Tag: US Congress
More On Polarization of Congress
Chris Cillizza a over at The Fix is usually quite good, but in today’s post he is just playing the devil’s advocate about Mann and Ornstein’s excellent piece from this past weekend and, quite frankly, it’s quite lame.
Subsidies: Big Oil and Others
If I give you $1 every year, would you give me $59 in return every year? Chances are, you wouldn’t. However, if I were an oil company and you were a member of Congress that’s exactly what happens, except you aren’t giving out your money.
#Fail
That seems to sum up (as of this writing, which is shortly before the Super Committee deadline) the rather expected results of the work of said Super Committee.
Today’s HCR Vote Program
So today is the day, and today is when we get to know whether Nancy Pelosi and President Obama have been able to pull this one out (Intrade futures on this effort have been going up since early this month — you can buy at this writing at 92.1). You can use this as a live blogging thread (if you are glued to CSPAN and not out in this glorious weather).
Democrats To Get All Vincent Van Gogh About Earmarks
Ethically speaking it hasn’t been a great year for Democrats in Washington, but with the ouster of Massa and other corrections of mis-steps, Congressional Democrats are continuing down the path of ethics reform. One item ripe for massive reform are earmarks. House Democrat leaders are actively working on ways to reform —even temporarily halt — […]
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