Tag: Senate
Ear to the Ground: Gay Marriage Closer to Reality in New Jersey
Ear to the Ground: SOPA and PIPA Put on Hold
Reports: The Day the Internet Roared
Reports: Two Jerks
Ear to the Ground: Obama Gets His Way With Consumer Bureau Pick
Reports: Obama Benefits From Republican Civil War
A/V Booth: Obama Gives Boehner, Reid an Earful on Deadlock
Ear to the Ground: House Nixes Tax-Break Bill
Reports: Three Supreme Court Cases That Should Worry You
Reports: Bernie Sanders Explains Why Congress Fears Citizens United
Reports: Banana Republicans’ Assault on Democracy
Reports: There Goes the Republic
Ear to the Ground: Senate Rejects Another Top Candidate for Consumer Panel
Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes to Keep Detention Clauses in Military Bill
A/V Booth: Defense Bill Proposes Indefinite Detention for American Citizens
Ear to the Ground: Survey: Number of Religious Lobbying Groups in D.C. Is Up Fivefold
Reports: The Republicans Aren’t Funny, They’re Scary
Ear to the Ground: Gov’t Shutdown Crisis Averted (Again)
Ear to the Ground: Study: Nearly Half of Congress Members Are Millionaires
Reports: The Rise of the Reverse Houdinis
Ear to the Ground: Schumer Sees Democrats Hanging On to Senate
Ear to the Ground: Elizabeth Warren Bags $3 Million
Reports: Refuting Straw Liberals
Ear to the Ground: Wall Street Occupiers Make Gains
Ear to the Ground: Senate Democrats Propose the Rich Pay for Jobs Bill
Ear to the Ground: Disaster Bill Rejection Boosts Likelihood of Government Shutdown
Ear to the Ground: Adm. Mullen Says Pakistan Intelligence Supports Bombers
Ear to the Ground: From Top to Bottom, Supercommittee Is in the War Lobby’s Pocket
Ear to the Ground: House Rejects Government Funding Bill
Reports: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace
Reports: Unhappy Democrats Threaten Obama Jobs Bill
Reports: Preserving Life (Unless It’s Uninsured)
Ear to the Ground: Elizabeth Warren Is Running for the Senate
Reports: Franken Calls for Oversight of Ratings Agencies
Reports: Wisconsin: Conservatives Win, Liberals Gain
Reports: Another Bailout Joins the Goofball Economy
Ear to the Ground: Wisconsin Republicans Win Recall Battle, 4-2
Ear to the Ground: Temporary Deal Has FAA Back Up and Running
Reports: Who Wants to Go Back to the ’50s?
Reports: The World Has Been Watching
Ear to the Ground: Senate OKs Debt Deal, Obama Makes It Official (Updated)
Ear to the Ground: House Democrats Rescue GOP to Pass Debt Compromise
Ear to the Ground: Debt Deal to Cut at Least $1 Trillion (Video)
Cartoons: Debt Crisis
Cartoons: Divided Government
Cartoons: Herding Congress
Ear to the Ground: House Passes Boehner’s Bill, Senate Bats It Down
Reports: Why China Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank
Reports: Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security
Reports: The Limits of Compromise
Ear to the Ground: Senate Democrats Angry Over Obama ‘Sellout’
Reports: Blowing Up the House
Reports: ‘Dysfunctional’ Too Polite to Describe Tea Party Congress
Ear to the Ground: Elizabeth Warren Out, Another Bank Critic to Lead Consumer Agency
Reports: Why Did Congress Waste Six Months?
Cartoons: Default Answer
Reports: Obama Can’t Celebrate Yet
Cartoons: Circle Jerk
Reports: Obama’s Raw Deal?
Cartoons: Eat the Poor
Cartoons: Elephant Trunks
Reports: Washington Dysfunction: A Scorecard
Reports: Calling the GOP’s Bluff
Cartoons: Crossroads
Ear to the Ground: Disappointment in Rhode Island
Reports: John Dean Knows How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas
Ear to the Ground: Blagojevich Guilty 17 Times Over
Ear to the Ground: Hacktivist Outfit LulzSec Says Bon Voyage
Cartoons: Scared of a Little Compromise
Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill
Reports: Obama Is Wrong on War Powers
Reports: Washington’s Deeper Immorality
Ear to the Ground: Gay Marriage Vote Down to the Wire in N.Y. State
A/V Booth: Bernie Sanders Goes After the Oil Industry
Ear to the Ground: Hack Attack: Senate, CIA Sites Take a Hit
Reports: Gridlocking the Lives of the Jobless
Reports: The Party of Righteous Indignation
Ear to the Ground: Where Are They Now: Corporate Democrat Edition
Ear to the Ground: General Passed Over for Giving Obama Advice
Ear to the Ground: Four More Years of Wiretapping Fun
Ear to the Ground: Wisconsin Is Ready for a Feingold Comeback
A/V Booth: Senators Give Post-bin Laden Prognoses
Ear to the Ground: Congress Dances to the Edge, Averts Shutdown
Reports: Why the Reckless Republicans Win
Ear to the Ground: With Libya, Sec. Gates Puts His Foot Down
Reports: The High Cost of a Broken Metaphor
Reports: What Wisconsin Can Teach Washington
Ear to the Ground: GOP Senators Find a Workaround, Win Wis. Bill Battle
Reports: Don’t Ice Out Public Media
Ear to the Ground: First Wisconsin, Now Ohio
Reports: The FCC, Net Neutrality and the Future Enrons of the Internet
Reports: Obama and the Failure of the Deficit Hawks
Reports: The Leadership Vacuum
Reports: Can Obama Be Luke Skywalker?
Reports: Lessons From Our Egypt Moment
Ear to the Ground: Health Care Repeal Shot Down in Senate
Reports: Without Obama, We Lose So Much More Than an Election
Reports: It’s Repeal That’s Ailing
Ear to the Ground: Al Franken Blasts the FCC
Reports: Fudging the Facts on Health Care and Deficits
Ear to the Ground: House Huffs, Puffs, Blows Health Care Down
Reports: Health Care and the New Civility
Reports: Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich
Reports: Washington Loves a Paradox
Reports: Filibuster This Plan
Ear to the Ground: GOP Gears Up to Take Down Health Care Reform
Reports: Wrong Again, Sen. Graham
Reports: Health Care Melodrama
Reports: Celebrating the New GOP Majority
Reports: A Snow-Filled Glimpse of America’s Future
Reports: A Recess Appointment That Makes Sense
Ear to the Ground: Gorbachev Takes Stock of New START
Ear to the Ground: O’Donnell Accused of Dipping Into the Campaign Till
Reports: A Reality Check for the GOP
Reports: For Biden, Mission Accomplished
Ear to the Ground: GOP Gets Ready to Rumble in 2011
Reports: Sept. 11 Heroes Disdained on the Right
Reports: The Pride of ‘Obama’s Orphans’
Ear to the Ground: Senate Lets Sharks Keep Their Fins for Christmas
Reports: Undocumented Students Give Congress an F
Reports: ‘Don’t Ask’: Not Quite Fa La La Just Yet
Arts and Culture: White House Looks to Jon Stewart in 9/11 Health Bill Bid
Reports: Obama Scores a Victory, Along With Some Vindication
Ear to the Ground: Congress Heads for Holiday Overtime
Ear to the Ground: Russia Fires Off START Warning
Ear to the Ground: Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Draws Near
Ear to the Ground: Dream Act Is Dead for This Year
Ear to the Ground: Congress Passes Obama-Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
Cartoons: How the Senate Should Vote
Reports: Everything Is Negotiable, Except Nature
Reports: So Far Health Care Rulings Are Disturbingly Predictable
Reports: Labels Aren’t the Problem
Ear to the Ground: House Passes DADT Repeal
Ear to the Ground: Senate Vote Boosts Obama’s Tax-Cut Bid
A/V Booth: Senate Shoots Down DADT Repeal
Reports: Obama Speaks Ill of His Allies
Ear to the Ground: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal Headed for a Vote
Reports: Can Democrats ‘Up Their Game’?
Ear to the Ground: Those Dreadful Geico Commercials Are About to Get Quieter
Reports: The Grinch Who Stole Washington
Reports: Where Is Obama Going?
Ear to the Ground: Senate GOP Plans Bill-Blocking Spree
Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes to Beef Up the FDA
Reports: Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion
Reports: Calling the Bluff on Deficits
Reports: Look Who’s the Decider Now
Ear to the Ground: The Day China Diverted the Internet
Ear to the Ground: Senate May Consider Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal
Reports: The Earmark Sideshow
Reports: Saying Goodbye to Compassionate Conservatism
Ear to the Ground: Republicans Give Up Pork
Ear to the Ground: Murkowski’s Miracle on Ice
Reports: A Lame and Spineless Duck?
Reports: Do Only Conservative Victories Count?
Reports: Wanted: Mojo All Around
Ear to the Ground: Senate to Drop ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal
Reports: From Uprising to Hostile Takeover ... and Back Again
Reports: A Third Party?
Reports: Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Reports: And Now for the Next Battle
Ear to the Ground: Republicans Take the House, Democrats Keep the Senate (Update)
Ear to the Ground: Rand Paul Makes It Official
Reports: The World Is Safer Without a Republican House
Reports: Christine O’Donnell Favors Separation of Speech and Thought
Reports: The Mondo-Bizarro Campaign
Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton Urged the Democrat to Drop Out of Florida’s Senate Race
Reports: Why Anita Hill’s Testimony Matters
A/V Booth: Angle: Reid Is Trying to ‘Steal’ Nevada Election
Reports: Joe Sestak’s Witching Hour
Reports: Annoyer in Chief
Ear to the Ground: GOP on Track to Take the House
Ear to the Ground: Fiorina Heads to the Hospital
Ear to the Ground: BP and Other Polluters Pay for Senate Campaigns
Reports: What If? So What?
Ear to the Ground: McConnell: Ousting Obama Is GOP’s Top Goal
Reports: The Scandal of 2010
Ear to the Ground: Obama Steps Up for Boxer
Reports: Thugs on the Right
A/V Booth: Christine O’Donnell’s Staggering Ignorance
Reports: Don’t Man Up, Grow Up
Ear to the Ground: Bush’s Brain’s Brain?
Reports: The Wave and the Reality
A/V Booth: Christine O’Donnell, Auto-Tuned
Reports: The GOP’s Triple Play
Reports: Looney, and That’s No Debate
Ear to the Ground: O’Donnell Drops the Marx Bomb in Delaware Debate
Reports: They All Do It
Reports: A Generation of Termites
A/V Booth: Run and Tell That, Christine O’Donnell
Reports: Tory vs. Voodoo Conservatism
Reports: Will Black Voters Respond to Obama’s Needs?
Reports: The Shadow Class War of 2010
Reports: Needed: Competition for Black Votes
Reports: Tea Party Socialism
Cartoons: Lawyers Run America
Arts and Culture: Congress Dials Down TV Commercials
Ear to the Ground: Rahmbo Resignation Announcement Coming Friday
Reports: Look Who’s Killing Jobs Now
Reports: Obama and the Progressive Paradox
Ear to the Ground: China vs. the House of Representatives
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