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While PNCAA (the so-called "Internet Kill Switch" bill) seems to advocate a cross-sectoral approach to tackling cybersecurity threats, it doesn't use private sector best practices when establishing what is supposed to be a response to potential "cyber warfare."
John Kerry and Joe Lieberman introduced climate legislation that contained some useful elements, but was clearly a compromise. It contained huge nuclear subsidies, coal subsidies, offshore drilling and other poor policy elements.
The Senate Democratic leadership said this week that there aren't 60 votes to pass a climate and energy bill this year. Last time I checked the Constitution, they only need 51 to pass something.
It has become clear to me in the wake of the botched flotilla raid of last week that loving Israel means something starkly different to different generations of American Jews.
If Blanche Lincoln loses despite the endorsement of Bill Clinton and others, it will be another example of the democratic leadership being at least a step or two behind their party's electorate, even in a state like Arkansas.
Our headline today quite obviously references the legislative progress this week on banning the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (of not allo...
It's over a year into an Obama administration, and already that word "compromise" has been heard too much. Yet when the news hit Monday night that the...
This week, Congress will consider historic legislation that will end a barrier to service -- an impediment that inflicts grievous harm on our Nation's military readiness.
Look at the American political landscape today and you might begin to get the sinking feeling that the red state/blue state dichotomy is, on the one h...
We cannot allow horse-trading on climate to become a vehicle for gutting Clean Air Act regulation of soot, smog, and air toxics. The health and well-being of the American people is not a bargaining chip.
The Kerry-Lieberman climate bill was finally introduced last week as the "American Power Act." For the previous 10 months, it was the unicorn of climate bills.
These can seem like very discouraging times. As our planet continues its dangerous trajectory towards a steady boil, many of our politicians, like la...
Giving states veto power over offshore drilling within 75 miles of shore doesn't make it any less likely that oil rigs might collapse, so why does it seem to make the risk of offshore different?
If Blanche Lincoln and Arlen Specter survive the Democratic primary, it will only get worse. There is no guarantee Specter or Lincoln would beat their Republican challengers in November - in fact, odds are against it.
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), though down one man, finally released their stab at cl...
