Supreme Court term will include cases highlighting extent of federal power
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 2nd, 2011 4:34 am by HL
Supreme Court term will include cases highlighting extent of federal power
The Supreme Court convenes Monday for what could be the most significant term of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s six-year tenure, with an agenda that both reflects the nation’s political landscape and offers the potential to reshape it.
The dominant theme is the one that has divided the country and fueled the debate between tea party Republicans and President Obama since the 2010 election: the extent of the federal government’s power.
O’Malley, Dems aim to use Md. as ‘weapon’ in redistricting fight for U.S. House
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s redistricting commission will release a plan in coming days to attempt to harness the Washington area’s surging — and largely Democratic — population growth over the last decade to help Democrats retake control of the House of Representatives.
How far O’Malley (D) is willing to go to achieve that goal is now the question.
State Dept. reeling from budget cuts
The State Department is still reeling from deep cuts made by Senate and House appropriations panels to the Obama administration’s budget requests for next year, with some officials warning of national security risks.
Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary of state in its Bureau of Political Military Affairs, told a meeting last week of the Center for New American Security that the hefty cuts will compromise national security. He noted that the 2012 funding bill for State Department and foreign operations was cut 8 percent by the full Senate Appropriations Committee and a whopping 18 percent by the House Appropriations State and Foreign Operations subcommittee.
Herman Cain talks tax reform with ‘9-9-9’ proposal
If you know one thing about Herman Cain, it’s probably that he used to be the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza.
If you know two things, then you have likely heard of something called “9-9-9.”
That is the Republican businessman’s catchy shorthand for his tax reform plan. It has become the centerpiece of his upstart campaign for president, which got a boost recently when he surprised the political establishment by winning a closely-watched Republican straw poll in Florida.
Peter Terpeluk Jr., Republican fundraiser and former ambassador, dies at 63
Peter Terpeluk Jr., a powerhouse fundraiser for the Republican Party who served as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg and as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, died Aug. 23 at his home in Chevy Chase. He was 63 and had a heart attack, his wife said.
After working as an official with the Small Business Administration in the early 1980s, Mr. Terpeluk formed a consulting business in Washington in 1986. He quickly became a leading fundraiser for Republican candidates and was a finance co-chairman in the presidential campaigns of George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.