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prospect.org - 1/7/2009

THE FIRST TEN SENATE BILLS.

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A Democratic aide on the hill passes along the first ten bills that Majority Leader Harry Reid will put in the hopper this evening to kick off the new session of Congress, as sent by leadership to various Senate Legislative Directors. Unfortunately for us, the bills are placeholders that only ...

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Amygdala — YOUR TOP TEN CONGRESSIONAL HITS, coming to your neighborhood shortly, is the plan (stolen from Tapped): [...] * S.1 -- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. "To create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America’s middle class through measures that modernize the nation’s infrastructure, enhance America’s energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for other purposes." The stimulus bill; no surprises here. ...

No Crime Bills Among Initial Top Ten Bills for Senate
TalkLeft — Think Progress received a copy of the first ten bills that Sen. Harry Reid will seek to have passed in the Senate. There's not a crime bill among them. Democrats now control both houses of Congress with a Democratic president -- for the first time in 16 years. The House stands at 256 to 178 with one vacancy. If Al Franken is sworn in, Dems will hold 59 seats in the Senate. ...

The First Ten Senate Bills of the 111th Congress
Ace of Spades HQ — The First Ten Senate Bills of the 111th Congress You may want to fix yourself a drink before I go through them. At the moment these are placeholders on Harry Reid's wishlist. Keep in mind that incoming Congresses usually pinch off a few bills that don't necessarily go anywhere. Also, the Democrats are going to have to nail down the details on these and that may give us some opportunity to tug things towards the center. S.1 -- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This is the stimulus package. Democrats are halfheartedly trying to reach out to Republicans on this ...

Ugly: Behold The First Ten Bills Of The 111th Congress
Say Anything — Ugly: S.1—American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. “To create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America’s middle class through measures that modernize the nation’s infrastructure, enhance America’s energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for other purposes.” The stimulus bill; no surprises here. S.2—Middle Class Opportunity Act of 2009. Sound familiar? This is a retread of a bill sponsored by Senator Chuck Schumer in the last Congress that has a variety of tax reform goals; the additional ...

Employee Free Choice on the Early Agenda?
Daily Kos — Perhaps the biggest question surrounding the Employee Free Choice Act has been when we can expect Congress to act on the bill. In recent weeks, there has been a current of reporting, particularly in right-leaning media, suggesting that Free Choice was being moved to the legislative back burner. But there are fresh indications that Congress and the Obama Administration (God, it feels good to type that) recognize that we can't have genuine middle-class stimulus without the wage-buoying effects of collective bargaining -- the very effects that the Employee Free Choice Act is designed to create. Matt Cooper writes today: There is no ...

What Happened to Bush's Pardons? They Came in the Form of Midnight Regulations
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White The one foregone conclusion about the outgoing Bush Administration on the part of the media was that the amount of last-minute pardons would be sizeable, and their content would be controversial. Click here for a compiled list of journalists and others assuring readers this would happen; it's a great illustration of how hard we were all hyperventilating about pardons in these final weeks. But it was a frightening thought. Bush has a lot of nasty friends, but the scariest scenario was that Bush would proactively pardon himself and others in his administration to avoid later prosecution on a host of illegal activities allegedly carried out over the ...