Bill Clinton signed the largest deficit-cutting plan in history saving more than $1 trillion over a seven year period. Bill Clinton’s economic plan passed in August of 1993 was designed to return the country back to fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets. Not one Republican voted to support the balanced budget package in the Senate. The [...]
From a New York Times article by David Leonhardt. He describes some of the differences between the House and Senate health care bills and how they could possibly come together into the final version. I recently sat in on the daily meeting of a palliative care team at a hospital — doctors, nurses, a social [...]
Key Democrats are expecting an increase in their approval ratings after health care reform passes. They also expect a similar bounce in President Obama’s approval. Sen. Chuck Schumer suggested today that the polling numbers will turn in their favor once the public fully understands the policies in the health care bills. According to a new [...]
With little notice due to the health care debate, President Obama signed a bill into law that not only funded the government for the coming year, but also advances civil liberties in several areas. The bill “lifts 20-year ban on DC abortion funding, ends discriminatory school voucher program And defunds abstinence-only sex education programs.” The [...]
Stimulus spending has been slow, but does that mean that it’s not working? The Congressional Budget Office estimates on the amount of money that would be spent up to this point is very close to what the government is reporting to be spending on their website recovery.gov. So currently, the rate of spending is in [...]
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the National Security Archive (NSA) sued the government to restore millions of emails that had gone “missing” during the Bush administration. The Bush administration was aware of the flaw in their email backup system that was allowing millions of emails to slip through the system suspiciously [...]
With the news that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) plans to filibuster the current health care bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) options are looking increasingly limited. But one Democratic senator may introduce legislation that would make health care reform a lot easier. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa told reporters this weekend that he might reintroduce [...]
The Obama administration was able to bring China and India to the table for Climate talks in Copenhagen. A main Republican talking point has been that the U.S. should not commit to any climate change treaties or legislation if China and India were not involved, but since China and India are amount those attending the [...]
COPENHAGEN — Sen. Jim Inhofe flew across the Atlantic and — on little sleep — braved the snow, the cold and the dark to deliver his skeptical message at the international climate conference. What he found when he got here: a few aides and a single reporter. [Read More]
John McCain (R-Ariz.) is teaming up with Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act that was introduced during the Great Depression in order to keep banks from operating as a commercial bank and also an investment bank. The act was repealed in 1999 by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act under the Clinton Administration because of pressure [...]
