Today the House passed a bill to provide $7.4 billion to monitor, treat and compensate those who worked at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks. It’s still unclear if the bill will pass the Senate intact, but it was still a victory for proponents nonetheless.
The bill is noteworthy for the effect it could have on the medics, firemen and …
Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell reacts to supporters during her primary night party, on September 14, 2010 in Dover, Delaware. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
—Karl Rove and the whole GOP establishment cede Delaware.
–O’Donnell doesn’t sound too interested in detente.
–Castle won’t endorse her.
–Halperin says …
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–As Jay notes, Obama political arm Organizing for America is trying to take some credit for Bennet’s solid victory last night in Colorado. The message: Just because we couldn’t save Specter or clear the field for Lincoln and Bennet, the White House political operation is not ineffectual.
–Establishment …
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Sure, Joe Donnelly’s district went twice for George W. Bush and is rated R+2 by Cook Political Report. But in 2008 Obama won Donnelly’s South Bend district with 54% of the vote and Donnelly himself won a sophomore term with 67%. All freshmen and sophomores are nervous and many are …
One of the more strenuous tasks I perform each week is to lend my vote to the Matthews Meter for Chris Matthews’ Sunday show. This past week we were asked whether the Republicans would stick to the economic message in the fall campaign. The vote was 11-1 that they would. I was the one. Let me explain:
Our colleague Elizabeth Dias files this report:
If you’ve followed the illegal immigration controversy in Arizona, you’ll be familiar with the state’s hard-edged Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is famous for dressing inmates in pink underwear and for boasting an all-female chain gang. Loved by conservatives, hated by immigrant-rights groups,
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President Obama jokes with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka about eating birthday cake while he speaks at the labor union’s Executive Council meeting in Washington, August 4, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing
–Michael Lindenberger explains the ruling that struck down California gay-marriage ban yesterday.
–Dahlia Lithwick writes …
Even after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is fully implemented in 2019, about 23 million Americans will remain uninsured. About one-third of these will be undocumented immigrants, according to estimates by the Congressional Budget Office.
This is by design. Illegal immigrants will not be permitted to buy insurance …
As Alex wrote yesterday, TIME has a new poll out. Having focused earlier this week on the immigration debate, I found the questions on the Arizona law particularly interesting. Some 60% of respondents said they liked the Arizona law versus 35% who didn’t like it. That said, 54% said they believe the law would lead to harassment of …
This time.com story I have out today grew from conversation after conversation on the Hill with Democratic aides who were flabbergasted at the Obama Administration’s focus on immigration reform. “Like a dog with a bone — a bad bone,” one aide said to me. “It’s just crazy – it makes no sense,” said another. Most of them fretted about …
As the Obama Administration continues to push Congress on comprehensive immigration reform, the Department of Justice is expected to file a lawsuit today against Arizona’s controversial new immigration law. The border state’s new law, scheduled to go into effect later this month, allows local law enforcement to question a person’s …
From my Time.com story on President Obama’s immigration speech Thursday, some key polling numbers that are shaping the White House behavior:
Obama was elected into office on the promise that he would tackle immigration in 2009. He decided, however, to give priority to health care reform, financial regulatory reform and energy
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Well, it’s actually her week. President Obama’s nominee to the nation’s highest bench, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, takes the hot seat today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Though, today will be relatively mild given that the whole day will actually be spent on senators’ opening statements. Her first words are expected to be …
