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Blog Entries for Thursday, April 29
2010 Kentucky Derby
Enough with health care, Wall Street reforms, immigration and all of that political stuff. The first Saturday in May is almost here, and that means Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby. I became a horse racing fan thanks to my father, spending Saturday afternoons at Laurel Race Course in Maryland, ...
A Different Response
Let's just imagine that this oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had happened five years ago. We would have had Democratic lawmakers screaming from the rafters in the Capitol. But in 2010, it's not happening, because they are boxed in by their own President's agenda. When Bill Clinton and ...
Immigration Reform Outline
As the first lawsuits were filed against a tough, new immigration law in Arizona, Democrats in the Senate unveiled an outline of immigration legislation that they plan to push in coming months to both tighten the border and provide a route to citizenship for millions of illegals here already. "I ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, April 28
Obama Meets The Press
On Wednesday, Neal Boortz and I discussed some of the bad feelings between the news media and the White House. Maybe President Obama heard some echoes of that. As he returned to Washington on Wednesday evening from a two-day trip to the Midwest, the President went back to where the ...
Filibuster Goes Quietly
After standing together for three cloture votes over three days, Republicans quietly gave up their filibuster of a Wall Street Reform bill on Wednesday evening, allowing debate to begin on the bill this morning. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell tried to put the best dressing on the decision as he ...
Oil Spill Politics
A few weeks ago, the idea of expanded domestic offshore oil and gas exploration seemed like a slam dunk in the Congress. Yes, there were opponents, but they were a minority. But a Gulf of Mexico oil spill has changed that. At a hearing yesterday in the House Energy & ...
Puerto Rico Vote
The U.S. House votes today on a bill that would let the citizens of Puerto Rico determine their future relationship with the United States, with one option possibly being that the island could become the 51st State. But it will take more than one vote. The bill is H.R. 2499, ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, April 27
Goldman Up One
It wasn't a fun day at the witness table for executives of Goldman Sachs, but when the lights finally went out just before 9pm EDT on Tuesday, there was definitely one metric running in favor of the Wall Street Investment Bank - it's stock price. Goldman stock ended the day ...
Message To FEMA
If the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had any doubts about where lawmakers in Congress stand on grant programs run through FEMA, he certainly knows he touched the political third rail by trying to mess with a pork pipeline to the folks back home. From the time the ...
The Confident Fourteen
The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to deny a regular cost-of-living pay raise to members of Congress in Fiscal Year 2011, which would mark the third straight year that lawmakers left their pay at $174,000 per year. The vote was 402-15 in the House, with all 15 votes against the ...
Blog Entries for Monday, April 26
Spotlight On Goldman Sachs
It may be a tough day before a Senate investigatory subcommittee today for officials at Goldman Sachs, who will be answering questions about their company's actions leading up to the 2008 Wall Street Collapse. "Investment banks such as Goldman Sachs were not simply market-makers, they were selfinterested promoters of risky ...
Searching For Details
Just like the health care reform bill, Cap and Trade and other major legislative items in recent months, there are a lot of claims on the internet about what the Wall Street Reform Bill might do, but finding the specifics is not so easy. For example, there has been a ...
Wall Street Latest
As expected, Senate Democrats failed last night to get 60 votes on a procedural vote to just start official consideration of a Wall Street Reform bill, as Republicans stuck together to oppose that often routine parliamentary motion. "The Republicans won't even let us debate," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), part ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, April 25
Immigration Reform Bubbles
Suddenly, the issue of illegal immigration is back on the national political radar, as Democrats say they are serious about ripping off a political scab from a few years ago and bringing comprehensive reform legislation to the Senate floor. The issue got a jolt last Friday, when President Obama took ...
Energy/Climate On Hold
Three Senators - one Democrat, one Republican and one Independent - were all set to unveil compromise energy/climate legislation today, but things fell apart over the weekend, because of immigration reform. Yep, you read that right.There had been months of negotiations involving Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) ...
Wall Street Test Vote
Democrats will try to take a big step forward today on Wall Street Reform legislation in the Senate, as they force a test vote on whether to even begin debate on the matter. 60 votes are needed, which means at least one Republican will have to switch sides. "The bottom ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, April 22
Health Reform Costs
Republicans seized on two new reports that came out Thursday, which raised questions about some of the claims of those who backed the brand new health care reform law that was given final approval last month. First, the Congressional Budget Office weighed in with a review of the penalties on ...
Wall Street Vote
Democrats are pushing ahead with Wall Street Reform legislation, setting a test vote to start debate on Monday evening, as both sides continue to point fingers over a sweeping package of financial market regulations. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid basically gave lead negotiators in both parties the weekend to cut ...
Daughter At Work
Instead of riding herd on lawmakers at the Capitol on Thursday, I spent most of my day having fun with my 6 year old daughter, who trailed along with me again this year on Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work day. Armed with a pen, reporter's notebook, an old ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, April 21
Wall Street Details
As the Senate edges closer to a debate on Wall Street Reform, it is probably time for us to start chewing on some of the details in the legislation, rather than just some of debating points from both parties. Like health care, this debate can be highly technical and make ...
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