The Hill: Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will unveil a sweeping climate change and energy bill Wednesday that requires greenhouse gas reductions while offering major new incentives for nuclear power, coal, natural gas and offshore drilling. The bill — which faced several delays en route to Wednesday’s unveiling — faces highly uncertain [...]
CBS News: While the White House seems to believe the American people deserve to hear from Kagan, it has not made her available to reporters. That prompted some consternation at today’s White House briefing. “It appears that Solicitor General Kagan did an interview yesterday right after the president’s announcement,” said a reporter. “You’ve now posted [...]
Times Online: David Cameron will begin today to forge the first peacetime coalition for more than 80 years after becoming Britain’s 53rd Prime Minister. The Conservative leader opened a new political era by cautioning that “hard and difficult work†lay ahead for the new Government that will include five Liberal Democrats in Cabinet and some [...]
Politico: Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), who lost his bid for re-nomination on Saturday, has not ruled out running as a write-in candidate for the Senate this fall. “I’ve made no decisions to make a decision,” he said Tuesday when asked about his political future. Bennett would only say he’d make a decision “later.” Such a [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) – Worries over increased violence fueled by Iraq’s political instability have forced U.S. commanders to reconsider the pace of a major pullout this summer without overstepping a deadline to cut the military’s presence by nearly half by the end of August. More than two months after parliamentary elections, the next government has still [...]
The Hill: Senate approves toned-down Fed audit The Senate on Tuesday, with overwhelming support, passed legislation requiring new audits of the Federal Reserve. The 96-0 vote came after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) modified an earlier version of the audit legislation that was strongly opposed by the White House and Federal Reserve. They argued the amendment [...]
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Politico: Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) is warning that the United States is well on its way to facing the same type of debt crisis that has crippled Greece. “We are on a path which will go to where Greece is, there’s no question about that, if we don’t adjust our present financial house,†Gregg said [...]
Sky News: Prime Minister Gordon Brown will resign tonight, according to Sky News political correspondent Joey Jones. Jones said: “He just wants to get this over with. It’s presumably quite likely now that we will see David Cameron walking up Downing Street in the not-distant future.” Mr Brown wants to move on to charity work [...]
Mojave National Preserve (AP) – – The 7-foot-tall metal cross that has stood in California’s Mojave Desert for 75 years and withstood a hard-fought battle in the Supreme Court was ripped down and stolen Sunday night, according to state officials. “This is an outrage, akin to desecrating people’s graves,” said Kelly Shackelford, president of the [...]
Politico: Senate Republicans are planning an assault on Elena Kagan’s nomination, promising a much tougher confirmation process than the relatively smooth path Sonia Sotomayor took to the Supreme Court last summer — but GOP senators across the board are downplaying the prospects of a filibuster. While they may not have the votes to derail Kagan, [...]
Pew Research: “Socialism†is a negative for most Americans, but certainly not all Americans. “Capitalism†is regarded positively by a majority of the public, though it is a thin majority. There are certain segments of the public – notably, young people and Democrats – where both “isms†are rated about equally. And while most Americans [...]
Greece is the word… The Hill: Congress faces a crush of votes on big-ticket items before the Memorial Day recess, setting up a debate on deficits less than six months before the November elections. Democratic leaders are looking in the next three weeks to send President Barack Obama a slew of measures that cost more [...]
