Bill Nelson is now running on his website a live feed of the BP oil gusher on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. You can clearly see that there’s a much greater volume of oil coming out of that gusher than what BP has claimed, and that the pipe siphoning off oil, which BP [...]

Tom Campbell is seen as a moderate Republican, although he’s a Friedmanite conservative on economic issues. But his moderate pose has made him the most acceptable to the general electorate in California among the three candidates in the June GOP Senate primary. Campbell posts the best numbers against Barbara Boxer, basically in a dead heat, [...]

With the agreement on resolution authority between Dodd and Shelby complete, we’ve actually moved to votes on amendments for Wall Street reform. The Boxer amendment, essentially a resolution stating no taxpayer money go to bail out financial firms, passed 96-1. The Shelby-Dodd agreement, in the form of an amendment, to ditch the $50 billion liquidation [...]

So I didn’t get near the Obama fundraiser in LA last night, though I certainly put in a good effort. I seem to have gotten on the road too late and toward Exposition Park much too late to do anything about it. So I missed a very perturbed Barack Obama endure heckling from the LGBT [...]

Barbara Boxer addressed Democratic delegates by taking jabs at her potential Republican opponents, casting the coming Senate election as a stark ideological choice, and slamming the economic credentials of her rivals. Boxer, giving a preview of her strategy for the fall, alluded to but didn’t mention by name the three candidates for Senate on the [...]

Sen. Barbara Boxer, speaking at a press conference in advance of her speech at the California Democratic Party convention, said that she does not support efforts from industrial state Democratic Senators to pre-empt state and local laws that regulate carbon emissions. This week, ten Democratic Senators who are key to passing a clean energy bill [...]

I’m here in the press area at the California Democratic Party convention at the LA Convention Center downtown. Speakers today include Nancy Pelosi, as well as the top of the California ticket in November: Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown. The mood of the conventioneers is a little somnambulent, IMO. You have to understand that California [...]

The signers to Michael Bennet’s letter to pass the public option through reconciliation have continued to roll in. Before I get to that, I want to respond to a couple comments in the last thread on this about why I’m monitoring this action. There are two questions being asked – one about whether Senators would [...]

Harry Reid slimmed down the jobs bill because he didn’t want it loaded up like a Christmas tree with items unrelated to job creation. He took out $31 billion in tax extenders, some safety-net extensions which he promised in a different bill, and a variety of other pieces. What he really did was nix the [...]

The Senate jobs bill is far too small to make an impact, but as Tom Carper (D-DE) just said on MSNBC, a skinny bill at the start will have the opportunity to expand through amendments. And one Democrat is lining up his amendment already. It may not create many jobs, but it would certainly give [...]

Jim Webb and Barbara Boxer have teamed up to introduce a bill that would tax the big bonuses paid out by Wall Street companies. However, it would only apply to firms that took $5 billion or more from the TARP. The Taxpayer Fairness Act would apply only to Wall Street firms and banks that received [...]