Outside the Beltway

The Republican Study Committee has come up with some significant budget cuts.

After a fairly bad 2010, Barack Obama is starting off 2011 in a very good position.

The newest WaPo/ABC News poll numbers.

In a move that surprises nobody, the House voted today to repeal last year’s health care reform law. Now it goes to the Senate where it will die.

Bipartisan seating at the State Of The Union is a pointless act of political theater. Then again, so is the State Of The Union Address itself.

The debate over heated political rhetoric has now led one Pennsylvania Congressman to suggest that some speech should be banned. This must stop now.

Thankfully, attacks on members of Congress are a rarity.

Gabriellie Giffords, a three-term Arizona Congresswoman, was shot and killed today along with six others outside a campaign event in Tuscon.

A tragedy this afternoon in Tuscon

Some members of Congress sleep in their offices in lieu of renting residences in DC. Fiscally responsible or kinda odd?

I don’t like it when things my allies say are misquoted and attacked; it’s no better when my allies do it.

The filibuster reform package that Senate Democrats unveiled yesterday has much to recommend to it. Unfortunately, it’s probably doomed.

Anti-Immigrant groups are beginning their assault on the 14th Amendment, but don’t expect it to go anywhere.

David Kurtz reports, “House Republicans are about to use “deem and pass” — a.k.a., a self-executing rule — which you may recall was the same legislative mechanism they decried last year during the health care reform debate as a threat to all that is right and good about America.”

Freshman Members of Congress are threatening to block a vote to raise the debt ceiling that Congress will have to take by this Spring. They’d be irresponsible if they did so.

The next round in the health care reform wars is about to start.

The reaction to President Obama’s recent recess appointments provide us with yet another example of bipartisan hypocrisy.