The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
WASHINGTON -- The White House plans to name a top aide to Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia to lead a federal agency that regulates the auto industry.
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Photograph of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, embracing Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., as Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., left, looks on by Jose Luis Magana/ Last night, the Senate voted to debate health care legislation after Thanksgiving, in a 60-39 vote along party lines. Two weeks after the House passed its health care legislation , Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said,...
California Greening (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
We know that one of the major sources of the greenhouse gasses that are driving climate change is the coal the we burn to generate electricity. If nothing is done to change that, the all of the other stuff we might do would not be enough to reign in our warming climate... making 650 ppm CO2 much more likely than 350. One would think that it might be easy for Democrats to pass some sort of climate change...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller says current federal energy legislation doesn't do enough to protect West Virginia's coal industry.
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Big news! The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has just announced its witness list. It's an interesting list that raises hope and questions, and I've uncovered some facts about the witnesses that you can see after the jump. But meanwhile, down in West Virginia, longtime Senator Jay Rockefeller IV has been a quiet friend to the LGBT community. Perhaps too quiet. He has cosponsored...
Wake Up America (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Via The Politico : Senate Finance Committee members have been notified that the committee's health reform bill was filed today. S. 1796 weighs in at 1,502 pages, according to a Senate Republican leadership source............. You can read the full 1502 pages (PDF) here. Even Democratic politicians acknowledge the plan, as is, will "whack" middle income families with taxes. But Democratic...
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Roll Call (sub req'd) is reporting that 30 Senators sent a letter to Harry Reid demanding that the final bill include a robust, Medicare-like, Public Option. The following is part of the letter - I'll update the post when I can find a copy of the whole letter: We have spent the better part of this year fighting for health reform that would provide insurance access and continuity to every American...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia is upset that a health care bill poised for approval by the Finance Committee would turn nearly a half-trillion dollars over to insurance companies, whose profits he says are "out of sight."
A Plain Blog About Politics (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
I want to call it a postmortem, but since they aren't getting around to voting for a while as they wait for the gears to grind over at CBO, I can't quite call it that. Speaking of the vote, Ezra Klein makes an excellent point and does good reporting this morning. The reporting is that none of the Democrats is a swing vote in the sense that they would vote no to kill the bill, but that four of them...
BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
So, here's where we are on health care. The U.S. Senate Finance Committee has finished its markup work on the Baucus health care bill. They'll take a vote on Tuesday. According to the Washington Post, Senators Ron Wyden and Jay Rockefeller are considering voting against the Baucus bill: If all 10 Republicans on the panel vote no, two Democratic defections would be enough to send Baucus and the Obama...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Ethanol Tax Credit Is Overkill, Government Watchdog Finds - Environmental Capital - WSJ As if the ethanol industry weren’t busy enough staying afloat while defending itself from environmental criticism, Congressional watchdogs have presented it with one additional challenge. The Government Accountability Office said Friday that turning corn into fuel is costing U.S. taxpayers an unnecessary amount...
Faultline USA (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
By Barbara Sowell This October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, or didn’t you know? A better title would have been: National Cyber Insecurity Awareness Month. We should all be insecure since the U.S. has just relinquished its control of the internet (see below)! This is the time when all internet junkies should ponder the very real possibility of waking up one day to NO internet! A...
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Last week Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) introduced a cap and trade bill. Their version of the national energy tax offers a goal of cutting carbon emissions down by 20 percent by 2020--cute numbers. But that cuteness, if it becomes law, will stifle economic growth and inhibit job growth. Let's take a look at some cap and trade news. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), who opposes cap...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Timothy McNulty | October 1, 2009 Dan Malloy's P-G story today on a Senate climate control bill goes over the cool reception from Casey, Specter and Rockefeller, but the WashPost's WhoRunsGov blog notes some surprisingly positive notes from the king of coal country, Robert Byrd: The big battle ahead for the new climate change bill proposed by John Kerry , which is being hailed by environmentalists,...
Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Senate Democrats are finally getting around to looking at getting climate change legislation through the Senate ahead of December's Copenhagen summit for addressing the problem globally. The Senate effort is led by John Kerry and Barbara Boxer . Supporters of Senate climate change legislation introduced Wednesday rallied outside the Capitol to promote their bill as a lifeline for the planet and a way...
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