On this morning’s “Washington Journal,” Census Bureau Director Robert Groves discussed how his agency deals with race on the census form. So what do you think? Should “negro” be on the census form? UPDATE: Why God Invented TIME.com. Here’s Michael Scherer’s interview with Groves. And Nancy Gibbs’ thoughts on why it is important to be [...]
You’re hearing it over and over again: If this new health insurance system is so great, why aren’t members of Congress enrolling themselves, their staffs and their families in it? Jonathan Cohn points to the legislative language that shows they are : (D) MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN THE EXCHANGE (i) REQUIREMENT- Notwithstanding any other provision [...]
The House just voted 220-207 to pass the tweaked package of health reform fixes approved by the Senate earlier today and sent back to the lower chamber for one final vote. It may be hard to believe, but after all the vitriolic town halls, the missed deadlines, the desperate search for 60 in the Senate, [...]
If you happened to have turned on C-SPAN in the last half hour you may have noticed the Senate was full of senators but no vote going on. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid convened the upper chamber to try and get consensus on how to proceed after Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, objected to [...]
This, from Bruce Bartlett, another independent-minded conservative, is fascinating: Since, [Frum] is no longer affiliated with AEI, I feel free to say publicly something he told me in private a few months ago. He asked if I had noticed any comments by AEI “scholars” on the subject of health care reform. I said no and [...]
Following a statistical breakdown of the Tea Party, Quinnipiac University today released the results of a new presidential poll. Despite his 22-pen win on health care, Barack Obama only wangled a 45% approval rating from more than 1,500 American voters who were surveyed on Monday and Tuesday after the House cleared the bill. A Gallup [...]
On Sunday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs tweeted a blog post by David Frum, the former Bush Administration speechwriter, because Frum argued that health care reform would be the GOP’s “waterloo”–”their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.” On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal editorialized that Frum—”the media’s go-to basher of fellow Republicans”–was “peddling [...]
Doug Thornell, spokesman for Rep. Chris Van Hollen, responds to Rep. Eric Cantor’s statement earlier today, which criticized Van Hollen for politicizing threats made against members of Congress: “Yesterday, Congressman Van Hollen called upon Republican leaders to condemn the harsh rhetoric that is fanning the flames of extremism around the country. Today, Mr. Cantor had [...]
The Senate just passed the House reconciliation bill 56-43. It turns out Senate Democrats didn’t come close to needing Joe Biden to break a tie, with only Sens. Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson and Mark Pryor voting against the bill. Because a small section related to student loans had to be removed, the legislation goes back [...]
