This feels a bit time-warpish, but Congress may try to re-pass (and then urge the states to ratify) the Equal Rights Amendment. Oh, joy. I always get excited at the prospect of ...

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From the AP: WASHINGTON - A sharply divided House voted Friday to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year, a vic...

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The New Mexico governor and presidential hopeful is doing something that about 99.999% of other viable presidential hopefuls wouldn’...

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Dems worked with Repubs and got the job done. Bravo. From the AP: WASHINGTON - The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to boost the federa...

Continue Reading 94-3, Minimum Wage Bill Passes Senate

The minimum wage bill saw a lot of action in the Senate but few actual results. As promised, Harry Reid let the Republicans propose a line-i...

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The House passed the legislation, and now it’s going to the Senate. The details… The House rolled back billions of dollars in oil ind...

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A few days ago I slammed Democrats for hypocritically exempting American Samoa from the new minimum wage law. In passing, I noted that one of the be...

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Governmental transparency is good — unless it involves legislative salaries. Rep. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., introduced a bill that would remove all information on H...

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In the spirit of “patriots” who want to criminalize flag-burning (thus missing the whole point of what the flag represents), I ...

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When it rains, it pours. From Political Animal: Here’s the nickel summary: In 2002 Hastert bought some land for a house along with some adjoi...

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Just read this from The Boston Globe: WASHINGTON — President Bush this week asserted that he has the executive authority to disobey a new law in which Congress has set minimum qualifications for future heads of the Fede...

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