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More Turbulence for McCaskill as Missouri Dem Pays Back Taxes on Private Plane
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailySen. Claire McCaskill might want to strap on a parachute: The airplane she co-owns keeps flying through rough air. After reimbursing taxpayers $88,000 for using government funds to pay for campaign travel on the personal aircraft, the Missouri Democrat on Monday pulled out her checkbook again, this time to pay $287,000 in back property taxes on it. The amount covers taxes from 2007 to 2010. McCaskill bought the plane in 2006 with her husband, wealthy businessman Joseph Shepard, and other investors. "I'm disappointed in myself that this mistake was made, but I have done an awful lot on ...
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 ...
Led by Inouye, Democrats Are Getting Fiscal Religion on Earmarks, Deficits
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyAre Senate Democrats getting religion -- fiscal religion, that is? Sen. Daniel Inouye, head of the Appropriations Committee, says he will enforce a ban on earmarks -- costly, unauthorized add-ons that get slipped into spending bills, often for the benefit of narrow special interests. Inouye (D-Hawaii) imposed the two-year moratorium in the aftermath of President Obama's State of the Union threat to veto special interest projects that land on his desk. Yet just last week, Inouye's colleague, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid -- no shirker when it comes to pork-barrel spending -- minimized ...
Should Democrats Give Up on the Individual Health Insurance Mandate?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe most controversial part of the Affordable Care Act is its requirement that, starting in 2014, almost everyone in the country has to buy health insurance. The left calls it a sop to insurance companies, the right calls it unconstitutional, and polls show that the public opposes the requirement 2 to 1. Could the "individual mandate" disappear? And would that unravel the whole health-care reform law? House Republicans are poised this week to pass the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act," though perhaps in a more "thoughtful" mode than was contemplated before the Arizona shootings ...
Right for America or Wrong for Illegals? DREAM Act Takes Center Stage
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe most ardent proponents of the DREAM Act know their chances of victory in the next few weeks are slim, but they also know that failure is pretty much inevitable if they wait until next year. Thus we are in the midst of a full-court press on yet another cause that once had substantial bipartisan support, but may not any longer. DREAM, expected to come up for a vote in the year-end lame-duck session of Congress, is catchy shorthand for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors. Translation: The act would offer a path to citizenship – and economic prosperity -- for undocumented ...
Senate Battles Over Pork; Reid Calls Earmarks an 'Obligation'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAs Senate Republicans moved to enact a two-year moratorium on earmarks this week, dissent roiled the ranks of Democrats and Republicans over the practice that allows individual lawmakers to designate federal funds for specific projects, usually in their states. Although Senate Republicans have vowed to halt the practice, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid defended it Tuesday as the obligation of every member of Congress. "I believe, personally, we have a constitutional obligation, a responsibility, to do congressionally directed spending. I do not feel comfortable turning that over to the ...
Senate Approves $600M for Border Patrol, Surveillance Drones
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn one of their last acts before a summer recess, U.S. senators approved a $600 million package to beef up security along the Mexican border with 1,500 additional guards and unmanned surveillance drones. The bill, which passed on a voice vote, would be financed by raising fees on foreign-based personnel companies that bring skilled workers into the United States, often from India. The House of Representatives passed similar legislation, and could take up the Senate bill when it comes back from its summer recess for a one-day session next week, the Associated Press said. Sen. Charles Schumer ...
Sen. Scott Brown on Arlington National Cemetery Failures: 'It's a Joke'
By Brian Schneider - Politics DailyAs many as 6,600 graves at Arlington National Cemetery could be unmarked or mislabeled, thousands more than the initial estimates, a Senate panel learned Thursday. The former superintendent said he didn't know how the problem could have happened. "As frustrated as you are with this, we are even more so," John Metzler, the former superintendent at Arlington, said during during testimony at a Senate subcommittee looking into the issue. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who chairs the subcommittee, said Thursday her investigations have found that 4,900 to 6,600 graves are unmarked or improperly ...
Triumph of the Senate Deficit Hawks: The Incredible Shrinking Stimulus
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyWith exquisite timing, the Obama administration launched Thursday what it ballyhooed as "Recovery Summer" -- a public relations offense intended to highlight the last jolt of its economic stimulus spending. As Joe Biden put it at a White House briefing with exuberantly mixed metaphors: "This summer you're going to see even more ripple effects out there. . . . The pace on the ball is moving into its highest gear here in terms of direct investment in projects." President Barack Obama flies to Columbus, Ohio, on Friday to play swing-state politics with the groundbreaking of the 10,000th (but ...
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