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On Taming The Financial Beast, Or, Sausage Gets Made, You Get To Watch

June 22, 2010 By fake-consultant

Two cows are standing in a field. One says to the other, "What do you think about this mad cow disease?" "What do I care?" says the other, "I'm a helicopter." --From "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar", Thomas Cathcart and Daniel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barney-frank, congress, economics, financial-regulation, house, legislation, massachusetts, sausage-making, senate

Deval on Left Ahead! Tuesday

January 30, 2010 By massmarrier

Gov. Deval Patrick joins our ragged trio on Left Ahead! Tuesday 2/2/10 for our weekly podcast. We'll cram as much Q&A as we can in a half hour, starting at 1 p.m. Eastern.Catch the live stream here. After the show, it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deval-patrick, funding, goals, governor, left-ahead, legislation, massachusetts, podcast, politics, progressive

A disagreement with Mike Capuano

December 7, 2009 By cos

We got those touchscreen machines all over the country after the 2000 election made a national spectacle of the problems with punch card voting machines, but Massachusetts had its statewide spectacle of the same thing four years earlier, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: capuano, congress, diebold, election-reform, legislation, ma-sen, massachusetts, mike-capuano, rush-holt, senate, touchscreen-voting, voting-machines

Here is that pesky healthcare bill! With Poll !!

November 10, 2009 By AmberPaw

The bill itself  Generally it is a good idea to read first, and pontificate later.  Mind, anything with 1018 pages is hiding a lot of stuff, and probably a legislative bit of healthcare vivisection. Myself, I have a growing list … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gender-bias, healthcare, legislation, reform, vivisection

The Return of the Line Item Veto

March 5, 2009 By Mr. Lynne

Ed Brayton alerts us: This is an interesting development. Fox News reports: A bipartisan group is giving the line-item veto another go at it, albeit with some key tweaks, more than a decade after the Supreme Court struck down the procedure … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: congressional-powers, constitution, john-mccain, legislation, presidential-powers, russ-feingold, separation-of-powers

Massachusetts Autism Insurance Reform Bill

January 28, 2009 By debbie-b

Autism Insurance Reform Bill (HB 0067_001) has been submitted by Representative Barbara A. L'Italien (D-42) and Senator Frederick Berry (D-7).    The bill will require private healthcare policies to provide coverage of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: autism, legislation, representative-litalien, senator-berry

Jen Benson, Coolest Freshmen State Legislator

January 24, 2009 By lynne

Benson has introduced a special education reform bill that works towards identifying administrative efficiencies and cost savings for schools districts, while providing more consistency for special education students with high needs. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: environment, legislation, special-education, state

Dissenter on the Farm Bill

May 19, 2008 By cos

Last week the House passed the farm bill 318-106, a veto-proof majority.  President Bush had threatened to veto, but many Republicans joined almost all Democrats in voting yes. I noticed that only two Democrats within a 1000 mile drive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: congress, farm-bill, legislation, michael-capuano

Massachusetts

January 28, 2008 By HeartlandDem

We have some serious work ahead in the next few months for the state legislature and the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts to grapple with and it's called budgets. The real work of government is centered around this grueling phenomenon. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget, governor, legislation

Legislation on corporal punishment – protection for children or invasion of privacy ?

December 14, 2007 By AmberPaw

As a practical matter, DSS already traumatizes families where children are not at risk. To have every "swat" a reportable "offense" and essentially overturn the case of Cobble v. Commissioner would be very bad.  Anyway, Mike's Op Ed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: burden-of-proof, corporal-punishment, dss, legislation, privacy

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