Thursday, September 10, 2026

Tag: Senate

Treasury refuses to close private jet tax loophole senators call a...

The formula values a flight from New York to Washington at $236, against a fair market cost of up to $5,112

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advances ‘America the Beautiful Act’...

The bill will fund infrastructure repairs including crumbling park roads, bridges, failing water and wastewater systems, visitor centers, and employee housing.

May 1 deadline could trigger constitutional clash over Trump’s Iran war

As the War Powers Resolution clock expires, a legal confrontation is emerging over whether President Donald Trump can continue military operations in Iran without congressional approval.

Senate GOP blocks effort to overturn $10.3 billion corporate tax break...

Resolution targeting Trump administration guidance on corporate minimum tax fails 51-47 as advocates warn of expanded loopholes.

America at a crossroads. What if MAGA Trump bloodlust sets the...

Losing the House (and Senate) will induce a 2020 replay but this time desperate Chicken Little will implode when repeating the same pathetic, “rigged” trickery again.

Amid Trump’s proposed pipeline safety rollbacks, senator questions regulators’ industry ties

Industry connections among Transportation Department regulators showed how they are seeking to loosen oil and gas pipeline safety regulations and Sen. Maria Cantwell is demanding answers.

House vote on defense bill pushes annual military spending past $1...

House advances $893 billion defense policy as culture war riders and audit penalties collide with pay raises, troop increases, and a looming Senate clash.

Trump’s top tax official built career helping billionaires dodge taxes

Ken Kies, a longtime lobbyist for major corporations and the ultra-wealthy, now leads the Treasury’s tax policy office under Trump—just as Republicans push for new tax cuts benefiting the richest Americans.

Senator tackled and cuffed at DHS press event in LA as...

Sen. Alex Padilla was violently removed and handcuffed while attempting to question DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, drawing widespread condemnation and fueling fears of growing authoritarianism.

Where do we go from here?

Someone said I really should I replied I surely would If I only thought I could So I left things as they stood.

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A private jet on the tarmac. Photo: Bidgee/CC BY-SA 3.0 au

Treasury refuses to close private jet tax loophole senators call a giveaway to billionaires

The formula values a flight from New York to Washington at $236, against a fair market cost of up to $5,112
An aerial view of Boulder City and Lake Mead, Nevada. Photo: Doc Searls/CC BY 2.0

Federal panel halts first AI data center approved on US public land

The board found regulators treated an 88.5-acre data center as barely different from the solar farm it was supposed to replace.
The California State Capitol in Sacramento, where SEIU Local 1000 has accused Governor Newsom's administration of bad-faith bargaining. Photo: Steven Pavlov, via Wikimedia Commons

California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration

More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
Encore Boston Harbor casino in Everett, Massachusetts. Photo: Parkerjh / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Casino workers strike at Encore Boston Harbor after contract talks stall

More than 1,300 Teamsters and UNITE HERE members walked out after voting 97 percent to authorize the strike
The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Photo: U.S. Navy

25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.