June 30, 2009

Democrats have been keeping a seat warm on the prestigious Senate Judiciary Committee for Al Franken, in the hope that the drawn-out legal dispute over the Minnesota Senate race would end up in his favor. Now that it has, one...

Democratic Sen.-elect Al Franken's is speaking to reporters and supporters outside his Minneapolis home about 90 minutes after Republican Norm Coleman conceded the race. Franken, who could be seated as soon as next week, will give the Democrats 60 reliable...

The Minnesota Supreme Court has just issued a decision that paves the way for Democrat Al Franken to fill the state's long-vacant Senate seat, the Associated Press reports. Update at 2:18 p.m. ET: The court's decision is here. Update at...

Republican Norm Coleman is addressing supporters in St. Paul following a Minnesota Supreme Court decision today that found Democrat Al Franken has won the election. The USA TODAY story is here. "I join all Minnesotans in congratulating our newest United...

It is said that politics makes strange bedfellows. Well, consider this: Wal-Mart and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) sent President Obama a letter today saying they support a "sensible and equitable" mandate that employers provide health insurance to their workers....

West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd was released from the hospital today after battling two infections for more than a month, his office has announced. He is now recuperating at home and undergoing physical therapy, according to the statement. “I am...

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and President Obama have at least one thing in common: A distaste for college football's Bowl Championship Series. The Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel, of which Hatch is the top GOP member, will hold a hearing...

On the same day the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) began running television ads on taxing health benefits (see previous blog item here) a spokesman for the union said today they will take at least some of them...

For a week, Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina did not answer the ever-present Twitter question: What are you doing? His Twitter account went dark on June 22 at 8:58 a.m., and he didn't answer the question until Monday with...

June 29, 2009

Much of the TV advertising on health care so far has focused on the controversial public, or government-run insurance program that Democrats say would compete with private insurers and Republicans say would drive them out of business. One labor union...

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