The Commerce Department sends this over:
Secretary Bryson was involved in a traffic accident in Los Angeles over the weekend. He suffered a seizure. He was taken to the hospital for examination and remained overnight for observation. He was released and has returned to Washington. The investigation is ongoing. Secretary Bryson has no public events scheduled for today.
A new study assesses whether Romneycare adversely affected the employment rate in Massachusetts — and extrapolates a similar impact nationwide from Obamacare.
The very latest on that bizarre hit and run investigation of Commerce Secretary John Bryson. Authorities in California say they aren’t ruling anything out.
In Jeb Bush’s appearance this morning with BloombergView, he didn’t just depart on Reagan orthodoxy and earn the scorn of Grover Norquist. He also went out of his way to praise the 1990 budget deal which his father, George H.W.Bush struck with Democrats 22 years ago. That involved a tax increase and for those too young to remember is considered one of the ur-sacrileges on the anti-tax right.
Sure, President Bush is his dad so you wouldn’t expect him to be railing against it. But he went out of his way to praise it as a great act of statesmanship.
The International AIDS Conference convenes next month in DC — the first time in more than two decades that it’s been held in the United States — just as AIDS activists are resigning themselves to chronically weaker support from the Obama Administration than they had originally hoped for.
In today’s episode of The Set-Up, I look at the fate of public sector unions coming out of last Tuesday’s recall results in Wisconsin.
Josh Barro, Matt Yglesias and others have teed up this post to bat around various theories explaining why Democrats seem so much more concerned with getting Republicans to vote for higher tax revenues than with simply achieving higher revenues by doing nothing — allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire and then fixing tax code retroactively.
In one sense I think the question’s easy to answer. But I also think it’s a surface manifestation of a deeper fight between the parties, and that the real answer’s about much, much more than near-term politics. Read More
People say there’s no legislative progress on climate change. But legislators in multiple states are now pushing laws to ban discussion of rising sea levels.
Remember the gay soldier booed at that GOP debate last year? Now he’s campaigning against DOMA. “It literally takes away rights from soldiers. For me not to be able to go home and bury him is crazy,” says Army Captain Stephen Hill.
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