One thing I have been having trouble finding is how the federal poverty level is actually adjusted every year. Here is how Health and Human Services describes the process: To calculate the 2009 poverty guidelines, do you use a projection of what the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) will be for 2009? No. ASPE does not […]
Ezra Klein interviewed Sen. Tom Harkin and this really caught my eye: Tell me a bit about your reform bill. When you first introduced this, Joe Lieberman was your co-sponsor, right? Well, I introduced that first in 1995, when we were in the minority. I’m going to reintroduce that again in January. And people are […]
Dave Waldman has a great rundown of what lies ahead for the health care bill as both chambers of Congress attempt to merge two very different bills into one. Sadly the quickest path is once again meeting Republican obstructionism, this time by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) objecting to the appointment of conferees and forcing a […]
Still catching up on the news of the attempted airline terrorist attack from Christmas and this story really caught my eye: Some airlines were telling passengers on Saturday that new government security regulations prohibit them from leaving their seats beginning an hour before landing The regulations are a response to a suspected terrorism incident on […]
The news of the “attempted bombing” of a Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit yesterday has brought out the craziness of the right, and nothing is crazier than this statement from Pete Hoekstra: So if we are considering what happened yesterday a terrorist attack, then does that mean Richard Reid, the shoe-bomber, was also a […]
I really like Chris Dodd and want him to start pushing his bill through to fix the FPL, but news like this really makes me angry with him too: Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Wednesday ripped the Senate’s “newest members” for the lack of comity in the upper chamber. In a floor speech Wednesday night, […]
Will the lady who knocked down the Pope become the Vatican’s version of the Salahis?
I hope everyone has a great day filled with love and joy while celebrating with their family and friends. I even extend this to those on the right, with whom we spend the rest of the year butting heads. And a very special Merry Christmas to Eric Erickson of Red State, who has apparently really […]
The buckeye state isn’t growing that fast: Ohio could lose two seats in Congress as a result of waning population growth according to Census numbers. The figures, which were released on Wednesday, show that the Buckeye State’s population grew by only 14,573 people over the past decade, or one-tenth of one percent. Ohio Gov. Ted […]
I figured I would plug in some real world numbers as they would be today if the new health care legislation was fully intact. This is something I haven’t seen during the whole debate and I want to take it from the angle of a single person earning 150% of the FPL. Currently the FPL […]