Politico reports, “Congress has been chipping away at sequestration with carve-outs for meat inspectors, air traffic controllers and troops' tuition assistance. But for many defense contractors, the dull impact of the across-the-board cuts has led to a kind of passive resignation about their effects. Besides the public campaign to restore...
“When Max Baucus announced last week that he wasn't running for reelection, he said he would instead devote his efforts to passing tax reform. But is the Senate Finance Committee chairman's retirement announcement a game-changer for tax reform? … Optimists see Baucus’s desire for a lasting legislative legacy as a...
“President Obama carried the 18-to-29-year-old voting bloc by 34 points in 2008 and by 23 points last year. But a national survey of millennial voters conducted by Harvard’s Institute of Politics suggests that this emerging generation might not be as locked into the Democratic camp as conventional wisdom suggests, and...
Companies and trade associations have taken note…the President and his administration watch ESPN. Politico reports, “It’s not just targeting Obama, but doing it in a way that is both interesting and will get the attention of the audience, but not so unusual that it will put the client in a...
President Obama nominated longtime fundraiser and hotel magnate Penny Pritzker as commerce secretary. If confirmed, Pritzker, the daughter of the co-founder of the Hyatt hotel chain and a successful investor in her own right, would become the richest secretary in Obama’s Cabinet and potentially the richest Cabinet secretary in U.S....
Rep. Ed Markey on Tuesday won the Democratic Party’s nomination for Senate in Massachusetts in a special-election primary,” National Journal reports. Markey, 66, who has served in the House since 1976, now faces Republican Gabriel Gomez in the June 25 general election. The Boston Globe reports that Markey, “enters the...
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