The Senate achieved a major milestone early this morning in overcoming a GOP filibuster and moving health care reform legislation to final passage later this week. But the reform still faces a high hurdle: reconciling the Senate plan with the previously passed House [...]
The Senate failed this week to approve legislation that would allow consumers to import low-cost prescription drugs from other countries. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the plan would have saved the federal government $19 billion over the coming decade, and bill sponsor Sen. Byron Dorgan, [...]
This week, a House subcommittee approved legislation to create a playoff system in college football. While I agree with these himbos in Congress that the Bowl Championship Series stinks -- I'm a K-State grad. See the TWO K-State BCS rules -- hasn't Congress screwed up enough things in this country?
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Some administration officials are saying that the progress on health care reform legislation, and the increasing likelihood that it will become law, vindicates President Obama’s largely hands-off strategy to reform. Rather than come out with his own reform plan, as President Clinton did, [...]
On the same day that Democrats lost the New Jersey and Virginia governors’ mansions, the state-by-state push to limit taxes and spending lost momentum. Maine voters nixed a Taxpayer Bill of Rights measure 60 to 40 percent. Washington state voters defeated similar legislation 57 to 43 percent. [...]
