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Rand #39;s gamble
John King, Maggie Haberman and Peter Hamby weigh in on the danger of Rand Paul campaigning for a Senate primary in N.C.. John King, Maggie Haberman and Peter Hamby weigh in on the danger of...
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Timothy Elkin at Rand Paul Rally for Greg Brannon
Timothy Elkin speaks at the Rand Paul Rally for Greg Brannon on May 5, 2014.
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Former Vice President Al Gore discusses the politics of Climate Change
Former Vice President Al Gore responds to skepticism about climate change voiced by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul.
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-K.Y. Win McNamee, Getty Images
WASHINGTONSen. Rand Paul made his latest threat Monday to delay nominations, this time President Barack Obama's picks for vacancies on the Federal Reserve Board.
Paul, R-Ky., said he would slow work on all three Fed nominees unless Democrats allow a vote on his bill giving Congress more oversight over the central bank's actions.
Paul, considered a 2016 GOP presidential contender, said his bill would bring "much needed transparency" to the Fed. It would eliminate curbs on Fed audits by the Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative agency, and allow greater oversight by lawmakers on Fed actions including the money it has been pumping into the economy to reinforce the slow-moving recovery.
Critics have said the measure would increase the risk that lawmakers would put political pressure on Fed decisions.
Obama has nominated Stanley Fischer to become Fed vice chairman, and Lael Brainard and Jerome Powell to become Fed members.
The three are expected to eventually win Senate confirmation, whatever Paul does. Under changes Democrats pushed through last November to the chamber's procedures for ending filibusters, or procedural delays, only a simple majority is needed for most nominations, not the previous, harder-to-reach threshold of 60 votes.
Democrats said Paul's threat would have no real impact.
"This is completely predictable but effectively meaningless since Republicans are already obstructing virtually all nominees," said Adam Jentleson, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Paul is no stranger to the practice of threatening to hold up nominations. It has become an oft-used tactic in his quest to seek information or votes on other measures.
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Adding Insult to Injury
Rand Paul, the ACLU and the Medias Fascination with an Unorthodox Republican
Heres a head-spinning moment.
Rand Paul wrote the following in yesterdays New York Times: I agree with the ACLU.
And thats just the latest evidence that he is planning a different kind of Republican presidential campaign.
The Kentucky senator is quite consciously reaching out beyond the usual, staunchly conservative GOP base. That may reflect his analysis of what a Republican needs to do to win the White House in 2016. It may reflect the latitude he has as the son of perennial candidate Ron Paul. Or it may just be who he is.
My sense is that Paul is winning grudging respect in the media for going outside the usual Republican comfort zoneor at least gratitude for livening things up.
He is zigging while others are zagging, as we see in an interview the senator gave the Times the other day:
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky broke Friday with fellow Republicans who have pushed for stricter voting laws as a way to crack down on fraud at the polls, saying that the focus on such measures alienates and insults African-Americans and hurts the party.
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KURTZ: Rand Paul, the ACLU, and the media's fascination with an unorthodox Republican