In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 5 days ago

In his weekly radio and video address this morning, President-elect Obama gave the most detailed description yet of his economic stimulus proposal: He...

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In Climate Progress - Posted 6 days ago

Congressional Quarterly Online reported this week:The two senior House Democrats with jurisdiction over energy and telecommunications policies could s...

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In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 6 days ago

Between road tripping up the East Coast, weathering a Nor'easter and celebrating 2009, I've lost track of the Congress rumor mill a bit. So, rather t...

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In Environmental Economics - Posted 1 week ago

January 20, 2006, John wrote:OK, I'm starting to get it. We should raise the gas tax to $1/gal but, if we can tax mileage, that would be better (in te...

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In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 1 week ago

CQ has released their 2008 vote comparison report for the Senate and the House go check it out. The report takes into consideration how often law...

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In GristMill - Posted 2 weeks ago

By Guest authorThis is a guest post by long-time Iowa organic farmer and food activist, Denise O'Brien, who narrowly lost a bid for the state's secret...

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In Worldwatch Institute - Posted 2 weeks ago

President-elect Barack Obama nominated the former governor of Iowa, Tom Vilsack, to serve as his secretary of agriculture earlier this week. If approv...

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In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 3 weeks ago

Following up on my post earlier in the week, here's a rundown of some of the most opposed bills from the last session of Congress, according to the B...

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In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 3 weeks ago

The Employee Free Choice Act is one of those bills that Democrats are hoping to force past a Republican filibuster next year with their expanded major...

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In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 4 weeks ago

The most popular bill of the 110th Congress is the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008, which makes sense given the recent repo...

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