Congress:
In a few other posts about the changing Congressional landscape for climate in wake of the November midterms, I identified Rep. John Dingell (MI), the incoming chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, as a major potential roadblock to...
Posted on December 20, 2006 7:03 PM • 8 Comments
I have a post up on Prometheus about a new letter from Lieberman and Collins (RM and Chair of Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs) to DHS head Mike Chertoff on not being ready for the next catastrophe....
Posted on November 21, 2006 3:13 PM • 0 Comments
Seen first on Mr. Fleck's blog. Senator John Warner (R-VA) is challenging Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) for the Ranking Member spot on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee when the 110th Congress convenes in January. But Mr. Inhofe is not...
Posted on November 20, 2006 1:56 PM • 5 Comments
Charlie Rangel is the incoming chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is the one of the most important committees in the House (you'll read some articles saying that it is the most important, but it competes for...
Posted on November 20, 2006 1:05 PM • 1 Comments
For science policy, the biggest issue that Congress will deal with for the next year to year and a half is climate change. There will be other issues (stem cells and the ESA might come up), but climate change is...
Read on »
Posted on November 14, 2006 11:00 AM • 8 Comments
In the past couple of days I mentioned Rep. Richard Pombo a couple of times as my race to watch (because my local House seat is safely held by the great Mark Udall). Pombo held the 11th California District seat...
Posted on November 8, 2006 8:12 AM • 3 Comments
I can hear your little minds whirling. "If the Democrats take back Congress, why, why, why that means that science will be respected again!" Right. Here are some things to look for in the 110th Session. One big "problem" (if...
Read on »
Posted on November 6, 2006 12:58 PM • 7 Comments
I'm not Libertarian. Or Dem, or Rep. Regular readers know that. Despite an intense interest in inside politics, I'm firmly Decline to State (or "Unaffiliated" here in Colorado). Where the Lib comes in, though, is in the exceedingly strong personal...
Read on »
Posted on October 3, 2006 1:26 PM • 7 Comments
Caught on Lehrer's blog, GM VP Bob Lutz tells the WSJ today that, "the best thing the (U.S.) government can do is to raise the gas tax by 10 or 15 cents a year until it reaches European levels." This...
Read on »
Posted on October 2, 2006 3:12 PM • 11 Comments
For all you fellow inside politics wonks, a must-read out the NY Times today: Of Party Dues and Deadbeats on Capitol Hill. Good inside look into how the parties find soft money despite campaign finance "reform." This was essentially my...
Posted on September 30, 2006 5:19 PM • 1 Comments
Way back when (ok, last November) I handicapped the Dems' chances of taking back the Senate and House this November. I thought there no chance that the D's would retake the House and only a small chance that the D's...
Read on »
Posted on September 22, 2006 3:02 PM • 0 Comments
Blogging colleague John Fleck sent me a House Science Committee press release which announces that today the House passed H.R. 5450. (Hey you! Yea you, in the back of the class! Wake up! This is important!) H.R. 5450 is the...
Read on »
Posted on September 20, 2006 3:26 PM • 1 Comments
Over on geology.about.com (helpful tip: if you're ever teaching a lecture on geology, go there first), Andrew Alden scoops me in announcing that Mark Myers has been confirmed by the Senate as the next head of the USGS. Back in...
Posted on September 17, 2006 12:06 PM • 0 Comments
Via Ars Technica via Slashdot, a group led by Kevin Quinn of Harvard is prying into the Congressional Record with some cool word-mining software. Although I haven't delved very far into its 61 pages as yet, the article looks very...
Posted on August 4, 2006 1:19 PM • 2 Comments
Two days ago I snuck a post out about the WRDA bill getting to the Senate floor calendar. (Today five posts that I wrote last night are coming out, then it's back to hibernation.) I warned you insiders to read...
Read on »
Posted on July 21, 2006 12:46 PM • 1 Comments
i'm still away so two quick notes and then i'm going back underground 1- Check out Sean D's new atmospheric science blog, Head In A Cloud. Technical earth sciences blogs are far too few and far between so Sean's blog...
Posted on July 15, 2006 4:52 PM • 0 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
