In the face of the environmental disaster facing his Gulf coast state, why would Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi agitate for an immediate end to a six-month moratorium on new deep water oil drilling? Why don’t you ask Senator Wicker himself? He’s available to talk to at the finest upscale Washington, DC dining establishments: establishments [...]
What is the Stanton Park Group? It could be a bunch of hippies who came out of a great music scene in Denver and have taken the country by storm with their powerful new blend of acoustic guitar and xylophone. It could be the dentists’ office around the corner from that marble slab ice cream [...]
Who wins and how much when Senator Arlen Specter switches his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat later this week? Arlen Specter wins big. Within the Republican Party, Neanderthal Pat Toomey was liable to beat Specter in the 2010 Republican Senatorial primary because Pennsylvania Republicans are Neanderthals… and then lose big time in the fall [...]
A few days ago, I wrote a post describing the frequency distribution of bill cosponsorship in the Senate and House of Representatives for the 111th Congress so far. More particularly, I considered how many bills had gained how many cosponsors, then listed the five most cosponsored bills in each house of Congress. Today, let’s consider [...]
Irregular Times reports today on the sponsorship (offering a bill for consideration) and cosponsorship (promoting a bill by signing one’s name) activity by members of the United States Senate in the years 2007-2008, offering figures for 98 Senators that range from a low of 22 bill (co)sponsorships to a high of 469 bill (co)sponsorships. See [...]
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