Maryland House Committees Advance Marriage Equality Bill
15 Feb 2012 12:10am GMT The Maryland House Judiciary and Health & Government Operations Committees both voted today to advance the marriage equality bill. Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) is concerned that there are not yet enough votes for the bill to pass the full House, but this is still an important step for the legislation. The Senate Judiciary committee has [...]
Rep. Joe Walsh: If I Were Speaker, We’d Vote To Repeal ObamaCare Once A Month
14 Feb 2012 11:45pm GMT Tea Party firebrand Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) is apparently unsatisfied with the number of meaningless symbolic votes Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is holding, saying in a recent interview that he would prefer to repeatedly waste the House of Representatives’ time by voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act every single month. He told Accuracy in [...]
Heartland Documents Reveal Fringe Denial Group Plans to Pursue Koch Money, Dupe Children and Cultivate Revkin
14 Feb 2012 11:39pm GMT Racing around the internet are some internal documents that appear to be from the Heartland Institute, a relatively obscure hard-core anti-science think tank. As DeSmogBlog explains, “An anonymous donor calling him (or her)self ‘Heartland Insider’ has released the Heartland Institute’s budget, fundraising plan, its Climate Strategy for 2012 and sundry other documents (all attached) that [...]
Rand Paul Throws Judicial Filibuster Tantrum Over Foreign Policy Disagreement
14 Feb 2012 10:50pm GMT As Travis Waldron explained this morning, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) put a hold on a transportation bill that has broad bipartisan support in an attempt to force the Senate to enact his preferred policy on aid to Egypt. Although Paul’s tactic cannot prevent the widely supported bill from passing if Majority Leader Reid Harry (D-NV) [...]
800,000 Signatures Against Keystone XL Delivered To Senate Today
14 Feb 2012 10:43pm GMT In 24 hours, the 99 percent flooded the U.S. Senate with more than 800,000 messages opposing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This afternoon, 781,000 of the signatures to the Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline emergency petition were hand-delivered to the U.S. Capitol in boxes of 20,000 names each by members of 350.org, Green For [...]