T he Washington Post’s “Capitol Briefing” breathlessly announces: A health-care reform bill drafted by the Senate Finance Committee would expand health coverage to nearly 30 million Americans who currently lack insurance and would meet President Obama’s goal of reducing the federal budget deficit by 2019, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. The bill would cost $829 billion over the next decade, but would more than offset that cost by slicing hundreds of billions fr

I'm interrupting my career. It's not like I want my new career in politics. But I'm willing to interrupt it the same way that somebody interrupted their career and joined World War II and went off to fight the Nazis. I don't think that I'm that heroic, and I don't think I'm risking as much as a soldier. But it's the same principle. -- Peter Schiff (R), in an interview with the Washington Post , on his U.S. Senate campaign in Connecticut.

Washington Post Democrats unveil bill mandating limits on greenhouse gases Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats introduced legislation Wednesday establishing mandatory, nationwide limits on greenhouse gases, hoping to spur political momentum on the issue before world leaders meet in Copenhagen in December to try to forge a new ... Democrats get ambitious on climate change Houston Chronicle EPA, Senate Take Aim at Greenhouse Gases Washington Post Senate Democrats seek tougher limits

From the Washington Post, another article about how Eric Holder is doing exactly what Obama promised at his Howard University address, which I covered in VDARE in 2008: more Jobs for the Boys in the Civil Rights departmentJustice Dept. to Address Backlog of Civil Rights Complaints By Krissah ThompsonThere is the ongoing review of the death of a man beaten by four white teenagers in a park in Shenandoah, Pa. The kids, all high school football players, shouted, “Go back to Mexico,” before one punc

Washington Post Politics Digest: Massachusetts Takes Step Toward Replacing Kennedy Washington Post An elevated white-blood-cell count is keeping Sen. Robert Byrd (DW.Va.) in a hospital, his office said. (By Susan Walsh -- Associated Press) The Massachusetts Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow Gov. Deval L. Patrick (D) to name an ... Kennedy's US Senate Fill-In May Be Chosen as Early as Today Bloomberg Bill OK'd to replace Kennedy in Senate Seattle Times An interim successor to Ken