Sunday, 17 April 2011

The Caucus: Sunday Breakfast Menu

Now that Congress has passed the budget, it's time to talk about the national debt.

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The Caucus: Tea Party Groups Celebrate Tax Day with Big Name Republicans

Most Americans dread Tax Day. But Republican presidential candidates? They wouldn't miss it for the world.

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Spill changes little in the Gulf oil industry

Despite a ten-month stoppage after Gulf oil spill disaster, oil industry works under no new regulations | Complete coverage

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Man Threatened To Behead Neighbor's Barking Dog With Saw: Cops

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GOP Senators at Odds on Libya

Competing groups of Republican senators have introduced resolutions aiming either to boost or curtail the U.S. role in Libya, a sign of how divided Congress is on the military operations there.

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Energy: A Tale of Two Narratives

Gary Jason, American Thinker

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Budget pact barely touches current-year deficit

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday�about President Barack Obama's speech on the deficit and his plan for future spending.A new budget estimate released Wednesday shows that the spending bill negotiated between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner would produce less than 1 percent of the $38 billion in promised savings by the end of this budget year.


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Gay marriage defeat leaves couples crestfallen

Ken Goodman's fondest wish was to return to Silver Spring with the man he has been with for 15 years and get married in front of his childhood friends and his parents.

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Saturday, 16 April 2011

Despite Sudden Action, Feds Have Long Known of Sleepy Air Traffic Controllers

There is growing evidence that the FAA has known about the threat of sleeping air traffic controllers for decades.


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Watch: Huntsman Letters: Obama 'Remarkable' Leader

ABC News' Rick Klein and Zach Wolf talk politics on "Top Line."

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House Republicans vote to defund health care and Planned Parenthood

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Before taking off for their two-week holiday recess, House Republicans have passed resolutions to defund the Affordable Care Act (240-185) and Planned Parenthood (240-184).

And now it's on to the Senate where both resolutions will be defeated later today.

Meanwhile, 100 days have passed and Republicans still haven't done anything about job creation.

Update: And the House resolution to defund ACA is defeated in the Senate on a vote of 47-53.

Update II: And just as quickly, the House resolution to defund Planned Parenthood fails, 42-58.

Both measures needed 60 votes to pass.


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Redistricting: New congressional maps pass in AR & LA

After redistricting negotiations between various parties seemed to come to a halt in recent days in both Arkansas and Louisiana, the logjams have finally broken. We're now seeing two of the first new maps to get passed into law (or very close thereto) in the wake of new data from the 2010 census. First up is Arkansas:

The state Senate gave final approval to a congressional redistricting plan today and sent the bill to the governor for his signature.

Gov. Mike Beebe has said he will sign the bill, which divides five counties, including Sebastian and Jefferson, between districts but keeps Fayetteville, Fort Smith and Russellville in the 3rd Congressional District and keeps Pine Bluff in the 4th District. ...

Under SB 972 and HB 1836, Jefferson County would be split between the 4th and 1st districts, Crawford, Newton and Sebastian counties between the 3rd and 4th districts, and Searcy County between the 3rd and 1st districts.

Also, Madison, Franklin and Johnson counties would move to from the 3rd to the 4th District, Yell County would move from the 2nd to the 4th and Lincoln, Desha and Chicot counties would move from the 4th to the 1st.

Here's the new map, which eliminates the so-called "Fayetteville Finger", which would have put Dem-leaning Fayetteville in the 4th CD instead of the 3rd:

ARDem at Blue Arkansas thinks this is a sucky map, and blames Dems for caving. (Read the whole post for the full background.) Considering we comfortably control the trifecta here, it sounds like we did a very lousy job.

And as for Louisiana:

The House on Wednesday voted 63-35 to approve a congressional redistricting plan, sending it to Gov. Bobby Jindal who is expected to sign it.

About 90 minutes earlier, the Senate voted 25-13 for the measure. ...

The redistricting vote came on House Bill 6 by Rep. Erich Ponti, R-Baton Rouge, after three hours of debate and most amendments being rejected. Ponti asked the House to approve the Senate-made changes to his bill when the House took it up shortly before 2 p.m. ...

Ponti's bill keeps in place two north Louisiana-based congressional districts that run from the Arkansas border into Acadiana and the Florida parishes on the east and almost to Lake Charles on the west.

Population breakdowns of the new districts, as well as detail insets of densely populated areas like New Orleans, are in this file (PDF). The overview map and demographic breakdowns are below:

Democrats had hoped to create a second district that would be favorably disposed to electing an African-American, but that didn't happen with this map - though conceivably something like that could be imposed by litigation under the Voting Rights Act.


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Watch: Dan Coats: Taxes Are On The Table

Sen. Dan Coats R-Ind., says, even oil and gas subsidies are "up for discussion."

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