A chart of unemployment since 1995

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  July 8th at 11:00 AM  | 

Source for the unemployment figures: a spreadsheet taken yesterday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website. Republican period: January 1995-December 2006. Democrat period: January 2007-June 2010. Click for a PDF:

The House votes on the Financial Markets Plan

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  September 29th at 12:56 PM  | 

I’m watching live on C-SPAN as the vote happens. I watched as the votes came in, expecting that the yeas and nays would come in lockstep with bare passage the result of careful whipping. But no, we finally got down to a single Republican NV, 209-228 the result against. But even as members shout for the House to come to order, the vote is held | Read More »