?Dan Bice asks the question in the Journal Sentinel "Dogged" blog.Young Sensenbrenner indignantly denies it.And at this point it doesn't much matter.More intriguing are questions of how and why he got the job in the Canadian embassy in Washington in the first

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Last year, Wisconsin legislators raised the driver's license fee by $10 to pay for state compliance with Real ID, the national ID law authored by Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner. The fee, which raised Wisconsin taxes by $22 million, will now be used to balance the Wisconsin state budget.Now Congressman Sensenbrenner is mad. He calls the deal, negotiated by Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch (R-West

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Republicans are eating their young at the state GOP convention, Mike Mathias says, and who's there to get a big helping but Jim Sensenbrenner.We've got to get our metaphors straight, though. Mathias says Sensenbrenner "threw Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch under a bus" by ripping on him for the budget repair bill the GOP Assembly recently passed.But the headline says the GOP are "eating their young

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Why should Jim Sensenbrenner be replaced? Let us count the reasons.So, is no Democrat even going to run? Bad strategy.

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We've been more than a little skeptical and more than a little cynical about Jim Sensenbrenner's challenge by a pair of college professors, a Repub and Dem running in tandem. The Dem dropped out awhile back, but the remaining challenger, the Repub, takes off after F. Jim and lands several solid punches in a Small Business Times commentary.Jim Burkee, the Concordia professor, says, in an article

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F. James Sensenbrenner makes an appearance in Jack Lohman's blog, Moneyed Politicians: My recent visit to Jim Sensenbrenner’s Town Hall meeting would have been comical were it not so sad.Sensenbrenner gets very offended when you imply that we have a corrupt political system. Like, this is the first time he’s heard about it?“The system is working,” Jim says in his defense. “People are in jail!”Of

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Hawaii Reporter:The ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Energy and Global Warming has owned $1.2 million in stock in the oil and gas companies whose executives testified this week before the panel. Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin reported at least $100,000 of his own money in each of four of the five companies represented at Tuesday's hearing -- Exxon, BP, Chevron and

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WisPolitics reports on the recent "Future Wisconsin" conference held by conservatives: U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Menomonee Falls, made a surprise appearance. Sensenbrenner began by giving a dollar to the master of ceremonies, WISN-AM talk radio host Jay Weber. He joked that it was to buy a carbon credit to offset the hot air that he was about to give off. "This issue is back. This issue is

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Its no secret that Rep. F. Jim Sensebrenner is worth big bucks -- somewhere between $21-million and $31-million, according to Open Secrets.Org, a project of the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP).Where does all of that money come from?A good chunk of it goes to Sensenbrenner in his role of Daddy Warbucks,as a major investor in military contractors doing business with the Pentagon.Sensenbrenner

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Even a blind pig, they say, finds an acorn once in awhile: Sensenbrenner calls for action in TibetAfter meeting with the Dalai Lama in India on Friday, GOP Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined in a call for an international team of observers to travel to Tibet and "find out exactly what has happened" during the recent crackdown, Sensenbrenner said in an interview...

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From Bob Hague, a reporter at Wisconsin Radio Network: My encounters with Congressman James Sensenbrenner over the years have been few and far between. Our only face to face meeting must have been sometime in the late '80s, in Rice Lake for a Lincoln Day dinner, if memory serves. So I was interested in a rare opportunity to see Sensenbrenner in action Monday, and in Madison, of all places. The

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Something you'd like to share with Congressman Sensenbrenner? Maybe on a topic like global warming, immigration, government spying, or the war in Iraq?These are some whirlwind meetings, scheduled 45 minutes apart, so have your questions and comments ready:Sensenbrenner will hold listening sessions at 11 a.m. Friday (Feb. 1) at Dousman Village Hall, 11:45 a.m. at Genesee Town Hall, 12:30 p.m. at

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From the Politics Ain't Beanbag Department: A college political science prof who wanted to show the world how campaigns should work is getting a lesson in how they do. Journal Sentinel columnist Dan Bice reports:Two Concordia University professors who launched a joint campaign this year are getting a big lesson in what happens when you mess with U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner.It ain't pretty. In

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Environmental News Service reports: WASHINGTON, DC, January 17, 2008 (ENS) - Key polar bear habitat should be held off limits to oil and gas drilling until federal wildlife officials have determined whether the species should be listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act, the chair of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming said today. "Order matters,"

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The ridiculous two-headed race against Rep. F. Jim Sensenbrenner is over.One of the two college professors running in tandem for the seat -- the Democrat, Jeff Walz -- has dropped out of the race, leaving Sensenbrenner with only a quixotic Republican primary challenger. The idea of two friends, one Dem and one Repub, running jointly was good for some free publicity, but didn't accomplish much

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Professors Tweedledee and Tweedledum have gotten official sanction to raise money jointly in their campaign against Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, even though they are in opposing parties and supposedly running against each other as well as Big Jim.The AP reports:The Federal Election Commission has given the green light to an unusual joint fundraising plan by two candidates from different parties who

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Sensenbrenner "is your basic Fat Evil Prick. . . . He has the requisite moist-with-sweat pink neck, the dour expression, the penchant for pointless bile and vengefulness." Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone did in his new book, Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches From a Rotting Empire. Baltimore City Paper has more.

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From Gristmills, a self-described "blogful of leafy green commentary," an offshoot of Grist, the online environmental magazine: So, the field hearing of the House global warming committee is just getting underway. I was chatting with Rep. Jay Inslee a few minutes ago, when a burly, ruddy-faced man tried to get past us. Inslee said, "Jim, this is David Roberts, he runs a blog with lots of

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50-minute trip for immigration know-it-allsStaten Island ferry enlightensBy Thomas V. DiBaccoNEW YORK - This month marks the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty in New York's Harbor, an event that will go unheralded in large part because the monument is taken for granted today. But it wasn't always that way. When the statue, officially called Liberty Enlightening the World, was dedicated on a

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"A decade after Kyoto, it is clear to me that the [Kyoto] treaty produced far too few results; it is a failure." -- Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner. Do you think it might have produced more results if the US had participated? Sensenbrenner, of course, has a long, bad record on global warming. He calls himself a veteran of the climate wars, but it's hard to tell on which side.

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"I care that the taxpayers' money is being spent in a prudent manner."That was Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner defending himself against charges that he was heartless or uncaring, after he voted against any federal assistance for victims of Hurricane Katrina.Spending $51.8-billion was"throwing money at the problem," he said, and a lot will be wasted, pointing to reports of previous mismanagement of

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A newspaper columnist in Cape May, on the Jersey shore, has a little fun:My cousin Happy showed up today for the weekend. This is a really BIG weekend in the Wildwoods which is why Happy showed up today, to get a head start on the fun.Happy isn’t my cousin’s real name. Neither is Sensenbrenner. He changed his last name to Sensenbrenner when he heard about the lucky Congressman who’s won the

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Just in case you needed further proof that life isn't fair, there's this: MILWAUKEE (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, already a millionaire and heir to the Kimberly-Clark fortune, is on a lucky streak. The Republican hit it big in 1997 with a $250,000 jackpot in the District of Columbia lottery. Then, last spring, he won $1,000 prize in the Wisconsin lottery, and he won another $1,000 in that

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Let you think that Fat Jim has moved even slightly on his hard-line anti-immigrant stance, check the Oconomowoc Focus story this week about his talk to local Kiwanians. Some highlights:"They (illegal immigrants) distort the economy, they take away jobs from the communities, and many times they are paid cash," he said, meaning that often they do not pay taxes for the society they live in... and

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Human Events, which named Sensenbrenner its "Man of the Year" for 2006, reports: HASTERT, PRYCE, WHO’S NEXT? Republicans on Capitol Hill were wondering last week if a GOP retirement flood might be getting under way after former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R.-Ill.) and Representatives Deborah Pryce (R.-Ohio) and Chip Pickering (R.-Miss.) all announced they would not run for re-election next

xoffnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-79482474363169131432007-08-22T10:43:00.000-05:002007-08-22T10:49:48.788-05:00

He never really explained what motivated him, but F. Jim Sensenbrenner single-handedly prevented passage of a tougher federal law against animal fighting -- a law which would have posed much harsher penalties for pro football star Michael Vick, among others.The president of the US Humane Society explains in a Sheboygan Press column:By Wayne Pacelle While National Football League star Michael

xoffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-87128682618880979482007-08-09T09:46:00.000-05:002007-08-09T18:17:40.964-05:00

He's not exactly hurting for dough -- although he's so tight he'd never use his own money to run for office -- but Jim Sensenbrenner's fund-raising has shown some slippage.It seems that the special interests, who give through political action committees, aren't as interested in giving when you're the ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee. When you're raising money, "chairman"

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a “regressive, anti-due process, enforcement proposal that would criminalize 12 million hard-working men and women in one fell swoop.” That's how the American Immigrant Lawyers Assn. characterizes a new endorcement-only immigration bill introduced in the US Senate.It's described as very similar to a House-passed bill from last spring, which prompted huge demonstrations across the country. That

xoffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-60072321637223105322007-07-28T12:59:00.000-05:002007-07-28T13:24:28.317-05:00

From Think Progress:LaHood: 110th Congress has been successful.Rep. Ray LaHood (R-IL), who has a reputation for sometimes “tell[ing] the truth, unvarnished,” offered his assessment of the new Congressional leadership:They’ve had a pretty strong quarter… They can send their members home crowing about their accomplishments, and they’ve done it in a bipartisan way, which is exactly what they

xoffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-40959094521939582412007-07-25T20:54:00.000-05:002007-07-25T21:01:03.988-05:00

The Hill reports: The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday along straight partisan lines to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress, the first concrete step toward a constitutional showdown between the two branches of government. Party line means F. Jim Sensenbrenner voted no, but he did offer an alternative that at

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(DISCLAIMER: I am a contributor, not the operator, of this blog, so these opinions are not necessarily those of the management.)Yesterday, we noted that two professors, one Democrat and one Republican, say they are going to run a joint campaign for Jim Sensenbrenner's Congressional seat. We called the idea wacky.Today, The NY Times takes note, treating it semi-seriously.But lest there was any

xoffnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-79576420788097001992007-07-24T09:12:00.000-05:002007-07-24T09:18:02.645-05:00

This seems more than a little wacky, with two professors seemingly wanting to test their academic theories about what kind of campaign voters want.Be that as it may, two professors -- one Dem, one Repub -- have announced they will run in tandem for Sensenbrenner's Congressional seat next year.Sigh. That may well be enough to keep out any serious challenger. Ken Mobile has more.

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When it comes to global warming, Jim Sensenbrenner wants to have it every which way.He calls himself "a veteran of the climate wars," but it's hard to tell just what it is he's fighting.The Politco reports: As the ranking member of the new Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, Sensenbrenner, 64, finds himself in the curious position of leading his party on a committee he

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The biggest issue in Wales, Wisconsin is illegal immigration? Hard to believe, but that's what the Waukesha paper reports. If that's not scary enough, consider this: A federal immigration reform measure died in the U.S. Senate last week but Sensenbrenner said that isn’t the end the debate. He said he will soon introduce an immigration reform bill that will include discussion on illegal

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F. Jim Sensenbrenner on the House Judiciary Committee hearings: "Now, let me say that this committee has spent $250,000 of the taxpayers' money basically investigating the replacement of U.S. attorneys whose terms had expired," he said. "...It seems to me that with this fishing expedition, there ain't no fish in the water. And we've spent an awful lot of time and an awful lot of money finding

xoffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-62723044535112864932007-05-17T16:01:00.000-05:002007-05-17T16:06:25.529-05:00

Today's news release: In response to the immigration agreement reached by the White House and Senate earlier today, Menomonee Falls Representative Jim Sensenbrenner made the following comments: "This proposal is nothing but a massive amnesty bill that provides expedited visas for millions of illegal immigrants. This "get-out-of-jail-free" card cannot be described as a comprehensive immigration

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See if you can follow this convoluted piece of thinking: OCONOMOWOC - Residents who want the United States to pull its troops out of Iraq should be more upset with the plans put forth by Democrats than with President Bush, said U.S. Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. Let's see ... The Democrats want to bring the troops home, and have voted for a deadline to withdraw them. President Bush doesn't

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That's the tune the F. Jim Sensenbrenners are dancing to. Sing along, if you wish.They love Liechtenstein. And other people love picking up the tab for the Sensenbrenners' visits.Dan Bice has the goods. Ja!

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Always Something There to Remind Us?Think Progress announces that "House Conservatives Appoint Chief Climate Skeptic to Lead Global Warming Panel."That would be, I'm afraid -- our own F. Jim.Once again the 5th CD looks like we have terrible taste in Congress and a low self-regard.The posting goes on:The House of Representatives voted yesterday to create a new congressional committee devoted

krshorewoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00417863312104824551noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-39341806249509784392007-03-04T11:42:00.000-06:002007-03-04T11:54:50.861-06:00

Sensenbrenner tells the Conservative Political Action conference that Republicans lost the last election because they "forgot to be conservatives." Actually, the GOP got its just desserts because it went to war in Iraq under false pretenses and then totally mismanaged the war effort. Real conservatives would not have cooked up or supported that kind of international adventure.Sensenbrenner,

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The Hmong who were US allies in the "secret war" against communists in Laos are considered terrorists under the Patriot Act and Real ID Acts, and are being denied green cards and asylum, the AP reports.Big Jim is his usual compassionate, empathetic self:Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the Wisconsin Republican who was a main driving force behind both the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act as chairman of the

xoffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-53423542405982556702007-02-13T10:58:00.000-06:002007-02-09T22:56:38.116-06:00

"If you want to stop the war, stop the money," said Sensenbrenner. "The Democrat[ic] resolution has no force or effect. The trump card we have is the power of the purse. They have to have the guts to say we are not going to fund it. ..."Sensenbrenner, of course, would never support cutting off the funds. He wants to put Democrats on the spot.But he's right. If you want to stop the war, stop the

xoffnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-5715892310681272692007-02-09T12:29:00.000-06:002007-02-08T10:22:53.059-06:00

Jim Sensenbrenner, still trying to figure out his minority status, continues to throw his weight around. Thursday, he badgered Speaker Nancy Pelosi, using an obscure rule to question her when she testified before a House committee.The Hill has the story. The last line of this excerpt is a little ironic. The guy who wants to ask the questions doesn't want to answer any for the media without an

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He's used to getting his way, but now has to settle for getting some publicity.Have to wonder, though: Does Sensenbrenner secretly like cockfighting or dog fighting, or what's his deal?Former chairman shakes things up on animal fighting bill By FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Until January, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner ruled the House Judiciary Committee with an iron

xoffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-1165591089925473952006-12-08T09:12:00.000-06:002007-02-16T02:05:12.970-06:00

Outgoing House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner will relinquish the gavel when the Republicans become the minority party in January. He was reportedly seeking a position as the Ranking Member on the committee in the new Congress. Unfortunately for Jim, that position will go to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX).To add insult to injury, Sensenbrenner didn't get a Ranking Member spot on any

Scottnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-1162090734578743542006-10-28T21:54:00.000-05:002006-10-28T21:58:54.593-05:00

Sunday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial: It's time to send the congressman home Two years ago, we recommended Jim Sensenbrenner for another term representing Wisconsin's 5th Congressional District. Today, we simply cannot. Sensenbrenner has been wrong on too much, from an immigration policy that puts him at odds with much of his own party and the business community to failure to exert

xoffnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-1161655543685475372006-10-23T21:05:00.000-05:002006-10-23T21:06:11.506-05:00

Rep. F. Jim Sensenbrenner is making an investment to try to remain a part of the majority in the House. He's like to chair a committee again, no doubt.The tight-fisted Sensenbrenner has given the National Republican Congressional Committee $100,000. Of course, it's from his campaign account, not his wallet. Still, it's a sign he wants to try to buy a spot in leadership if the Rs happen to

xoffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-1161321203583285222006-10-20T00:10:00.000-05:002006-10-20T00:15:45.710-05:00

Who's the tall nerdy guy in the suit? Hint: What's the name of this blog?

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F. Jim Sensenbrenner has made it big -- #2 on Rolling Stone's list of 10 Worst Congressmen.He's topped only by Speaker Dennis Hastert.

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Jay Bullock -- on this blog he's known as The Founder -- says on his folkbum blog that Sensenbrenner, who starts out with huge advantages of wealth and incumbency in his reelection campaign against Bryan Kennedy, has one more advantage. It's the Spice Boys, who are piling on at every opportunity.

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Sometimes family matters have to be attended to and as much as I wanted to attend the 5th Congressional District debate last night, my wife's birthday came first.Having missed this and being keenly interested in the proceedings, first thing this morning I tore open the Metro section of the Journal to find coverage of the event. NadaWell, maybe they saw fit to put it in the front section.Zilch.My

krshorewoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00417863312104824551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-1160601613444977842006-10-11T15:38:00.000-05:002006-10-11T16:20:13.793-05:00

Sensenbrenner and his colleagues ought to be ashamed for rushing to protect rogue gun dealers at the expense of public safety. -- An editorial on Sensenbrenner's shameless sellout to the gun nuts.

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I didn't say debate, because I can't tell for certain whether these are debates, forums, or just back-to-back speeches, but Big Jim Sensenbrenner and Bryan Kennedy will at least be in the same room twice in the next two days, probably for the only times during the entire campaign.Both events are open to the public.On Wednesday, Oct. 11, they'll take part in a forum at the Brookfield Public Safety

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His votes may say "stay home", but his investments call out "ya'll come on over."Talk about hedging your bets. Congressman Sensenbrenner may be sending bills to the floor of the House to block illegal immigration, but he pays his bills with investments that use illegals according to an analysis by Roberto Lovato of New American Media.A rummage of his portfolio reveals:(T)he congressman has

krshorewoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00417863312104824551noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-1159716204674880612006-10-01T10:21:00.000-05:002006-10-01T10:23:24.690-05:00

Gregory Stanford's op ed column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner coddles gun dealers who coddle criminals.The suburban-Milwaukee Republican played a pivotal role in last week's passage by the House of a bill that law enforcement officials across the land warn would keep federal agents from shutting down rogue dealers.Sensenbrenner, who has bashed Milwaukee Mayor Tom

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Sensenbrenner is single-handedly holding up a bill, in the final days of the Congressional session, to crack down on cockfighting and dogfighting -- a bill sponsored by 324 House members, including Mark Green, F. Jim's Wisconsin colleague and candidate for governor.His resistance brought a full page newspaper ad in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Thursday, sponsored by the Humane Society. It

xoffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-1159405023790174692006-09-27T19:54:00.000-05:002006-10-01T10:26:07.183-05:00

NY Public Broadcasting: Deal to Delay Passport Requirement Fails BUFFALO (2006-09-27) A deal reached in Congress Tuesday to delay the passport requirement along the northern border has fallen apart.Congresswoman Louise Slaughter says lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agreed early Tuesday to delay the passport requirement along the U.S.-Canada border until June 2009.But just before the vote,

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By Keith SchmitzToday’s editorial in the New York Times charges that many in Congress are being truly soft on crime with the consideration of a bill which would make it harder to control the flow of guns used in crimes.House sycophants of the National Rifle Association are aiming this week to hobble the federal government’s power to revoke the licenses of rogue gun dealers who arm the underworld

krshorewoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00417863312104824551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-1159229894065872732006-09-25T19:15:00.000-05:002006-09-25T19:18:14.076-05:00

Sensenbrenner a no-show at La Casa debateSpokesman: Forum sponsors consistently oppose congressman WAUKESHA - Incumbent U.S. Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner was in Waukesha County on Saturday, but he wasn’t at a candidates’ forum for those running for his seat because the longtime congressman viewed the proposed debate as not "true and fair," his press secretary said.Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., who

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Sensenbrenner maneuvers the Bush torture bill through his committee. Pundit Nation has details.

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Ruben Navarrette Jr., of the San Diego Union-Tribune says Sensenbrenner & Co. are pushing 'just for show' bills on immigration: -- I DON'T FULLY understand how Congress works. But after the latest round of gimmicks by House Republicans over immigration reform, I have a pretty good idea of why it doesn't. My first hint that Congress was dysfunctional came a few months ago during an interview with

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-- Stuart Carlson, Milwaukee Journal SentinelAll around, a bad press day for F. Jim. Two bad editorials and now this: Civic leaders rebuke Sensenbrenner They criticize 'murder capital' commentThree civic leaders slapped back at U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner on Thursday, calling his statement that Milwaukee "is rapidly becoming the murder capital of the U.S." untrue and harmful."To digress into

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial page lets Congressman F. Jim Sensenbrenner have it with both barrels in its Friday edits for his support of and defense of a bill to keep secret the sources of guns used in crimes, an NRA-written bill if there ever was one. A bad bill:Sensenbrenner should disassociate himself from this soft-on-crime measure, which only makes the gun lobby and the outlaw

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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is the quintessential nice guy who almost never gets his Irish dander up. But Jim Sensenbrenner managed to set him off by whoring off again to the NRA, as the Journal Sentinel reports: Taking it personally Sensenbrenner, Barrett quarrel over gun billBy DANIEL W. REILLYWashington - The mayor of Milwaukee and the congressman representing most of its suburbs engaged in

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You probably won't see that on a bumper sticker, but that's what the Shepherd Express, Milwaukee's alternative weekly, reports: White Supremacists Rally Behind SensenbrennerImmigration message loved by hate groupsThe Anti-Defamation League has warned that white supremacists have been rallying behind the right-wing anti-immigration movement. It’s no surprise, then, that these hate groups have

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Add the conservative Union Leader of Manchester, N.H. to the list of critics of Rep. F. Jim Sensenbrenner's immigration hearings. An editorial:Can you hear us now? Congressmen needed to listenTHE U.S. HOUSE Judiciary Committee held what it called an "immigration field hearing" in Concord last Thursday. But about the only hearing being done was by the audience.Judiciary Committee Chairman James

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As the Sensenbrenner Judiciary Committee circus heads for its last "hearing" on immigration reform on Sept. 1 in Dubuque (Iowa is thinking of walling off the border), it appears the road show has fizzled.It has probably accomplished its purpose of stalling Congressional action and getting some media coverage on the issue in places with contested elections. But public interest in the hearings --

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He's a travelin' man, and F. Jim Sensenbrenner's road show on immigration keeps drawing flak wherever it goes.People in New Hampshire -- where illegal immigrants would seem more likely to be Canadians than Mexicans -- say they want to discuss immigration policy, not politics. AP reports.

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An editorial from the News Times of Danbury CT: Congress talks about reform, but fails to act Immigration reform has been put on the back burner in Washington; congressional leaders think the issue is too controversial to handle in an election year.But that doesn't mean the politics of immigration has been put on the back burner. Indeed, Republican leaders in the House, who hold the majority and

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Naive. Disingenuous. Hypocritical. Evasive. Thin-skinned.All of those words are used to describe Rep. F. Jim Sensenbrenner in the course of a single column in the San Diego Union-Tribune.Enjoy.

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There will be a hearing on immigration in Dubuque, Iowa soon, presumably because a lot of people in Dubuque are worried about illegal immigrants crossing the Mississippi from Wisconsin.Or could it be because there is a hotly-contested House race there?Critics are suggesting that Rep. F. Jim Sensenbrenner's committee has scheduled hearings across the country to give some embattled Repubs a lift in

xoffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-1154699973496532562006-08-04T08:51:00.000-05:002006-08-04T08:59:33.506-05:00

This from a Waukesha County Republican observer, about the Republican primary for the State Assembly seat formerly held by Scott Jensen, who resigned after being convicted of three felonies for misusing his office and abusing the public trust. In the interest of stirring the GOP primary pot, here you go:Q: How has Rich Zipperer, an individual with virtually zero ties to either Waukesha County

xoffnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11683539.post-1154646401662684122006-08-03T18:04:00.000-05:002006-08-03T18:15:41.450-05:00

It really isn't news any more, since F. Jim Sensenbrenner regularly comes out on top of the list of Congress members who travel for free.But here's the latest report:Sensenbrenner tops list of privately funded travelWASHINGTON - Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner has taken around $200,000 worth of privately funded travel over the past 6 1/2 years, more than any other lawmaker, according to a new

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"Don't bother me -- go bother your state legislator with these problems." That's the response Rep. F. Jim Sensenbrenner gave to a leader of a citizens group at a Sensenbrenner town hall meeting -- an answer those activists aren't likely to forget.Jeff Gonyo of Highway J Citizens Group reports in an email, from which this is excerpted:During the Town Hall Meeting, I asked Congressman Jim

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An attempt by a 5th Congressional District citizens group to enlist their Congressman against a project in his district fell on deaf ears. You can guess who the Congressman was. From the Daily Reporter:On Sunday night, the [Highway J Citizens Group] unsuccessfully tried to convince U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner to back its cause at the congressman’s Richfield Town Hall meeting.“I have approached

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Looks like Congressman Sensenbrenner might have a hot time at the old town meeting on Sunday night. A citizens group fighting expansion of Highway 164 in Waukesha and Washington Counties plans to take its case to Sensenbrenner.From the Highway J Citizens Group e-mail:WE NOW HAVE ANOTHER GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO "MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD" ON THESE IMPORTANT COMMUNITY ISSUES! On Sunday, July 30, 2006, we

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The Journal Sentinel gives him the benefit of the doubt, and makes it sound like F. Jim is just having fun. But it sounds like there's an edge to his humor, and that he may not have found it all that amusing to be described as a pit bill or to have a Judiciary Committee member say he treated members like dogs.In any event, here's the story:Sensenbrenner lets the dogs out House Judiciary 'pit

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