Earlier this month, Mike wrote an article that talked about the decision of Olympia Snowe to support the health care legislation and help it proceed from committee. Consequently, she was the only Republican to vote for the bill that came out of the Senate Finance Committee. In the comments on that article, I speculated...
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As the debate over health care reform returns to the forefront of the news, President Obama is preparing a speech to a joint session of Congress tomorrow night. That esteemed body has just returned from it’s summer recess and even with numerous meetings and teleconferences between negotiators, a compromise has not been reached. One...
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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that I support the 2nd Amendment. All you have to do is read some of my articles and it should be very clear that I do not want to see the rights that are guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment chipped away at, little by little...
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Over the past several weeks, as the $789 billion economic stimulus package was coming to fruition in Congress, a lot has been said about how every Republican in the House of Representatives voted no and only three Republican Senators voted yes. Several times while listening to NPR’s Morning Edition on the way to work,...
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Wasting no time, negotiators from Congress and the White House have reportedly reached an agreement on the final version of the economic stimulus package President Obama has requested to be on his desk for his signature within a few days. The final cost of the bill is set at $790 billion and in spite...
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It’s beginning to look more and more like President-elect Barack Obama will ask for and probably receive a very large economic stimulus package from Congress, shortly after he takes office on January 20, 2009. A lot of numbers are being tossed around in Washington, with Obama’s economic team asking for advice from a lot...
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FOX News is reporting that President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, began contacting aides to Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich, about the much discussed Senate seat just days after the election on November 4. Barack Obama had begun thinking about his Senate successor even before the presidential election, and dispatched Rahm Emanuel days...
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After the breakdown of Congressional talks Thursday night, in an attempt to work out a compromise for the Detroit automakers, it looked as if the three companies might actually have to declare bankruptcy. All of this because the UAW is unwilling to make labor and benefit concessions some Senators wanted, before they agreed to...
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The Associated Press has just announced that the $14 billion bailout plan for Detroit has failed in the Senate. It appears the main culprit of the failure is the United Auto Workers (UAW) and their refusal to allow wage cuts to go into effect until 2011. A $14 billion emergency bailout for U.S. automakers...
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Just when it looks like the bailout for the Detroit automakers may have stalled, the United States Senate is negotiating into the night, trying to hammer out an agreement that would give the automakers $14 billion in emergency funding. From The Associated Press: Labor, lawmakers and the auto industry bargained in unprecedented private talks...
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