In the budget battle that threatens to shut down government, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has embraced the filibuster as a tool to preserve government funding for Planned Parenthood. This is the same Senator Schumer who, as recently as January, had denounced the filibuster as a tool to “grind the Senate to a halt.”
A shorter post today, because nothing much happening on the Hill. The President’s Debt Commission failed to garner the 14 votes out of 18 necessary this morning on the official commission report that would increase taxes by one trillion over the next 10 years. The House passed last evening a bill that would increase taxes on families making more than $250,000 a year. The Senate passed late last | Read More »
As the Senate votes on setting up a permanent authority for the federal government to bailout Wall Street, the House is readying action to provide statehood to Puerto Rico. Global Warming and immigration will be on the long term agenda for Congress and we may see some renewed efforts on the part of the Obama Administration to vet Supreme Court nominees in anticipation of a big fight this Summer | Read More »
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