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Are Today's Cars Too Smart for Their Own Good?
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 4) -- Today's cars are technical wonders largely controlled by complex computer systems. But as Toyota struggles to identify the cause of the sudden acceleration problems that are believed to have contributed to the deaths of dozens of people, some are wondering whether all that technology is really such a good thing. This week, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood addressed a Senate Commerce Committee hearing trying to determine how the government can do a better job identifying safety risks in cars. "We're looking at the possibility of recommending the brake override system in all ...
Rockefeller Proposal Would Hamstring EPA Efforts to Cut Greenhouse Gases
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn a blow to the Obama administration's environmental agenda, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, will press for a two-year moratorium on the EPA's power to regulate the greenhouse gases that pour out of coal-fired power plants and factories. The move by Rockefeller, a liberal on most matters, shows just how tough it will be for Obama and his allies to win the fight against global warming, as the cap-and-trade system intended to limit carbon emissions has been bogged down in the Senate. "Today, we took important action to safeguard jobs, the coal industry and the entire economy, ...
Without a Public Option, Is It Really Reform?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- The holiday season rush is on in Washington. President Barack Obama is pushing the Senate to pass a health care reform bill by Christmas. Now it looks like the legislation won't include everything on his wish list. Senate Democrats have decided to drop a proposal to let people buy into Medicare starting at age 55. The concession is intended to win over Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats but has been giving them fits with his threats to filibuster anything resembling a "public option" for health insurance. The Medicare expansion was an ...
The Health Battles That Won't Die: Lieberman, Taxes, Abortion and (Oh, Yeah!) the House
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySenate Majority Leader Harry Reid showed just how ugly legislating can get on Monday night, when he called the members of his exhausted, fractured caucus together for an emergency meeting to discuss health reform. Once inside the large room in the Capitol, he gave them a reality check and a choice. First, the reality check: The only people keeping the Democrats from passing health care reform were other Democrats. Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, had announced the day before that he would filibuster the bill if it contained a Medicare expansion, while a ...
Jay Rockefeller on the Public Option: 'I Will Not Relent'
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyJay Rockefeller has waited a long time for this moment. Since 1964, to be exact. So he was unabashedly emotional as the Senate Finance Committee neared completion of its work on health reform. "I feel the way I feel and I am who I am," the West Virginia Democrat said at the end of a teary, post-midnight monologue about his work as a VISTA volunteer 45 years ago. Who is he and how does he feel? The great-grandson and namesake of America's first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller IV is a 6-foot-6, 72-year-old Harvard graduate who studied Japanese in Tokyo and Chinese at Yale. He's also a longtime ...
Baucus Releases Health Care Bill, Without Public Option, Amid Fire From the Left and Right
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) released the details of his health care reform bill Wednesday amid complaints from a senior Democrat that it will be a "big, big tax" on the middle class, as well as a refusal by Republicans to endorse the proposal even though several had negotiated with Baucus on the legislation for months. The Baucus bill, which will be debated and voted on by the Senate Finance Committee next week, is the second and final portion of health care reform to be taken up by the Senate. The Senate Health Committee approved its portion of reforms in July, when all three House committees ...
A Republican Trap for Democrats on Health Care?
By David Corn - Politics DailyAre the Democrats about to walk into a Republican trap on health care? As I monitor the latest back and forth, I feel as if I'm watching a cheesy horror flick and some poor unsuspecting person is about to open the wrong door--and you want to scream, "Hey, don't open that door!" But....In the Senate, the Democrats (presumably with President Barack Obama's blessings) are still trying to win one to three Republican votes for a health care reform package. So as the Gang of Six--that bipartisan group of senators--has continued to negotiate, Senator Max Baucus, the Democratic chairman of the finance ...
Cybersecurity Bill Gives President Broad Powers Over Internet
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA Senate bill that put civil libertarians on edge earlier this year is still in the works: CNET obtained a copy of the current revision of S.773, a measure that would give the president authority to disconnect the private Internet networks during a "cybersecurity emergency." The original bill, introduced by Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) in April, called for an Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor that would have vast powers over Internet traffic. In other words, Internet oversight would move from the Department of Homeland Security to the White House. ...
So Which Senators Didn't Want Credit Card Reform?
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyYou've probably read that the both the House and Senate passed credit card reform legislation this week -- and by sweeping margins. The House vote was 361-64, which was impressive enough, until you compare it to the Senate, which voted 90-5.In fact the margin was so wide in the Senate, it had a lot of folks wondering who out there didn't think it was a good idea to eliminate double-cycle billing and predatory rate hikes on the most vulnerable Americans. Heck, even Sen. Tom Coburn (R-NRA) voted in favor of the bill-- albeit only after amending it to usher handguns into national parks.Well here ...
U.S. Government May Have Your Credit Card Records, Too
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFormer intelligence officer turned whistleblower, Russell Tice, added new a new wrinkle to the revelations that under the Bush Administration's directives, the U.S. government spied on its own citizens using then-illegal wiretaps. Interviewed by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Tice detailed how Uncle Sam got into the business of data mining the credit card information of "tens of thousands" of ordinary Americans, and retains that purchase information to this day. Here's the Q & A:So, does it matter whether the federal government knows how many pairs of pants you purchased at J. Crew? Well, yes. Of ...
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