Since arriving in Tucson, I have been incredibly impressed with the grace and compassion of the people I’ve met, even as they grieve and grapple with an awful tragedy. Here is a piece I wrote yesterday on the scene at some of the vigils taking place across the city. And, if you missed it yesterday, a story on the state of Gabrielle …
TIME contributor Adam Klawonn and I have a story from Tucson with information on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ condition, the state of the criminal investigation and the new charges against suspect Jared Lee Loughner. You can read it here.
TUCSON–Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remains in critical condition Sunday morning after being shot in the head Saturday during a massacre that claimed the lives of six and wounded at least 12 more.
TIME contributor Adam Klawonn has a dispatch from the scene yesterday. Law enforcement and medical authorities are holding press conferences …
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat first elected in 2006, has been shot in the head during a public event at a Tucson grocery store, according to several news reports. According to NPR, at least nine others, including members of her staff, were injured as well. Giffords’ condition is not yet known. From NPR’s report:
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After much hullabaloo, the 112th Congress kicked off its second day as promised: by reading the Constitution aloud on the House floor for the first time ever, per a chamber historian. Except not all of it. The bipartisan recitation omitted several critical passages, including the three-fifths compromise.
Both the ceremonial reading …
After the ceremonies and standing ovations died down, the new Republican House majority did get around to some crucial business today. By a straight party-line vote, the House approved a new rules package for the 112th Congress, 240-191.
Republicans say passing the new package–a right granted by the Constitution–will foster openness …
Countless Republicans made the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act the centerpiece of their campaigns this fall, and now the incoming GOP majority is planning to deliver on that promise. The No. 2 House Republican, Eric Cantor of Virginia, announced Monday that the repeal vote would be held Jan. 12, just a week into …
—In a mag piece this week, Scherer examines the chilly and consequential relationship between the President and one of his principal antagonists, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The Republican’s contention that the top GOP priority should be ousting Obama in 2012 spurred much head-scratching among the punditry over why he’d …
“We’ve become a nation of wusses. The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything. If this was in China do you think the Chinese would have called off the game? People would have been marching down to the stadium, they would have walked and they would have been doing calculus on the way down.”
—Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, after …
I have a Time.com piece up today on Ken Cuccinelli, whose suit against the health-care law was merely one of his many crusades against the federal government this year. As I write:
Just as Sarah Palin harnessed Facebook as a medium to inveigh against Beltway elites, Cuccinelli has leveraged his niche at the nexus of politics and the law
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A last-gasp effort to pass an immigration bill that has long languished in Congress failed Saturday morning, with Democrats failing to muster the 60 votes required to bring the DREAM Act to the floor for a final vote.
The push to resuscitate the bill, which would have created a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants who met …
–An Obama campaign blogger argues that the growing chasm between President Obama and his liberal base is not a function of alienating the “professional left,” but rather that Obama hasn’t engaged the network of grassroots supporters he nurtured throughout his campaign. Organizing for America, writes Sam Graham-Felsen, was “silent” …
