…preservation are not mutually exclusive, viewing the tree as a unique asset rather than an impediment. Of course, not every landowner has the budget of a super-luxury hotel. But preservation…

…me to work. Then leave the oversized, gasoline guzzling pickup truck with the super clean bed in back at home. Didn’t they all have Tonka trucks to play with and…

…PAC spending in elections once and for all. Corporations are not people. Pass the DISCLOSE Act: It’s time to force every super PAC, dark money nonprofit, and shell entity to…

by Linda Beale The Hill reports on “supercommittee Alexander Bolton reports that “With Supercommittee Deadlocked, leaders Reid and Boehner meet“, The Hill (Nov. 15, 2011). Reid (Dem) and Boehner (GOP)…

by Linda Beale GOP two-step approach problematic Discussion continued apace yesterday about the “supercommittee” and the idea of agreeing to agree someday on some revenue increases while going ahead with…

Mother Jones points us to a Stimson Center study, titled What We Bought: Defense Procurement From FY01 to FY10 (PDF), (via Reader Supported News). From the report Procurement funding grew…

…the table by Patty Murray, chair of the Senate Budget Committee, for the Democrats, and by Paul Ryan, republican chair of the similar committee in the House, as the template…

…bank regulators called before her Senate committee, “about the last few times you’ve taken the biggest financial institutions on Wall Street to trial. Anybody?” The FCC representative, Tom Curry, notes…

…would address the income shortfall to varying degrees. Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a report in July 2012, “The Retirement…

…and instant growth.” See Editorial, Mitt Romney Needs a Working Calculator, New York Times (Oct. 15, 2012). [The Joint Committee on Taxation] asked its staff what would happen if Congress…