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Better Know a District

By | 01.23.09 | 1:21 pm

Speaking of House seats … the math geek readers of Swing State Project have released their latest round of data on congressional districts, calculating the respective vote tallies for President Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain in almost every district in California, Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania. An analysis of More…

Obama Scraps Plan for Business Tax Credit in Stimulus

By | 01.13.09 | 9:47 am

Faced with rising criticism from economists and Democrats alike, President-elect Barack Obama yesterday scrapped his plan to include $150 billion in business tax credits in his emerging economic stimulus proposal.

The provision would have given businesses a $3,000 tax credit or every new employee they hired, and every employee More…

?Happy Days for House Democrats?

By | 11.07.08 | 12:45 am

For the past two years, the House of Representatives has been busy as bees getting not much done. Under Democratic leaders who took the helm in 2007, the party has had great success moving the policy priorities that propelled it into power in 2006 — only to see most die More…