Not very according to the CBO: The Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday that an alternative health care bill put forward by House Republicans would have little impact in extending health benefits to the roughly 30 million uninsured Americans, but would reduce average insurance premium costs for people who have coverage. The Republican bill, which […]
What does this say? House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) are voting against the House/Senate fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill — because it contains hate crimes provisions designed to protect gays and lesbians. Boehner and Pence are putting their own bigotry against the needs of our […]
And Bush loves it: Lawmakers say they will push ahead with a presidential commission designed to root out waste and fraud in military contracts despite President Bush’s concerns that it could usurp his authority. Bush signed into law on Monday a wide-ranging defense bill that includes instructions to create a commission to investigate defense contracts […]
Whenever someone brings up the intelligence failures that lead to 9/11, they always point the finger at “intelligence sharing”. The administration has done the exact same thing. Now Bush has had the tools to correct those problems, yet he has failed to implement them: A House subcommittee has concluded that the Bush administration has been […]
Something that really hasn’t been talked about today is an interesting report in the New York Times about the tax cuts that are making grounds through Congress. The entire article is well worth a read but here is the most interesting part I found in it: The top tenth of 1 percent, whose average income […]
Well imagine this, Bush says he is not “obligated” to follow the oversight provisions in the new Patriot Act: When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was […]
Senator Feinstein has just asked Gonzalez to pinpoint what in FISA gives them this authority. She said there are two provisions, one is the 15 days after a declaration of war and the other is the 72 hour window, which was changed since 9/11 to allow that extra time. He reference section 109 which does […]