StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | yesterday
The late Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen famously called Texas politics a contact sport. Texas' senior Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has long considered running for governor. Today, she took a step in that direction.Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman files, "Hutchison...
BJP (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... Saxbe was named president Richard Nixon’s attorney general in 1974 and again when Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen became President Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary in 1993.But facing a similar situation, president “Ronald Reagan took a look at this clause and decided against appointing Orrin Hatch, who was a senator and still is, to the Supreme Court,” Fitton noted.“You can’t amend the...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... House in 2000.
Hutchison joined the Senate in 1993 in a special election to succeed Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, who became treasury secretary in the Clinton administration. The first and so far only woman elected to represent Texas in the Senate, she won her first full six-year term in 1994 and re-election in 2000 and 2006, with more than 60 percent of the vote each time.
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News Beast (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Sen. William Saxbe was named President Nixon's attorney general in 1974 and again when Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen became President Clinton's Treasury secretary in 1993."There are many ways around this problem," CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin noted. "One is for Congress to vote a lower salary. Another way is for Hillary Clinton simply to accept a lower salary. Another way is simply...
CNN (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Sen. William Saxbe was named President Nixon's attorney general in 1974 and again when Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen became President Clinton's Treasury secretary in 1993."There are many ways around this problem," CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin noted. "One is for Congress to vote a lower salary. Another way is for Hillary Clinton simply to accept a lower salary. Another way is simply...
CNN (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Sen. William Saxbe was named President Nixon's attorney general in 1974 and again when Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen became President Clinton's Treasury secretary in 1993."There are many ways around this problem," CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin noted. "One is for Congress to vote a lower salary. Another way is for Hillary Clinton simply to accept a lower salary. Another way is simply...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
The most recent case involved Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, who was nominated to be President-elect Bill Clinton's treasury secretary in 1993. To avoid conflict, Congress passed legislation lowering the salary of that position to its 1989 level.
Times of India (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... general. It happened most recently 16 years ago when incoming President Bill Clinton made senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas his treasury secretary. “It’s been dealt with each and every time,” said Jim Manley, spokesman for Reid. “We’re confident it can be dealt with this time.” Manley said it was unclear whether the measure could be passed next week. “We’re trying to work on this as...
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... general. It happened most recently 16 years ago when incoming President Bill Clinton made Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas his treasury secretary. “It’s been dealt with each and every time,” said Jim Manley, spokesman for Mr. Reid. “We’re confident it can be dealt with this time.” Mr. Manley said it was unclear whether the measure could be passed during a lame-duck session next week....
reverse_vampyr (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... of State. I wouldn’t bet on this actually preventing the appointment, however. It didn’t stop Lloyd Bentsen from becoming Secretary of [Treasury]. But it does make an interesting first test of how serious Barack Obama will be about taking the Constitution’s actual words seriously. We know he thinks the Constitution should be viewed as authorizing judicial redistribution of wealth....
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
SENATORS WHO MOVE TO THE CABINET.... Much has been made of the fact that sitting senators have very rarely won the presidency. Barack Obama is the first since JFK 48 years ago, and only the third in American history, following Kennedy and Warren Harding.But what about senators becoming cabinet secretaries? Ben Smith had an this afternoon.Along with getting emoluments out of the way, Lloyd Bentsen...
Flopping Aces (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... SecState spot it’s all good. Professor Volokh quoted Prof. Michael Stokes Paulsen , author of Is Lloyd Bentsen Unconstitutional', in his post on the subject: A “fix” can rescind the salary, but it cannot repeal historical events . The emoluments of the office had been increased. The rule specified in the text still controls. Unless one views the Constitution’s rules as rules that...
ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... Carter in nominating Senator Ed Muskie to be Secretary of State, and Clinton in nominating Senator Lloyd Bentsen to be Treasury Secretary, all decided not to let the U.S. Constitution stand in their way. As President-elect Obama joins the company of Presidents Taft, Nixon, Carter and Clinton, he will probably ask Congress to lower the salary of Secretary of State back to what it was...
CALIFORNIA YANKEE (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... Carter in nominating Senator Ed Muskie to be Secretary of State, and Clinton in nominating Senator Lloyd Bentsen to be Treasury Secretary, all decided not to let the U.S. Constitution stand in their way.As President-elect Obama joins the company of Presidents Taft, Nixon, Carter and Clinton, he will probably ask Congress to lower the salary of Secretary of State back to what it was...
The New World Lusophone Sousaphone (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... own term to describe corporate grassroots organizing. He calls it “democracy for hire.” Senator Lloyd Bentsen, himself a long-time Washington and Wall Street insider, is credited with coining the term “astroturf lobbying” to describe the synthetic grassroots movements that now can be manufactured for a fee by companies like Beckel Cowan, Bivings Group, Bonner & Associates, Burson-Marsteller,...
