by Bill Scher | Jan 31, 2007 | Blog
When it comes to health care, will the new Congress, unlike the previous conservative Congress, side with the public interest over the special interest? The pharmaceutical giants are worried the answer is yes. So they're hooking up with Democratic lobbyists in hopes...
by Bill Scher | Jan 31, 2007 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid held a conference call with bloggers earlier this afternoon. I asked him where the minimum wage bill will go after this week's expected approval of a version including business tax breaks. Yesterday's NY Times said that the Senate...
by Bill Scher | Jan 31, 2007 | Blog
Bill Scher blogs for Campaign for America's Future. Today's NY Times reports that Bush issued a new executive order intended to undermine our civil service: ...each [government] agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to...
by Bill Scher | Jan 30, 2007 | Blog
Today's NY Times reports that Bush issued a new executive order intended to undermine our civil service: ...each [government] agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing...
by Bill Scher | Jan 30, 2007 | Blog
Congressional committee appointments are certainly inside baseball (come to think of it, the term "inside baseball" is inside baseball) but Speaker Pelosi's move to create a Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming is a big deal. You might think that...
by Bill Scher | Jan 30, 2007 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Today, the NY Times checks in on the minimum wage battle, and we may be seeing a little movement towards a push for a clean bill without business tax giveaways. The piece notes that after the Senate passes its bill with such tax favors, two different procedural things...
