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Opinion: Judicial Activism Has a New Face

(July 2) -- If you want to make a progressive tremble, yell "judicial activist" and laugh as they cower under their desk in fear. At least, that's been the pattern for the past two decades of judicial confirmation hearings. So when Elena Kagan took her seat at the beginning of her confirmation hearing, her opponents were...

GOP Is Taking Political Risks in Health Care Fight

WASHINGTON (March 18) -- As the House moves toward passing sweeping health care reform, the threats from Senate Republicans keep coming. The latest is a promise to force a battle royal in the Senate over legislative fixes that House Democrats have demanded in exchange for their vote. But what will be left for the GOP to...

Health Care Bill Clears Key Senate Test

WASHINGTON (Dec. 21) - Senate Democrats won a crucial test vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, putting them on track for passage before Christmas of the historic legislation to remake the nation's medical system and cover 30 million uninsured. All 58 Democrats and the Senate's two independents held...

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Tom Coburn Asks Parties To Give Back Taxpayer Money For Lavish National Conventions

If politicians are so worked up over lavish conventions funded by taxpayers, the two major parties should give back more than $35 million they are given to hold their extravagant national political conventions, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) argued Thursday.

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05/30/12 Social Security disability trust fund projected to run... Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC "It's really striking how rapidly this is growing, how big it's become and how D.C. is just afraid of it," said Mark Duggan, a University of Pennsylvania economist and adviser to the Social Security Administration.
05/25/12 Sens admonish Coburn for contact with Ensign aide Source: CBS - WCBI TV - North Mississippi and West Alabama (AP) WASHINGTON --The Senate Ethics Committee admonished Republican Sen. Tom Coburn on Friday over his contact with a top aide to former Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada lawmaker who resigned in disgrace last year after lying about his affair with the staffer's wife.
05/25/12 Viewpoints: Bill could make universal health care... Source: News-Medical.Net Universal coverage, Medicare for all, single payer -- call it what you will.
05/24/12 Senate Agreement to Bring 5-Year NFIP Bill to Floor... Source: American Agent & Broker Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., made a commitment late Wednesday afternoon for floor consideration of the Senate's five-year National Flood Insurance Program extension within 60 days, but the deal with a Republican hit a snag over the timing of a provision.
05/24/12 Tom Coburn Vows to Block Flood Insurance Bill Source: Roll Call - Washington DC Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said he would block an agreement to extend the nation's flood insurance program for 60 days unless the Senate agrees to include a provision permanently excluding vacation homes.