AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
See More Stories
Executive Behind Lavish Conference Leaves Agency
Warren And Brown Neck And Neck In New Poll
Ben Nelson
Four Mysteries That Will Shape the Fate of Centrist Democratic Senators in 2012
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyAnd then there were five. Two centrist Democratic senators from conservative or moderate states, Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Jim Webb of Virginia, have announced they will retire rather than run for reelection next year. That leaves Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Bill Nelson of Florida, Jon Tester of Montana, and Ben Nelson of Nebraska (who just hired a campaign manager and looks ready to run). Are they doomed, along with their party's fragile 53-47 hold on the Senate? Sometimes you really can gauge future elections by what happened in the last go-round. The ...
Legislation Would Make Sharing TSA's Body Scan Images a Crime
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsProposed new legislation would protect travelers who worry that images taken of them by airport scanners could end up on the Internet. An amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration re-authorization bill would make it a crime to share images taken by the Transportation Security Administration's full-body scanners, which produce graphic images of the human body. Those found guilty of violating the Security Screening Confidential Data Privacy Act, legislation being co-sponsored by Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer of New York and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, could spend up to a year in prison ...
How the Challenger Tragedy Gripped the Nation: A 'Perfect Storm' of Events
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyJust 73 seconds after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center, on the unusually cold Florida morning of Jan. 28, 1986, things went horribly wrong for the space shuttle Challenger. And two minutes later, with some or all of its seven crew members still possibly conscious, the craft slammed into the Atlantic Ocean seven miles off the coast. Challenger, and the remains of its occupants, would not be retrieved for weeks. Images of smoke and flames visible against a crystalline sky were replayed over and over from that day forward. So were NASA promo clips of the crew floating weightlessly ...
Opinion: The Dems' Epic Fail on Tax Cuts
By Michael Cohen - AOL News(Dec. 6) -- It looks like Washington's version of "Let's Make a Deal" has finally come to an end. The White House and congressional Republicans are on the verge of making a deal to extend the Bush tax cuts even for those making more than $250,000 a year. Surprisingly, President Barack Obama seems to have swung a deal far better than nearly anyone might have expected -- in return for granting Republicans what is seemingly their most important policy objective (keeping tax rates low for rich people) the White House has finagled a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits, a payroll tax ...
Bush Tax Cuts For Wealthy Gaining Ground With Worried Democrats
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWith a bruising election likely ahead of them and the economy proving resistant to any quick fixes, nearly two dozen moderate Democrats are pushing for a proposal on the expiring Bush tax cuts that was all-but-unthinkable to liberals a year ago -- extending all of the tax cuts, even those for the wealthiest Americas, at least for a while. The number of moderates proposing the idea is far from a majority, but more than enough to scuttle President Obama's campaign promise to allow the Bush-era tax cuts to expire for individuals making more than $200,000 and for families making more than ...
Democrats May Keep Bush Tax Cuts for Rich
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 2) -- While Democrats may complain about the tyranny of the filibuster and lack of majority rule in our congressional system, when it comes to preserving the Bush tax cuts for the rich, it's likely to be their own party members who are responsible. President Barack Obama has indicated that he'd like to see the cuts remain in place for Americans who earn less than $250,000 a year but see those who earn more taxed at the pre-2001 rates. "However, a small but growing number of moderate Democrats are balking at boosting taxes on the rich," reports McClatchy Newspapers. McClatchy ...
NASA Preps Quest for 'Holy Grail of Hurricane Science'
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- We know when they form, where they form and where they are likely to go, but the "why" and "how" and "how strong" of hurricanes remain something of a mystery. That ambiguity won't stand for much longer if NASA has anything to say about it, however. This month, the agency better known for its space-faring missions is launching the "largest-ever hurricane research experiment," the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes effort, aka GRIP. It will involve satellites and seven different aircraft, including three from research partner organizations the National Oceanic and ...
Elena Kagan Draws Opposition From Senators Who Backed Sotomayor
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThere is no question that Elena Kagan will be easily confirmed by the Senate this week to join the U.S. Supreme Court. But in recent days, Kagan has lost a handful of key votes from both sides of the aisle that Sonia Sotomayor secured during her confirmation process a year ago. Several moderate senators say Kagan's limited courtroom experience makes her too much of an unknown to support. When the Senate voted 68 to 31 to confirm Sotomayor in 2009, every Democrat and nine Republicans backed her, while 31 GOP senators voted no. Among the nine Republicans who supported Sotomayor were Sens. ...
Elena Kagan Confirmation Debate Starts in the Senate
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWith the results all but certain, senators are beginning a largely academic debate Tuesday on whether to confirm Elena Kagan to become the next justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The road to this stage of the process has been mostly smooth for Kagan, who was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, 13 to 6, earlier this month with the support of South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham. But her hearings were not completely without controversy, as top Republicans blasted her lack of judicial experience, while conservatives focused on her role in limiting military recruiters' access to ...
Sen. Ben Nelson Is First Democrat to Oppose Kagan for Supreme Court
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said Friday he will vote against confirming Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice, making him the first Democrat to oppose President Obama's nominee. "I have heard concerns from Nebraskans regarding Ms. Kagan, and her lack of a judicial record makes it difficult for me to discount the concerns raised by Nebraskans, or to reach a level of comfort that these concerns are unfounded," Nelson said in a statement. "Therefore, I will not vote to confirm Ms. Kagan's nomination." Nelson added that he would not join Republicans if they try to filibuster Kagan. "In my view, ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- GSA Bash Organizer Steps Down
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics