Senate inaction on guns was inexcusable in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. — by Marc Morial Acts of terror like the ones committed at the Boston Marathon are reprehensible and lack moral or logical explanation. They rock us to our
THE BOEHNER-QUESTER Sequester: The Finger on the TriggerRichard (RJ) Eskow, Op-Ed: Today is the day the package of budget cuts they call the “Sequester” takes effect. There will be endless postmortems and real-time analyses. But as its draconian effects, there’s one thing
— by Pat Garofalo on Feb 1, 2013 at 5:45 pm When the Dodd-Frank financial reform law first passed, Senate Republicans refused to confirm a director for the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They promised to block any nominee — regardless of
Yesterday, as we faced our ONLY chance until 2015 to fix the filibuster, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did NOT act boldly. Instead, he consigned the Senate, and the American people as a whole, to two more years of continued crippling gridlock.
— By Ian Millhiser on Jan 24, 2013 at 12:45 pm EST The Huffington Post reports that Senate Leaders Harry Reid (D-NV) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reached a deal today to support minor — and in some cases, temporary — changes to
On November 6th, Democrats achieved a stunning victory, but all of that will be for naught if the Senate filibuster is allowed to remain in place. Republican obstructionists will continue to use it to “rule by the minority” and obstruct everything for
On Wednesday, when the 112th Senate opens it’s first session, it has to adopt a set of rules governing how they will conduct business. They do that at the first of each Congressional session. This time, however, instead of adopting the previous
