…or 4.4 percent. Sen. Barbara Boxer’s☼ Environment and Public Works Committee has prepared a list of EPA programs and research activities that will be cut if Bush gets his way….

The FOMC (the interest rate-setting committee at the Fed) raised the Federal Funds rate to 5.0% today. Here’s the important bit of the accompanying statement: Economic growth has been quite…

This afternoon I received an email from the National Republican Senatorial Committee. What really stood out is that the NRSC has only one talking point: Vote GOP or Bush might…

CNN reports: The hearing began with a sudden and sharp partisan dispute when Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter ruled that Gonzales did not have to be sworn in to…

Apparently, Donald Marron testified to the Senate Budget Committee yesterday – and if the account I’m being told is true, I have a lot more respect for Senator Judd Gregg…

…compensation consultants and poorly informed compensation committees. Compensation committees only get the information the CEO wants them to have, and are often chosen by the CEO. So they turn to…

Looks Like Nader Might Run Via Talking Points Memo, I see that there is a Nader 2004 Presidential Exploratory Committee website now. Not wanting to criticize Nader without cause, I…

…step of canceling all business of the committee investigating prewar intelligence on Iraq. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) called on the author of the memo — which laid out a…

…House Committee on Government Reform. At the time, the Dept. of Defense was seeking (I believe successfully) to get exemptions from the Civil Service statutes similar to those that the…

…subject himself to the regulations governing the operation of a state political action committee. When he was summoned to a hearing before the Ohio Elections Commission in April 2011, Mr….