Some very just desserts on this Columbus Day morning: Peter Diamond, a lauded economist at MIT, won the Nobel Prize, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. The three economists won for their examination of “markets with search frictions.” In Diamond’s case, he focused on labor markets More…
After a sleepy confirmation process drowned out by debates over financial regulation, unemployment insurance, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Senate this afternoon confirmed Elena Kagan as the next Supreme Court justice, by a vote of 63 to 37.
[Law1] Five Senate More…
Last week, we showed you a discussion of Elana Kagan’s upcoming confirmation battle in the Senate. Yesterday, top conservatives who work on Supreme Court confirmation fights weighed in on her nomination. Video after the jump:
From the moment President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have been vocal about their intention to repeal the bill, despite the fact that repeal is virtually impossible — odds are extraordinarily slim that Republicans can assemble the 67 Senate votes needed to repeal health care reform in the More…
Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, will leave the Obama administration in July, making him the first cabinet-level official to resign. According to The New York Times, Orszag never planned to stay more than two years, and his resignation puts him in More…
Five legal experts discussed Elana Kagan’s prospects for confirmation to the Supreme Court today at the Aspen Institute, and Abbey Brandon of TWI’s video team was on hand. The experts — Rachel Brand, a Justice Department official under George W. Bush; Lanny Davis, a former special counsel to President Clinton; More…
Political reporters in Washington are preparing for a late night at work sifting through the National Archives’ just-released trove of memos and correspondence written by Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. The document release — available for public consumption here — is estimated to encompass about 46,500 pages, dating More…
The Senate just voted 77-23 to end debate and move to a final vote on the confirmation of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke for a second term. The final confirmation vote is now underway.
A big statement from the senior senator from Arizona, who famously floundered at the start of the financial crisis in September 2008 by — among other things — demanding the resignation of then-SEC Chairman Chris Cox.
Our country is still facing an economic crisis and while I appreciate the service
At a breakfast with reporters this morning, California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina responded to a question about whether she would filibuster Obama nominees by saying that “elections have consequences,” but that she’d look at the nominees’ qualifications.
“I did not closely follow the Sonia Sotomayor nomination,” said Fiorina. “I was More…
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