I didn't even realize this was a milestone that had not yet been reached, but apparently it is:Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is recommending to President Obama that he nominate for the first time ever an openly gay male to serve on the federal bench, according to the senator’s office. The senator has ...

From today's WSJ: Senator Prodded Fed to Aid Ailing Bank From Home State.  And from last Tuesday: Wealthy Face Tax Increase. For this I read the paper?  At least America's Finest New Source offers breaking news: Supreme Court Allows Corporations To Run For Political Office.  My favorite: "This ...

In a Press Conference on February 3, 2010 Sen. John McCain announced his intention to introduce a new bill that would amend DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health Reform Act 1994) requiring manufacturers of Dietary Supplements to register and disclose all ingredients. In the Press conference McCain was qu ...

People are policy and while much attention has been focused on the profusion of buffoons and poltroons Obama has installed at the cabinet and sub-cabinet level positions in his administration, the real work of radically changing the character of our government has been entrusted to anonymous apparat ...

Greatest Deliberative Body: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) announced he was lifting his holds on more than 70 pending nominations, having successfully gotten the White House's attention concerning some Alabama projects he'd like to save, the Washington Post reports. In other...

The Times implies something’s different about Sen. McCain in this article about his reelection race this year. Mr. McCain now sharply criticizes the bailout bill he voted for, pivoted from his earlier position that the Guantánamo Bay detention facility should be closed, offered only a muted re ...

In a February 3 Wall Street Journal op-ed, I argued that the current law forbidding homosexual military members to discuss their sexual orientation ought to remain in place. I based my contention on the importance of non-sexual bonding as the glue of unit cohesion, which is an important contributor ...

Source: Lexology, February 8, 2010. Rockefeller to move cybersecurity billPatton Boggs LLP"Citing the cyber-attacks on Google originating from China, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller, (D-WV), said that he intends to focus more keenly on cybersecurity and that his panel ...

Tiffany Washington had just finished classes at University of Louisville in late April 2008 when she returned to her townhouse apartment near campus to find an urgent message from her father telling her to call him. The union that represents workers at the JBS pork plant on Story Avenue plan ...

Well, everybody’s turning - Congress is at 18/78 approval/disapproval, which makes you wonder about the four percent who can’t make up their minds - but the Democrats have gone from 45% to 30% in a month, which … well, is this not a pretty graph? Particularly that 15 point drop ...