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Not That Bad

Matt Yglesias, on the strange American phenomenon of trailing other advanced nations in all sorts of infrastructure, technology and quality of life indicators, yet lead the world mostly in...

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Obama to cut deficit in half by end of term

After he banned gimmicks used by the Bush administration to make the federal deficit look smaller than it actually was, President Obama plans to outline steps in his budget proposal this coming week to...

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Obama To Propose Tax Increases

We discussed only yesterday David Leonhardt’s article for the NY Times, in which it becomes clear that taxes will have to rise if government is to continue providing social services that Americans have...

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Legislative Update XXVI

Instead of passing health care, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to block money for the Obama administration to transfer Gitmo detainees to the U.S. The chamber also voted to spend more money on...

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Legislative Update XXVII

Congress has passed a good law allowing college students to take up to a year off of school for medical reasons and still remain on their family’s health insurance plan. The House passed a defense...

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House (finally) passes health care reform bill

After a long day of fighting over an abortion amendment and a Republican alternative, the House just passed their version of health care reform by a vote of 220-215. 219 Democrats and 1 Republican...

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Texas Tort Reform: Failure

In 2003 the Texas legislature passed tort reform that, among other things, limited non-economic damages for plaintiffs in medical malpractice suits. The effect of this was to make it highly impractical...

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Legislative Update XXXIII

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to remove health insurers anti-trust exemption, extended the PATRIOT Act for another year, and approved an intelligence authorization bill but without...

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Legislative Update XXXIV

The House of Representatives approved an aid bill to Chili and impeached a Lousiana judge. They also approved a bill to establish a federal research strategy for addressing harmful algal blooms. In...

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House passes health care reform

After a long debate (and I’m not just talking about today’s crazy floor proceedings given how long this has gone on!), the House of Representatives has passed both the Senate’s health care reform bill,...

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