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Michael Colliss
Michael Colliss
 The United States Congress returns to Washington today for what may be the most crowded agenda faced by any lame duck session in history; it will certainly be among the most contentious. As millions of Americans who lost their job through no fault of their own wonder if there will be an unemployment extension and a Tier 5 passed during the belief lame duck session, it appears that the uncertainty as to how the U.S. Congress will address these concerns is anything but resolved. → Read More  44 comments - (Comments are closed)  Many long time observers of the U.S. Congress are beginning to see signs the agenda for the United States Congress during the lame duck session is beginning to take form. Before the lame duck session, the Democratic leadership had anticipated as many as 20 significant legislative actions during the lame duck. Now, recovering from their midterm losses, which President Obama called “a shellacking,” the Democratic leadership of both the House and the Senate are becoming resigned to a significantly scaled back list of hoped for legislation during the lame duck. → Read More 48 comments - (Comments are closed)  As regular readers of my articles know, my main focus is an attempt to provide a political context to what I continue to believe to be the number one problem facing our economy, the enormous unemployment of people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own and the seemingly never ending political struggle to move the U.S. Congress toward unemployment extension and Tier 5. In this article I would like to offer a more personal commentary on where we are – consider this a editorial piece if you will. → Read More 49 comments - (Comments are closed)  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is probably one of the most divisive figures in the American political scene. Many of the Republicans who won their races for Congress made the speaker the focus of their campaign, urging their supporters to help “Fire Pelosi” by electing them. In fact, many Democratic candidates during the midterm specifically asked her not to campaign for them or endorse them because of the anti-Pelosi sentiment. She became the face of the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives and as such has become the focal point of anger of many Democrats who are still recovering from the greatest midterm loss of seats since 1950 when Harry Truman was President. → Read More 2 comments - (Comments are closed)  In all the votes on unemployment extension and Tier 5 in 2010 it has been in the U.S. Senate where the biggest battles have taken place to get this commonsense legislation passed into law. For example, the last time the Senate dealt with this issue, it took 7 weeks to get enough votes to overcome Republican filibusters. While it is virtually certain that there will be an effort to get some form of unemployment legislation passed during the relatively short “lame duck” session set to begin on November 15, exactly what that legislation will be remains very unclear. → Read More 74 comments - (Comments are closed)  With millions of American waiting to learn about the fate of both current federal extension and a potential Tier 5, attention will now be focusing on the agenda of both the Senate and the House of Representatives during the lame duck session, scheduled to begin on November 15. This article is intended to offer some guidance on the schedule and agenda when the U.S. Congress returns. The United States Senate The Senate is schedule to formerly convene for legislative business at 2:00 PM on Monday, November 15. No votes are scheduled to be taken on any matter until sometime on Wednesday, November 17. As of November 5, the following bills are the only ones which appear on the Senate calendar: S.3815, the Promoting National Gas and Electric Vehicles Act of 2010; S.3772, The Paycheck Fairness Act; and S.510, The FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act. These three bills were scheduled for a vote on the floor of the Senate but the Senate adjourned before an actual vote was taken. Because of procedural issues, these bills need to be resolved before any new action can begin. → Read More 41 comments - (Comments are closed)  The U.S. Department of Labor released its monthly report on the employment situation in the United States on November 5 and as expected, it showed no reduction in the national unemployment rate that remained at the same level of 9.6% where it has been for several months. The United States economy added → Read More 56 comments - (Comments are closed)  Senator Patty Murray, (D Washington) was declared the winner of the Senate election in Washington State late Thursday night, narrowly defeating Republican Dino Rossi who has conceded. Because of 90% of the voters of Washington state use mail in ballots, there was a delay as state election officials counted the ballots. The → Read More Comments are closed |
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