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So, we received our census form in the mail yesterday. I filled it out and dropped it in the mail box this morning. Quick and easy, although I’m a little sad about the demise of the long form (killing my odd hope that the Jedi census phenomenon would come to the U.S.), and annoyed that [...] 
Seen in the Sacramento Bee: Arriving at Harv’s Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," says Harv’s owner, Aaron Zeff. The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff’s on-site manager showed the amount of [...] 
Via tweets from @eddie_smith and @PrezMike2010 (SOA President Mike McLaughlin), I came across a blog post at Newsweek highlighting a difference between the House and Senate health reform bills which could be contributing to the unwillingness of House Dems to just vote for the Senate bill. It’s a factor which hasn’t received much attention in [...] 
I feel disappointed in myself for not having caught this news earlier, but it seems that one casualty of the Senate’s backlog may be flood insurance. According to Insurance Journal, the NFIP is not accepting new business since an omnibus bill which includes yet another temporary reauthorization is stuck in queue with the Senate. The IJ [...]
I came across this link to a summary of the Wyden-Gregg tax simplification bill (which I touched upon briefly earlier this week), which I heard described the exemptions and credits they’re proposing. There’s one item in that summary, towards the end, buried in a long list of other changes which kind of jumped off the page [...]
So, yesterday I listened to much of the health care summit in Blair House. The comments I tweeted during the summit are aggregated in this post, but I thought I would share a few post-mortem thoughts. From a naïve, idealistic point of view, you would think that getting a group of responsible leaders together to discuss [...] 
If I’ve set this post up correctly, the embedded video below should relay the broadcast of today’s health care summit meeting. Have fun (or, more likely, have a nice nap)! JOIN THE LIVE CHAT
You know, with this being an election year, I wouldn’t have expected much substantial reform to emerge out of Congress, other than perhaps a quick bill late in the year punting a long-term fix for AMT off a few more years. So I was surprised to see this article in the Wall Street Journal: Two senators Tuesday [...] 
Yes, it’s almost old news at this point, but I have a day job that requires my attention from time to time. As promised, the White House released a consolidated health care reform proposal on whitehouse.gov. If you’re interested, there’s a quite a bit to read at www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting/proposal. A quick scan through the propaganda suggests [...] 
This weekend, the New York Times has carried two op-ed columns which merit reading by anyone interested in federal politics. Senator Bayh (D-IN) wrote a column discussing his reasons for choosing not to run for re-election, while former Senator Chafee (R/I-RI) reflected on his own decision to retire from the Senate and to run for [...] |
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