Tag: Congress
Overblown swine flu rhetoric part of broader anti-immigration strategy
If the anti-immigrant reactions to the outbreak of swine flu are any indication, advocates for immigration reform are going to have an uphill battle in Congress this year.
Lamborn mobilizes conservatives on HHS nominee Sebelius fight, bombs out
The dean of Colorado's Republican congressional delegation flexed his political muscle today with a strongly worded letter to President Barack Obama urging him to reject his own HHS secretary nominee Kathleen Sebelius.
Colo. Dems so far resist calls for earmark reform
There are reasons to dismiss earmark-reform crusader and Arizona Republican Rep. Jeff Flake. For one, his name is Jeff Flake. He also has biggish blond hair and every couple of weeks he introduces another resolution calling for investigation into earmark corruption, each one killed the moment it hits the floor. He trotted out his last one on April Fool's Day. It too died straight away. Speaker Pelosi has basically mocked him as an unserious reformer or showboater or both.
But Flake and his growing list of lawmaker-supporters won’t go away, partly because he's right on this.
Banks 1, People Zip. Congress delays credit card reform
If Capitol Hill lawmakers were playing a high stakes game of chicken with the banking industry over your credit score, guess who just blinked?
Mike Lillis, congressional reporter for our sister site The Washington Independent, examines the winners and losers in the latest setback on credit card reform to rein in outrageous rate hikes and hidden fees.
Bankers and their GOP friends battle American people, cont’d
Monday, the state was presented with the downcast rural face of the banking crisis -- the fallout in Greeley of the bad loans and shrinking reserves that mark the nation's economic reality.
How many more Greeleys should we expect to see in the next few months? According to the influential Baseline Scenario bloggers, it depends on who wins in the great and mostly unreported battle that's waging between the Finance Industry and the American People.
As mass shootings surge, Congress looks away
In recent weeks more than 60 people — including seven police officers — have been killed in multiple-death shootings from coast to coast.
‘Just call me Jared,’ Polis says in CNN blog chronicling freshman...
He spends his free time having his staff quiz him with flashcards that show other members of Congress, their home states and their committees -- but don't call him "congressman," says the freshman Democrat from Boulder.
"Seriously, for my sanity, just call me Jared," writes Rep. Jared Polis in his debut blog entry on CNN's "Freshman Year" feature, which will follow Polis and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, as they get their bearings in Congress.
Perlmutter scores Dem leadership post with election as regional whip
Democrat Ed Perlmutter, who easily won re-election to a second term representing Colorado's 7th Congressional District, adds his name to the growing ranks of the state's delegation in leadership positions. The House Democratic Caucus selected Perlmutter to serve as regional whip — counting votes and enforcing party discipline — for the Mountain West and Northwest, his office announced Friday.
Census Count: The Next Hanging Chad of Election Scandals?
Hard-core political numbers junkies sprouted a few extra gray hairs this week. The cause of their grief wasn't the perpetually suspect electronic voting machines...
UPDATED: DeGette to Congress: Show Me the Money (for the Democratic...
Getting any bills through Congress and signed by the president seems to be a difficult procedure these days -- including the bill to reimburse...