The Senate today began its first impeachment trial since Bill Clinton. This one is much less controversial; Federal Judge Samuel B. Kent of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Texas is most likely going to be convicted. Kent was accused of sexually assaulting two female employees at his court in Galveston and [...]
But, even posthumously, the former president continues to kick himself. From the new Nixon tapes, just released, per the New York Times, recorded on January 23, 1973: Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases [...]
I promise, I’m trying to swear off any more posts on the Mark Sanford saga. But it just won’t let me. Now the largest newspaper in his state tells us that, on a last-minute impulse, he decided to go to Argentina. The State adds: When asked why his staff said he was on the Appalachian [...]
As we have noted here before, two recent polls have shown three-quarters of the public support the idea of giving people the choice of a government-run health care plan similar to Medicare. But a new Washington Post survey throws some caveats on that proposition, and gets a very different result: Survey questions that equate the [...]
One of the great rallying cries we hear in the health care debate–including from President Obama–is that everyone should get coverage that is at least as good as what members of Congress get. How good is that? John Fritze at USA Today takes a look: Like millions of employees, lawmakers choose from a range of [...]
The headline would seem simple enough but it was harder than most people could have imagined reaching consensus amongst Dems in the House on a bill to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. But, six weeks after House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Rep. Ed Markey introduced the legislation, an agreement was finally reached [...]
My TIME.com piece on Obama’s press conference today begins like this: Even within the White House complex, the opposing teams each have their own turfs. In the halls of power — the Oval Office, the East Room and the Rose Garden — the President oversees his domain. But just a few steps away sits the [...]
Republicans and Democrats agree that tourism to the U.S. is a good thing. The average foreign visitor spends $4,500 on everything from hotels and trains to Abercrombie and Fitch and Disney World. Alas, international tourism rates to the U.S. have yet to recover to pre-911 levels and they actually declined 10% in the first quarter [...]
Regular readers of this space know that the Nixon tapes are regarded here in Swampland as the gift that keeps on giving. And while we haven’t yet had time to listen to any of the 154 hours that were released today, reporters who have are finding some gems. Such as this from NPR’s Nina Totenberg: [...]
As the committees continue their work in both houses of Congress, here’s something worth a bookmark. The Kaiser Family Foundation has come up with a really good (and up-to-date) interactive tool to give you side-by-side comparisons of the key provisions of the various proposals.
