The primaries represent the party activists rather than the entire electorate but one thing is clear, the anti-establishment, outside the beltway sentiment, made an impact on Tuesdays results.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said changes must be made to the Minerals Management Service, the agency in charge of regulating offshore oil drilling. “We need to clean up that house,” Salazar told the Senate Energy Committee Tuesday. Salazar said he plans to “craft a new agency” because of ethical misconduct and regulatory failures. Salazar emphasized [...]
Political primary season is upon us. Results reveal that incumbents are having a difficult time this election year, regardless of political party. Most of the attention has been placed on the Tea Party-like challenges to establishment Republicans, but some Democrats are facing challenges from the left. Example one: Representative Jane Harman of Southern California has [...]
Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) unveiled their long anticipated climate change proposal. They changed the name and are referring to it as the American Power Act. The draft is said to reduce greenhouse gases by 80 percent by the year 2050. Meanwhile, it calls for an expansion of coal, offshore oil drilling, [...]
The Senate unanimously voted to audit the Federal Reserve. For the first time, the public can peek into the Federal Reserve’s books. But the measure fails to go as far as some would have liked. After the amendment began receiving wide sweeping support and was guaranteed to pass concerned leadership swept in and cut a [...]
