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(Welcome to the new space, everyone! Coats in the spare room, and serve yourself.) There’s a reason that virtually everyone is full of it when they talk about “judicial activism”. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in an obscure case that the Affordable Care Act was constitutional as an exercise of…
WATCH LIVE: Congress votes on contempt for Attorney General Holder
Members of Congress are scheduled to vote on whether to put Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about the much-debated but little-understood “Fast and Furious” scandal, which allegedly allowed guns purchased by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to be sold over…
Fight brewing in Congress over budget, taxes
Fight brewing in Congress over budget, taxes (via The Christian Science Monitor) A budget showdown for the ages could begin after this year’s election and stretch well into 2013 — despite the threat that an impending half-trillion-dollar avalanche of tax increases and spending cuts might rekindle a national recession. The…
Rep. Ellison: Drone strikes make enemies for America
At the recent Netroots Nation conference in Rhode Island, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) said that Congress should be very concerned with the use of drones. The Obama administration publicly acknowledged in May that it was using aerial drones to strike suspected terrorists in Yemen and Pakistan. The New York Times…
Sen. Mark Udall calls for changes to FISA Amendments Act
Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) on Friday called on Congress to amend legislation that authorized dragnet-style warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency. The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 gave the government broad powers to monitor international phone calls and emails, and granted legal immunity to telecommunication companies that had participated…
Congress, rights groups still know virtually nothing about U.S. wiretap court
At a House hearing on Thursday, members of Congress and representatives of two leading privacy rights groups concluded that they still know virtually nothing about a secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), originally intended to prevent the worst abuses of the Nixon administration from ever…
Congress to spend more on tanks than military wants
The US Congress is poised to approve more funds for modernizing the US Army’s main battle tank despite objections from the military that it puts the Pentagon’s overall strategy in jeopardy. In its 2013 budget proposal, which begins in October, the Obama administration requested $74 million to upgrade the M1A2…
Obama calls for Congress to enact ‘green’ tax credits
NEWTON, Iowa — President Barack Obama urged Congress on Thursday to extend tax credits for clean energy companies the White House says are responsible for some 37,000 jobs. On his way back from a fundraising and campaigning tour in California, Obama stopped in the Midwestern state of Iowa, which he…
U.S. faces 2013 recession after ‘fiscal cliff’: CBO
WASHINGTON — The United States faces a likely recession next year if Congress fails to stop scheduled spending cuts and tax hikes in January, congressional budget analysts warned Tuesday. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said that if currently mandated fiscal conditions are implemented — what some observers call a “fiscal…
Using SAT-words doesn’t make you an effective communicator, Beltway-edition
A new Sunlight Foundation tool, Capitol Words — which uses the Congressional Record to monitor the words and phrases with which Congress uses in its public business — is getting attention after Jimmy Fallon’s monologue last night and an article in The Daily purports to show that Republicans have less…
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