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...
View ArticleObama 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...
View ArticleObama 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...
View ArticleLegislative 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...
View ArticleLegislative 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...
View ArticleHouse (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...
View ArticleTexas 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...
View ArticleLegislative 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...
View ArticleLegislative 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...
View ArticleHouse 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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