Now we’ll hear about it for the next eight months
The House has passed the Senate’s $940 billion health reform bill on a 219-212 vote, and the news releases are flying hot and heavy, as they surely will continue to do on this issue from now through...
View ArticleEshoo floats TARP payback for local governments
Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, today introduced a “Restitution for Local Government Act of 2010” to help counties and other public entities get back some of the more than $1.7 billion they lost when...
View ArticleMcNerney voted for the war supplemental
Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, was the only Bay Area House member to vote in favor of the $33 billion Afghanistan and Iraq war supplemental spending bill yesterday. The bill passed on a 308-114...
View ArticleEshoo’s TV ad volume bill is signed into law
The next time you need not reach for the remote during a commercial break, thank Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto. President Barack Obama today signed into law S.2847, the Commercial Advertising Loudness...
View ArticleSenate OKs water safety bill with East Bay roots
The U.S. Senate yesterday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that strengthens and clarifies standards to protect people from toxic lead in drinking water by reducing the allowable lead content in...
View ArticleHouse passes GOP budget rollback resolution
The House today voted 256-165 to pass H.Res. 38, a resolution directing committees to cut non-security discretionary spending to 2008 levels or lower, “beginning with a down payment in the form of a...
View ArticleMiller leads complaint about foreclosure aid
Rep. George Miller, the House Education and the Workforce Committee’s ranking Democrat, led 18 House Democrats in complaining to the Obama Administration yesterday that not enough has been done to help...
View ArticleYour state and Bay Area House-race roundup
All in all, it was a dismal night for Republicans in California House races. Of the 11 California House races deemed competitive by the renowned Cook Political Report, Democrats won seven outright and...
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