With unified control on Capitol Hill, DC Republicans are now planning on forcing the CBO, the official Congressional number crunching office, to start using special GOP math (aka “dynamic scoring”) to analyze their budget bills.
Over recent weeks, as the shooting deaths of Michael Brown and Tamir Rice and the earlier chokehold death of Eric Garner have woven together into a common narrative about race, police violence and accountability, we can see something like a movement taking shape not only in individual cities but nationwide. But we should ask the question: why now?
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GOP tried to attach a new contraception rule to the funding bill that’s supposed to stop a government shutdown.
Dems may have struck a deal to keep legal weed out of the nation’s capital.
The top five moments of drama, nonsense and derp from today Gruber hearing on Capitol Hill.
For a lot of folks, the Senate Intel Committee report is so long overdue that it seems like a rehash (no, there’s lots of new details in here) of a dark chapter that has been closed. But so long as the CIA continues to assert that torture (though it doesn’t use that word) yielded actionable intelligence, I don’t see how you can call this a closed chapter in American history. From CIA Director John Brennan’s statement today (“EITs” is the euphemism for torture: enhanced interrogation techniques):
With today’s Gruber auto de fe, it’s worth stating again something that is obvious and really indisputable: Obamacare is almost certainly the most deeply scrutinized, discussed and argued over piece of legislation of the entire 20th century and early 21st century. Jonathan Gruber saying something silly at a conference doesn’t change that.