UPDATE: 12:27 AM EST, 10/17/2013: President Barack Obama signed a last-minute bi-partisan deal early Thursday morning to avert a debt default and to reopen the government after the 16-day GOP shutdown. From the White House: On Thursday, October 17, 2013, the President signed into law: H.R. 2775, the “Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014,” which provides fiscal year […]
UPDATE — 10:31 PM ET, 10/02/13: From the Wall Street Journal: About 200 patients each week with rare or especially severe diseases seek treatment at the [National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md], and the federal agency Tuesday began turning away patients for next week. About 30 of these are children, many suffering from cancer. “We’ve […]
If this world were mine, I’d see to it that anyone who felt compelled to politicize a national tragedy mere hours after it happened be muffed with a muzzle and have their fingers duct taped together as they watch their keyboards and keypads doused with a bucket of water. That’s not to say that there […]
Later this afternoon, President Barack Obama will meet with Democratic congressional leaders Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) along with their Republican counterparts Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) hoping to avert going over the highly publicized “fiscal cliff.” With the White House previously noting how stagnant the talks […]
Despite all evidence suggesting that it’s in their best interest to do otherwise, Republicans are stubbornly clinging to the “Effie White” approach to health care: “Yes, you, and you, and you…you’re gonna deal with our efforts to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act. Already several Republican governors have vowed NOT to enact the law, wishing […]
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will oppose the new START Treaty, a bilateral arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia that is one of President Obama’s top foreign relations priorities.
