herb kohl

The push is on to dilute the climate change bills moving through Congress, and it’s not coming only from conservatives. Mother Jones’ Kate Sheppard reports today that 14 Senate Democrats are urging their leadership to amend the proposal to grant more free polluting permits to the coal-burning utilities that emit the most greenhouse gases. In [...]

As the nation’s largest ticket seller and largest concert promoter hope to merge before year’s end, more and more members of Congress are growing skeptical over the proposed deal.
Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s anti-trust panel, said Monday that a merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation would create a ticketing behemoth [...]

Why is it that so many judicial confirmation hearings are dominated by questions from senators that they know the nominee can’t really answer?
Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), just spent much of his questioning time asking Judge Sonia Sotomayor whether she a) believes there is a right to privacy, as the Supreme court has ruled there is; [...]