Powerless to affect the situation, Wisconsin Senate Republicans pass a resolution fining out of state Dems a $100 a day for their absence.

American Muslims decry “cottage industry of hate” ahead of House hearings on American Muslims.

TPM talks to one of the 14 Wisconsin state Senate Dems about the Republican vote to fine them $100 a day for every day they stay out of the state. They don’t seem fazed. “They’ve become increasingly desperate with these petty things that they’re throwing out there,” State Sen. Chris Larson (D) tells TPM. “The next thing they’re gonna throw out is we’re gonna have to say ‘Mother, may I’ before anybody can talk.”

Huckabee says he misspoke yesterday about saying President Obama grew up in Kenya. So why is he back today saying Obama’s a Muslim?

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It took some serious shenanigans by Ohio Republicans in the state Senate — including removing two pro-union GOP senators from their respective committees — for Gov. John Kasich’s Wisconsin-style union-busting bill to make it to the Senate floor today, where it passed by a single vote.

Huckabee: Okay, Obama didn’t grow in Kenya but he’s still anti-American and wants to replace the Boy Scouts with Madrassas since he’s got a Madrassa worldview.

Anti-Union bill passes on a 17-16 vote through Ohio Senate; all it took was purging two Republican committee members.

Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), who is 86 years old, has announced he will retire at the end of this Congress. Akaka’s full statement: Read More

President Obama’s job approval since election day 2010

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