Now Available: Text of the Debt Ceiling Bill

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Monday August 01, 2011 · 12:16 AM PDT

2011/08/01 · 00:16

Well, the text of the Budget Control Act of 2011, better known as the debt ceiling bill, has finally been posted. It's 2 AM here in Iowa and I'm way too tired to analyze this right now. But a few observations:

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 10:17 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 22:17

As you've probably heard by now, the stopgap spending measure [PDF] passed tonight authorizes about $2 billion in immediate spending cuts. I thought we should see what actually got cut tonight.

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Saturday February 19, 2011 · 2:02 AM PST

2011/02/19 · 02:02

About twenty minutes ago, the House passed H.R. 1, which contains all of the spending cuts that have been discussed this week. The vote was 235 yeas to 189 nays. (It'll be available here when the Clerk gets around to posting it.) While three Republicans---John Campbell, Jeff Flake, and Walter Jones---voted against it, for once Democrats were able to mount a united front. No Democrat voted in the affirmative.

The bill now goes to the Senate where it is sure to get a major makeover.

(Apologies for the brevity of this diary but I've been sick all week and am really tired. Source for the identity of the Republican "no" votes is here.)

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CA-36: Rep. Jane Harman to resign

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Monday February 07, 2011 · 7:47 AM PST

2011/02/07 · 07:47

Kossacks will remember Marcy Winograd's primary challenge to Blue Dog Jane Harman last year, which sadly fell short. Well, it looks like we won't have Harman to primary challenge anymore.

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Tuesday January 25, 2011 · 9:01 PM PST

2011/01/25 · 21:01

Cross-posted from my website

Tomorrow, the House will consider H.R. 359, a bill to remove public funding of Presidential campaigns and party conventions. For the full text of the bill, see here. For a list of co-sponsors, see here.

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Wednesday December 15, 2010 · 4:24 PM PST

2010/12/15 · 16:24

There have been a number of rumors about how the House intends to pass the Obama/McConnell tax cut bill, many involving interesting procedural tricks and various counter-proposals.

It turns out most of those rumors were wrong. Tomorrow, the House will vote on an alternative extension of the estate tax, and if that fails, there will just be a straight-up vote on the Senate language.

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Wednesday December 08, 2010 · 6:45 PM PST

2010/12/08 · 18:45

Today the House passed what is effectively a full-year continuing resolution, which mostly continues spending at current levels through the end of September 2011. It also contained a Constitutionally-compliant version of the food safety bill and some other extensions to expiring laws. But like all must-pass bills, it was not devoid of sneaky provisions.

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Thursday December 02, 2010 · 12:38 PM PST

2010/12/02 · 12:38

With a bit of procedural maneuvering, the House has passed S. 3307, the Child Nutrition bill, by a vote of 264 - 157. 4 Democrats voted against, and 17 Republicans voted in favor.

As discussed yesterday, House Republicans held up passage of the bill by offering a motion to recommit to require background checks for child care workers. While this amendment would not be controversial, adopting it would send the bill back to the Senate, where it would meet the Republican legislative blockade and probably die.

Democrats struck back by offering the background check provision as a separate bill (H.R. 6469), which passed 416-3. They then defeated the motion to recommit 200 - 221 to reach a clean vote on the bill.

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 now goes to President Obama for his signature.

Update [2010-12-2 16:16:26 by Goobergunch]: The Clerk has posted the vote totals, so all of the links are now live.

Republican Legislative Reform: Superfluous At Best

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Monday September 20, 2010 · 10:56 AM PDT

2010/09/20 · 10:56

From Politico today:

House Republicans plan to unveil their governing agenda this Thursday, rolling out party’s priorities just a few weeks before voters hit the polls in the best environment for Republicans since they won both chambers of Congress in 1994.

[snipped]

The specifics of the agenda have been held tightly by Republicans, but they have already committed to proposing a constitutional test for each bill considered in the House, and they will push a "read the bill" provision that makes final versions of legislation available for the public and lawmakers to read before the House votes.

What is this Constitutional test for legislation? Well, Politico gave us a little more detail last week:

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Thursday June 19, 2008 · 8:56 PM PDT

2008/06/19 · 20:56

I haven't done these for a while, but I think it's time that I started them back up, given the current actions of our Democratic "leadership".

Tomorrow the House will consider the FISA Capitulation bill, as well as a rule for the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act. Details on the flip....

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Tuesday January 04, 2005 · 5:16 AM PST

2005/01/04 · 05:16

Today in Congress, Tuesday 4 January 2005

109th Congress, 1st Session
Senate Legislative Day 1
House Legislative Day 1

Today the new Congress convenes, significantly nuttier then the last one. More below the fold.... Read More

PA-6: Inquirer endorses Lois Murphy

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Saturday October 23, 2004 · 9:35 AM PDT

2004/10/23 · 09:35

For a couple weeks I've been both awaiting and slightly dreading the Philadelphia Inquirer's endorsement in the Sixth District of Pennsylvania, my home district. I've been supporting (and occasionally working on the campaign of) Lois Murphy, the Democrat in my district. However, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the largest newspaper in the Philly area, endorsed Gerlach over Dan Wofford in 2002 and, given newspapers' tendencies to endorse incumbents in local races, I was expecting the Inquirer to do the same in 2004.

When I got to the Inquirer editorial page today, however, I was pleasantly suprised to read their editorial on the election, headlined "6th Congressional District: Murphy would be a 'deficit hawk'". Read More

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