After four years of Democratic Party control over both houses of Congress, the American voting public opted for a change last Tuesday. As result of elections around the country, Republicans will control the United States House of Representatives next year, and the Democratic majority in the United States Senate has been narrowed. An analysis of this election [...]
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Things learned in the debate over health care reform
With some form of health care reform poised to be enacted following the passage of a trillion-dollar, pork-filled boondoggle in the U.S. Senate on Christmas Eve, reflection on the course of this policy debate and its broader implication for the trajectory of the Obama administration seem warranted. Whatever results in the coming months on the issue of [...]