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Congress Delays Vote on Bush Tax Cuts Until After Elections
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWith a potentially bruising election less than six weeks away, Democrats on Capitol Hill came to an impasse Thursday over what to do about the Bush tax cuts. The result was a decision to do nothing, at least until after the elections, when Congress comes back to Washington for a lame duck session. For weeks, Republicans have happily watched from the sidelines as liberal and moderate Democrats have struggled to agree on the best course of action, both politically and on policy grounds, with the Bush-era tax policy that Democrats describe as a "time bomb." All of the tax cuts -- including those ...
Dick Durbin Allegedly Insults Student as For-Profit College Debate Unfolds
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyDavid Mahan, a 29-year-old student studying digital design, says an angry Sen. Dick Durbin noticed him wearing a T-shirt for his college -- Illinois Institute of Art, Schaumburg (ILIS) -- while protesting outside an education hearing Durbin was holding at the Dirksen building last Tuesday. Mahan (a veteran who served in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan) tells me that after some back-and-forth, Durbin said: "I don't give a tick s--- about ILIS." A Durbin spokesman denied the Democratic senator made that particular remark, but Matt Reams, another ILIS student who witnessed the encounter, insists ...
Is Chuck Schumer Most Likely to Succeed Harry Reid?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyThis week on Politics Daily's online Sunday show, Woman UP, Alex Wagner, Patricia Murphy, Lynn Sweet, Bonnie Erbe' and I discuss the Senate vultures already circling the not-dead-yet Harry Reid -- and campaiging to succeed him as majority leader. And for all those on both the left and right who have complained about Reid, we have two words for you: Chuck Schumer. Click play below to watch the video: ...
Credit Cards: Senate Gives Stores More Flexibility on Fees, Discounts
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyEvery time you swipe that plastic, it costs not only you as a customer but also the store where you're doing business. But with a nod to small businesses, the U.S. Senate wants to give retailers more flexibility in offering discounts to buyers who pay with cash or use credit cards with cheaper bank fees. The amendment to the broader financial reform bill passed, 64-33, on Thursday with 17 Republicans joining a Democratic majority. The legislation would also allow retailers to set minimum thresholds for accepting cards and direct the Federal Reserve to write rules determining what is ...
Nancy Pelosi: Public Option Will Not Be in the Health Care Bill
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back aggressively in response to Sen. Richard Durbin's statement that he will work hard to pass a public option, should the House include it in a package of "fixes" for the upcoming health care reform reconciliation process. In a statement to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a Durbin spokesman said Friday morning, "I want to be crystal-clear: Senator Durbin and the rest of the Senate leadership will be aggressively whipping for the public option, if it is included in the reconciliation bill the House sends over." The PCCC has secured commitments ...
D.C. Unsung Hero: Malika Saada-Saar of the Rebecca Project
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyStatus in Washington, D.C., is based on power and access to power, which leads to wealth and media fame. Rarely in this town do those who have power or access to power turn down the ensuing wealth or fame. Malika Saada-Saar is one of those selfless few. Saada-Saar is the founder and executive director of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, a non-partisan, non-profit which advocates for public policy reform and justice on behalf of women on the margins of society -- the poor, the addicted, the victims of abuse and domestic violence, and especially those in prison. Saada-Saar has effectively ...
Obama Forces Orchestrate Taking Back Town Halls
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Obama, the former community organizer, got elected with the mother of organizing campaigns -- relying on grassroots and netroots -- and now his allies are moaning about "orchestrated" protests at health care town halls that target Democratic lawmakers back home for summer break. "Clearly this is being orchestrated, and these folks have instructions," Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." Last week, Durbin told me as he was leaving a White House meeting on health care with Obama that the protesters are "tea baggers" and "birthers." ...
Congress Moves to Curb Credit Cards for 21 and Under
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyAfter bailing out Wall Street, Democrats in Congress and President Obama are pushing reforms intended to protect individual consumers from unfair financial practices---especially from credit card companies. ...
Fairweather Friend Joe Lieberman May Return to Democratic Party in 2012
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFrom The Hill comes word that Democratic-turned-Independent Senator Joe Lieberman may pull an about face and return to the party he scorned (and that scorned him) back in '06. Though he has made no official decision on whether to run again, let alone whether to do so as an Independent or as a Democrat, since Barack Obama was elected president, Lieberman has made several moves to patch things up with his former party. But it was Obama's gestures that really made the reunion a possibility when the president-elect voiced his support over the objections of many fellow Democrats for Lieberman to ...
Burris Vows Not to Resign Until Every Illinoisan Is Humiliated
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyBefore we go any further: Yes, "Illinoisan" is a word. There's even a newspaper with that word in the title.And if that paper's readers weren't embarrassed enough by getting their news from an entity that just brazenly rewrites the dictionary like that, well there's someone out there to pick up the slack...Their state's junior senator, Roland Burris.Burris, who has been told to resign by Governor Pat Quinn, Senator Dick Durbin, the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, and local political goon Bill Daley, refuses to heed their calls. U.S. Senator Roland Burris, under pressure to resign after ...
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