Rep. Snyder bows out
Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.) has announced he will not seek reelection, 24 hours after a poll showed him losing his 2010 race by 17 points
Read more: The Hill
Senate Can Pass Health With 51 Votes, Van Hollen Says
By Jonathan D. Salant
Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — Even if Democrats lose the special election to pick a new Massachusetts senator Tuesday, Congress may still pass health-care overhaul through a process called reconciliation, a top House Democrat said.
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“Even before Massachusetts and that race was on the radar screen, we prepared for the process of using reconciliation,” Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said.
Read more: Bloomberg
Obama Gives Former Food Lobbyist Michael Taylor a Second Chance at the FDA
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But here’s where that claim runs up against the past. While Taylor was the FDA’s policy chief in the early 1990s, the agency approved genetically modified crops and bovine growth hormone for cows, new technologies that both benefited Monsanto enormously. And FDA rules stated that both GM foods and bovine growth hormone would not need labeling to let consumers know when it was appearing in their food
Read more: BNET
‘Poster Child’ for Obama hypocrisy on green jobs?
By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
01/15/10 7:43 AM EST
In a city full of conflicts of interest, this one ranks near the top of the “Most Blatant Ever.” Robin Roy is a senior executive of Serious Materials, a California-based windows maker that was virtually unknown within its industry until last year when President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden began praising it as, in the latter’s words, the “poster child of green industry.”
Read more at the Washington Examiner
Fred Barnes: Could the House kill Obamacare?
Obamacare is in trouble in the House. Passage of whatever compromise health care bill is agreed on by White House, Senate and House negotiators had been taken for granted in the House — until now.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., finds herself in a precarious position. She cannot afford to lose a single Democratic defector
Read more at the Washington Examiner
In reversal, federal regulators now propose to limit oil and gas commodities
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 15, 2010
With the price of gas at the pump at its highest point in well over a year, federal regulators moved Thursday to prevent excessive speculation by financial traders from driving the cost of oil even higher. The effort to adopt new limits on the trading of oil and other energy commodities is a sharp reversal after years when regulators left those markets alone
Read more: Washington Post
Nelson Asks Senate to Withdraw Nebraska Medicaid Deal
Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska is asking Senate leaders to eliminate a controversial Medicaid deal for his state in the health care bill.
The moderate Democrat, who provided the crucial 60th vote for the Senate health care bill, has been criticized because Nebraska was exempted paying any cost of a proposed expansion of Medicaid
Read more: AP
CNN Poll: Big dip in enthusiasm
Washington (CNN) – Democrats face a growing enthusiasm gap in this year’s battle for Congress, according to a new national poll.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday also indicates Americans are split in their choice for Congress in November’s midterm elections, with Republicans making gains at the Democrats’ expense
Read more: CNN
Easily Hacked Voting Systems to be Used in MA Special Election for the U.S. Senate
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The Diebold electronic voting machines to be used in more than 90% of the state’s districts are the same demonstrably unreliable ballot scanning systems that were seen being hacked in the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Hacking Democracy. The rest of the machines used in the Bay State are made by Sequoia Voting System, Inc., the same manufacturer whose machines were “misconfigured,” to switch votes in Erie County, NY’s Nov. 3, 2009 election and which have failed, and even been hacked, in a number of cases around the country
Read more: Governeur Times
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