As the United States Congress goes into recess, we thought we would take a look back on what has been a grueling legislative year thus far. The year began with closing debates on health care reform, and the March 20th passage of the historic Affordable Care Act, with barely a...
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Category Archives: Politics
BP: Dead or Alive
Yesterday June 16, 2010, the Obama administration announced that BP had agreed to its request for a $20 billion escrow account to be setup to aid victims of the oil spill. The fund that's set up will be run by Kenneth Feinberg the lawyer and mediator who ran the fund...
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Houston Elections
Tomorrow is election day for the Houston City elections runoff. It is important that we all come out and vote. I would would ask that you vote for my good friends Annise Parker for Mayor and Alma Lara for HISD Trustee #1. It only takes a few minutes to vote...
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Presidents Healthcare Reform Speech More Popular Than #1 Rated TV Show’s
President Obama’s healthcare reform speech was a huge hit, according to Nielsen TV Audience Measurement. In his second address to a joint session of Congress, across ten broadcast and cable networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, BET, CNBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Univision and Telemundo) last Wednesday night speech aired to over...
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Flip Flopping and the Politics of Indecision… How Elections are Lost in 21st Century Texas
In the race to lead the Lone Star State, the choices are getting hairier and hairier…literally. Picture one 2010 scenario: The perfectly-coiffed Rick Perry, longest-serving Governor in Texas history, squeaks by to win the Republican Primary to face-off against Democratic multi-millionaire hair exec, Farouk Shami (think BioSilk and the CHI...
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