Ed Martin in DC today
WASHINGTON — Nobody has sent Ed Martin to Washington yet, but here he was this afternoon declaring to a roomful of GOP funders and heavyweights how he plans to return as a new congressman from St. Louis.
Martin,…
Rep. Emerson
WASHINGTON — The vast majority of the House cast party-line votes when members voted 240-179 a short time ago to rebuke Rep. Joe Wilson for the South Carolina Republican’s outburst during President Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress last week.
Among the 7…
Rep. Emerson
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration took power with the promise of curtailing deals with those wicked K-Street lobbyists.
But now an earlier behind-closed-doors deal with drug companies in the effort to promote health care reform is drawing heat.
WASHINGTON — What’s the biggest issue confronting Congress in the months ahead?
No, not the economy. It’s health care, the most vexing issue for many families and a cost to Americans that rose last year at twice the rate of inflation. Again.
On…
Jo Ann Emerson
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jo Ann Emerson recalls the top-down approach the last time a president tried to reform the health-care system, back in 1993 when then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s blundering created battle lines that remain to this day.
The response from many in…
