Carl Levin: Filibuster Could Fall 'After Massive Conflict On The Floor'
Senate Republicans made a persuasive case for abolishing or reforming the filibuster on Tuesday night when they blocked a routine nomination to the Na...
Senate Republicans made a persuasive case for abolishing or reforming the filibuster on Tuesday night when they blocked a routine nomination to the Na...
Phineas Baxandall | Posted 02.09.2010 | Green
Given sufficient, sustained government investment, a high-speed rail network could compete with intercity commuter air travel while benefiting America's economy and environment.
New York Times | Posted 02.09.2010 | Politics
Mr. McCain now finds himself jammed, moving starkly -- and often awkwardly -- to the right, apparently in an effort to gain favor among the same voter...
Art Levine | Posted 02.09.2010 | Politics
Progressive groups, Democrats and unions also haven't coalesced behind a clear strategy to move now-stalled health care reform forward, or to convince cowed Senate Democrats to take on the a large-scale jobs creation program.
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.09.2010 | Politics
My main concern is not the money that will be spent overtly, but rather with what happens outside the public's eye -- the unseen influence which may be wielded.
Posted 02.08.2010 | Politics
Politico reports that Senate Democrats "will miss their self-imposed deadline for bringing a jobs bill to the floor Monday," and while DC's major snow...
Bloomberg | Alex Nussbaum and Meg Tirrell | Posted 02.08.2010 | Business
Insurers, drugmakers and hospitals will likely slash costs and merge companies to maneuver through a U.S. health-care landscape marked by rising medic...
Steven Clifford | Posted 02.09.2010 | Comedy
As their party now holds an insurmountable 41 to 59 majority in the Senate, Republican leaders yesterday presented their legislative agenda for 2010, ...
Posted 02.08.2010 | Politics
A growing number of Democrats, from senatorial veterans such as Vice President Biden to freshman Sen. Tom Udall (N.M.), are calling for a rules change...
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 02.08.2010 | Politics
I feel like the lone voice calling for the White House to wake up and go nuclear -- attach health care reform to the budget, which will only pass along party lines anyway, and get the job done.
Jonathan Richards | Posted 02.07.2010 | Politics
Senator Shelby and his colleagues on the negative side of the aisle think things are moving just a little too fast in the Senate. ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.06.2010 | Politics
Democrats need to realize that they still have the biggest majority in both houses of Congress that they are likely to see in their lifetimes.
Stu Kreisman | Posted 02.05.2010 | Politics
There was a time in basketball when a lesser team could try to even the odds of winning by eating up the clock or stalling. When playing a better team...
Huff TV | Posted 02.05.2010 | Politics
Arianna appeared on CNN's 'The Situation Room' Friday to weigh in on the first national Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Arianna believe...
Peter Hurley | Posted 02.05.2010 | Living
Had legislation been in place a year ago, things could have been different for Jake and for tens of thousands of other Americans. We need to strengthen the FDA and its ability to oversee our food supply.
Mike Lux | Posted 02.05.2010 | Politics
The way Barack Obama ended his State of the Union -"We don't quit. I don't quit". - has already become a rallying cry for Democrats. I have seen tha...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 02.05.2010 | Business
This "bank heist," the brainchild of a brash hedge fund trader who used to receive seven-figure year-end bonuses, but who will soon be unemployed, centers on snaring a sharp reduction on one of his three mortgages.
The Media Consortium | Posted 02.05.2010 | Green
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger Nuclear power, biofuels, clean coal: These are the Obama administration's answers to climate change. The 201...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.05.2010 | Home
In 2008 and 2009, 50 separate Federal programs offered $23 trillion in loans, grants, or asset guarantees to the financial sector. Huh! This item ...
Bob Burnett | Posted 02.05.2010 | Politics
A week after Democrats suffered a stunning defeat, Barack Obama bounced back with a memorable State-of-the-Union address. After a year in office, Ob...
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 02.05.2010 | Business
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders plan to pass a jobs bill next week featuring tax breaks for employers that hire unemployed workers, a rare bipartisa...
Paul Abrams | Posted 02.05.2010 | Politics
We should write into the jobs bill that the money for jobs, tax credits, and everything possible that can be geographically limited, will only be spent in districts whose Members of Congress support it.
AP | By ERICA WERNER | Posted 02.05.2010 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- Called a prostitute by conservative talk show hosts, a Louisiana Democrat on Thursday defended a deal she cut for her Hurricane Katrina-...
TPMDC | Evan McMorris | Posted 02.04.2010 | Politics
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary "blanket hold" on at least 70 nominations President Obama has sent to the Senate, CongressDaily (s...
AP | ANDREW MIGA | Posted 02.05.2010 | Home
WASHINGTON — Republican Scott Brown took over the seat of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy on Thursday, vowing to be an independent vo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.09.2010 | Politics