Since the Supreme Court said that expanding Medicaid programs was up to states, state officials have been hoping that they could have the option of pursuing partial expansions of their programs on the federal dime. The Health and Human Services Department dashed those hopes on Monday, saying that the 2010...
Think again. It’s true that the phrase has been political poison in Washington ever since a 2010 climate-change bill was torpedoed in Congress. But on Jan. 1, California — the largest economy in the nation and the eighth-largest in the world — will start enforcing a robust cap-and-trade law that’s...
A rare bipartisan, bicameral coalition of lawmakers came together this week to push legislation that would make renewable-energy projects eligible for a public-private financing mechanism currently available to fossil-fuel developers. Sens. Christopher Coons, D-DE, and Jerry Moran, R-KS., and Reps. Peter Welch, D-VT, and Ted Poe, R-TX, are pushing a...
The Democratic Steering Committee released its committee assignments on Wednesday, and Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-OH, and Michael Bennet, D-CO, earned coveted Finance Committee openings. More than a few senators-elect also grabbed spots that will help them back home. Freshman Sen.-elect Heidi Heitkamp, for example, earned a spot on Agriculture that...
Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, delivered his farewell address on the Senate floor on Wednesday, after 22 years in the Senate and 14 in the House. He touched on veterans' issues and rights for Native Hawaiians before weighing in with some advice for solving the fiscal cliff: "If we paddle together...
On Thursday Herbert H. Kohl, the son of immigrants, the businessman, the sports fan, the NBA team owner, and the philanthropist, gave his farewell speech to the place he has worked for 24 years. In a town filled with folks who love microphones and cameras, Kohl stood out for being...
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