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With the news that Democratic congressmen Henry Waxman and George Miller plan to retire at the end of the year, Michael Barone looks back at the impact their congressional class…
If you’re holding out hope that members of Congress will realize soon that the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank financial regulation law are both fatally flawed, Barron’s “D.C. Current” columnist…
Michael Barone‘s latest column posted at National Review Online focuses on the fiasco surrounding taxpayer funding for the Solyndra solar project. The House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee conducted a…
Some years ago, it was said McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform wasn’t worth the effort to understand because the best of lawyers had differing interpretations thereof. Henry Waxman’s 2000+ page monstrosity,…
Byron York‘s latest Washington Examiner article explains that the incoming U.S. House Republican majority will be watching two federal agencies especially closely: Two key areas on which Republicans plan to…
I feel like expatriating today. I guess it all started when I heard my name appeared in Il Nuovo Cimento. That’s not anything big, but it is illustrative of my…
The Socialist Party of America has released a list of 70 members of Congress that it says are members of the party’s Congressional causus. They include Rep. Mel Watt, D-NC.…
The short session ended with one little success for people trying to start a PACE program in Asheville. PACE stands for, among other things, Property Assessed Clean Energy. The program,…
Yesterday, Rick blogged on Bart Stupak’s growing optimism about a health-care reform compromise, pro-life objections not withstanding. But The Weekly Standard here gives some context to Stupak’s statement: Michigan Democrat…
Like you didn’t already know. So I don’t have to put D’s and R’s by their names, the top eight are Democrats and the bottom five are Republicans. Here’s the…
Like you didn’t already know. So I don’t have to put D’s and R’s by their names, the top eight are Democrats and the bottom five are Republicans. Here’s the…
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