Not Bills, Procedure
1/6/11: Mr. Smith May Not Be Coming To Washington, After All
12/10/10: Look, Children, It’s A Thing Spoke Of As Myth (An Actual Filibuster, Or Not)
12/9/10: They Make Their Voice Vote Heard
8/11/10: Senate Malfunction, What’s Your Dysfunction?
8/2/10: The Saucer Remains Cool
3/2/10: Yester-House, Yester-Senate, Yesterday
2/24/10: A Children’s Primer To The Various Points Of The Reconciliation Debate
12/21/09: Mr. Yglesias Goes To Washington Or The Filibuster Follies
Not Bills, People
Confirmations and such…
3/29/10: Playing Kickball And Swinging On The Swings
In Committee
5/4/10: Eli Lake Gets The Scoop On The Soft
House Bills
What’s stirring in the House.
Waxman-Markey
8/14/09: Cap And Trade: 2009-2009?
6/29/09: Do The Watusi-Markey One More Time
6/19/09: Get Dem Old Waxman-Markey Blues Again
6/4/09: We Can Talk Environment, We Can Talk Economics, We Can Talk International Relations
Other Bills
2/25/11: It Is 1995 Again And We Are Wearing Doc Martens, Listening To Everclear
2/9/11: Surprise, Surprise, Surprise…
1/25/11: 2.5 Is The Number, Baby!
12/16/10: Congress After Dark, Where No One Can See What’s Going On
12/2/10: Gallus Gallus Domesticus Excrement
7/26/10: They Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Them
6/17/10: Campaign Finance Reform Doesn’t Kill People, People Kill People
3/17/10: Broadband Across America
12/11/09: Gordon Gekko Does Not Approve!
11/24/09: The Central Bank Blues, In C-Note Minor
10/13/09: Fran Drescher Is Loud And She Sits On A Big, Juicy Hamburger
10/10/09: Congresscritters Are Busy Critters, With All The Bill Writing And Amending And Such
8/3/09: Mr. Conservative And The Aircraft Carrier
7/28/09: Cash Rules Everything Around Me
7/15/09: A Thousand Points Of Light On Health Care, All Put Into One Post
7/13/09: We’re Banning Daryl Hannah Now?
5/29/09: The Sausage On The Peanut Butter
4/28/09: It’s Everywhere You Want To Be
Senate Bills
Kerry-Lieberman
5/12/10: How Did John Kerry Find Time To Write A Bill With All The Blogging He’s Been Doing?
Financial Reform
7/19/10: Timmy And Lizzy, Having A Tizzy
7/15/10: FinReg Soon The Be More Than Just A Wonky Blogger’s Twitter Tag
7/11/10: Turn Your Prayer Books To Section 342, Where We Sing Of Offices Of Inclusion
6/30/10: Your Daily FinReg Centerfold
6/26/10: Straight Outta Conference
6/25/10: This Macaca Moment, So Different And So New
5/24/10: A Bill Either Too Big Or Not Big Enough Doesn’t Fail
5/19/10: Greatest Deliberative Body Or Lord Of The Flies?
5/13/10: Tough On Tuesday, Weak On Wednesday
5/10/10: FinReg Brings Us Back To Waterloo, Yet Again
4/28/10: All Night Long? No, That’s Way Past Their Bedtimes
4/21/10: Blanche Depended On The Kindness Of Grassley
4/17/10: Bailouts Now, Bailouts Never, Bailouts Later, Bailouts Forever
3/18/10: Dodd’s The Word, Part II
3/2/10: Chris Dodd And The Piranhas
Other Bills
2/25/11: It Is 1995 Again And We Are Wearing Doc Martens, Listening To Everclear
12/22/10: Not Exactly A Moment Of Zen
12/20/10: DADT Dead, And Only Seventeen Years Old
12/16/10: Congress After Dark, Where No One Can See What’s Going On
7/26/10: They Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Them
7/22/10: They’ve Got No Energy For It
6/24/10: Frank Capra And The Austerity Pimps: Doo Wop Group From The Chambers Of The Senate
6/22/10: Here’s The Red Button That Nukes The Commies… Here’s The Switch That Kills The Internets
6/10/10: Senate Amendments Failing Do Not Make Make For Interesting Blog Post Titles
5/4/10: I Always Feel Like Somebody’s IDing Me
4/26/10: Liberals Bloggers Let Loose About Lindsey
3/23/10: The Future Of Bipartisan Legislation Is Cloudy, With A Slight Chance Of Immigration Reform
2/23/10: What Is The Sound Of Thousands Of Conservatives De-Friending Scott Brown On Facebook?
10/10/09: Congresscritters Are Busy Critters, With All The Bill Writing And Amending And Such
7/19/09: EFCA Gets A Shave And A Haircut, Two Bits
6/16/09: When The CBO Scores, The Whole World Stops Turning
Earmarks
11/30/10: Congress, Can You Hear Me? Can You Feel Me Near You?
3/16/10: Lend Me Your Ears, And I’ll Sing You A Song
State Laws/Local Laws
3/10/11: Updates On The Cheeseheads
3/7/11: Cheddar Revolution: Moldy Yet?
2/22/11: The Continued News Out Of Madison…
2/17/11: The Word From Madison, Wisconsin
2/16/11: Talkin’ Bout South Dakota House Bill 1171
7/30/10: What A Bunch Of College Dropouts!
7/15/10: Big Brother And The Hamster Company
General Posts
Looking at how the sausage gets made, one blog post at a time.
9/29/09: My Lucky Strike Tastes Of Freedom And Day-Old Coffee Grinds
9/24/09: They Say Read It. Read It Good.
6/16/09: It May Be A Weird Institution, But It’s Our Weird Institution
6/12/09: As Ramona Quimby Would Write, “No Smo King”
5/11/09: A Blog Post For Your Health
Health Care
Will it pass? Or is this the early 90s all over again?
1/19/11: Today We’re Gonna Party Like It’s 2009
3/17/10: He Was Against It Before He Was For It
3/15/10: Health Care In The Night, Exchanging Glances
3/12/10: George Clinton Has Spoken And Someone’s Been Hit With The Bop Gun
3/9/10: The Count Where Everybody Counts
3/4/10: I’ll Make Your Brother An Offer He Can’t Refuse
3/2/10: Either They Gather Their Peeps Or They’ll Have Egg On Their Face
2/25/10: Bob Costas Will Come On Later And Give Us The Day’s Medal Count
2/24/10: A Children’s Primer To The Various Points Of The Reconciliation Debate
2/22/10: And Now For Something New: This Really Is Obamacare
2/8/10: On The 25th Day Of February, My Political Opponents Gave To Me…
1/29/10: Rahm Speaks To The Times
1/27/10: Everyone’s Running Around Like A Health Care Bill With Its Head Cut Off
1/23/10: Choose Your Own Health Care Conundrum Solution
1/21/10: The Phrase “At This Time” Is Parsed, And Parsed, And Parsed
1/18/10: Snatching Something Out Of The Jaws Of Something
1/14/10: Brand New Cadillac Will Get The Excise Tax
1/8/10: Five Out Of Five Bloggers Recommend Disclosure
1/5/10: CSPAN’s Rockin’ Health Care Negotiations With Ryan Seacrest
1/4/10: And Financial Regulation Will Pass Via A Game Of Foosball
12/29/09: The Death Panels, The CBO, And Other Greatest Hits Of 2009
12/24/09: I Saw A Health Care Bill Come Sailing In, On Christmas Eve In the Morning
12/19/09: The “Haw, Haws” Have It
12/16/09: You Made Me Promises Promises
12/15/09: It’s Dead, Jim, Part III
12/14/09: Sometimes, They Just Don’t Play Nicely At The Washington Post
12/14/09: Are You Surprised? Is Anyone Surprised?
12/11/09: It’s Like This And Like That And Like This And Uh
12/8/09: It’s Dead, Jim, Part II
11/30/09: Some New Original CBO Programming
11/23/09: The Laughter, The Tears, The Sausage-Making
11/22/09: Saturday Night Turned Out All Right For Fighting
11/19/09: Quiet Down, Harry Reid Has Something To Say
11/15/09: They Copied Their Homework From Wikipedia, They Did
11/12/09: Forget A Little Health Care And You Land In Jail
11/11/09: Ask Your Doctor If This Sweetheart Deal Is Right For You
11/7/09: Rumors On The Internets, At This Point
11/6/09: And Now It Is The GOP’s Turn
10/29/09: Is Health Care In The House? Is Health Care In The House?
10/27/09: Joe Says It Ain’t So
10/25/09: Don’t Follow Leaders, Watch The Parkin’ Meters
10/21/09: Today’s Health Care Debate Was Brought To You By The Letter E
10/20/09: The Summer Is Over And There Are Polls In October
10/13/09: Can You Taste It? It’s So Close, Can You Taste It?
10/12/09: Isn’t All This Fighting Bad For One’s Health?
10/7/09: The Biscuit Is In The Basket
10/5/09: What’s The Health Care News Across The Nation, We Have Got The Information
9/30/09: Oh, The Health Care Posts We’ve Had And Haven’t Had And Wish We Could Do
9/29/09: Explosions! Excitement! Boom! Boom!
9/26/09: There’s Always Been A Great Lack Of “Yo Momma” References In The Senate
9/16/09: Andrew Sullivan And Megan McArdle Have A Conversation About Medicare Part D
9/16/09: Mad Max Beyond Public Option, Part II
9/7/09: Mad Max Beyond Public Option
9/3/09: They Eat Fingers, Don’t They?
9/3/09: On Top Of Mount Olympia, All Covered With Snowe
8/31/09: Playing Poker With The Gang, Sending Your Ante By Air-Gram
8/26/09: Ruth Marcus Chats With Chuck Grassley
8/22/09: And Now, Your Moment Of Death Panel Zen
8/20/09: The Banana Split Reconciles And Goes Nuclear, Eating Grandma Along The Way
8/18/09: Doesn’t Quite Have That Cesar Chavez Feel To It
8/13/09: The Numbers Are Coming In
8/12/09: Hawking Is Alive And Other British Stories
8/11/09: Having A Rational Discussion About Rationing Is So Hard These Days
8/10/09: Liberté! Égalité! Confrérie! Aucune option publique! Justice pour Kenneth Gladney!
8/4/09: Grazin’ In The Grass Is A Gas, Baby, Can You Dig It?
7/23/09: Nobody Likes Him, Everybody Hates Him, I Guess He’ll Go Eat Some Worms
7/23/09: Break Out The Jujubes: We Have Multiple Blogger Fighting Here
7/15/09: A Thousand Points Of Light On Health Care, All Put Into One Post
7/7/09: Does One Missing Finger Know What The Other Fingers Are Doing?
7/1/09: Wal-Mart Surprises Some, But Not Others
6/30/09: We’ve Looked At Health Care Reform From All Sides Now
6/24/09: The Public Option, My Friend, Is Blowing In The Wind
6/16/09: Most Americans Get Their News… You Know The Rest
6/16/09: When The CBO Scores, The Whole World Stops Turning
6/11/09: That’s A “No” Vote, I Presume
6/5/09: Letters. We Get Your Letters.
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