For now, FAA employees will go back to work Monday This agreement does not resolve the important differences that still remain. via Over (For Now) | Talking Points Memo. 13 rural airports will lose funding.
Andrew Sullivan gives props to Obama and friends for plotting a path to ending the DADT policy for the American military: Like 2009′s removal of the HIV ban, which was as painstakingly slow but thereby much more entrenched, this process took time. Without the Pentagon study, it wouldn’t have passed. Without Obama keeping Lieberman inside [...]
Sens. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and Dick Durbin of Illinois have been working intensely on a jobs bill for more than a month, talking with relevant committee leaders and other members and dispatching aides to dozens of other meetings in the hopes of crafting a bill that could get through the Senate quickly. And [...]