Reid’s Gamble Dislodges Bill

By Emily Pierce and Erin P. Billings
Roll Call Staff

Oct. 2, 2008, 12 a.m.

Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) hasty decision this week to force a Senate vote on a stalled Wall Street rescue package might have single-handedly renewed confidence in his leadership and written a new epilogue to an otherwise unremarkable and highly partisan 110th Congress.

The Costs of the Cap-and-Trade Bill

Stier: Detecting a Bad Breast Cancer Bill

July 1, 11:28 a.m.

Who could blame hundreds of Members of Congress for joining with a colleague and breast cancer survivor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in co-sponsoring legislation aimed at promoting breast cancer education? The problem, according to leading breast cancer scientists and advocacy groups, is the bill would do more harm than good. Read Full Article