Posts Tagged ‘Hurting’

Immigration Reform Isn’t Hurting Marco Rubio’s Bottom Line

Though championing immigration reform is widely viewed as a political gamble for Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, it hasn’t stalled his rapidly churning fundraising machine. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Sequestration Hurting Your Budget? It Didn’t Stop a 13-Day Overseas Congressional Trip

Roughly 16 Senate Finance Committee staffers are wrapping up a whirlwind 13-day trip to Vietnam, Australia, and New Zealand, even as federal agencies have been forced by sequestration to limit employee travel and participation in out-of-town conferences. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

How Michele Bachmann is Hurting the GOP Reboot

The Week: “Attention, GOP: Your rebranding attempts are being undercut by a segment of your party getting big headlines and lots of airtime — a segment symbolized by the Minnesota quote-machine, Rep. Michele Bachmann.” Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post

Republican Party admits Rush and Fox are hurting it

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Filibusters Hurting Federal Courts

Jeffrey Toobin: “Judicial appointments represent one of the great missed opportunities of the Obama Presidency. In his first term, especially in the first two years, Obama himself bore much of the blame for this. When Democrats controlled sixty Senate seats, Obama was slow to nominate lower-court judges, and his moment of greatest leverage passed. But, [...]

Frank Hurting His Chances for Appointment?

Massachusetts Democrats and people close to Gov. Deval Patrick (D) tell National Journal that Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) “has undercut his own explicit hopes for the seat likely to be vacated if Sen. John Kerry is confirmed as secretary of State. Frank’s very public lobbying for the job–he disclosed his aspirations on Morning Joe–make Patrick, [...]

Americans Say Politics is Hurting Country

A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds that 77% of Americans say the way politics works in Washington is causing serious harm to the country. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post

U.S. should negotiate fiscal cliff without hurting growth-Germany

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The United States should seek to manage planned spending cuts and tax hikes in such a way that the so-called fiscal cliff does not damage global growth, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Monday. “Everything must be done…to negotiate the fiscal cliff in such a way that it does not [...]