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Hkerryere’s a principles-of-economics question: Suppose the U.S. gross domestic product (national income) is currently $14 trillion. Then suppose the U.S. raised all tariff, income tax, and sales tax rates to 100 percent. How much money would the government collect? If you realized that nobody would generate taxable income under such a regime and answered “zero,” congratulations.

America needs a clean, safe, and sustainable energy source. Nuclear power could be part of the solution -- with the right set of free-market reforms. Congress, the nuclear industry, and many Americans agree that reform of U.S. nuclear policies is necessary, but cannot agree on what those reforms should look like. The nuclear provision in the Senate's new Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act is a nice nod to nuclear power, but leaves the waters muddied.

As the Senate Armed Services Committee readies classified hearings for Wednesday this week on the technical verifiability of the new START treaty, the right wing of the Republican Party has come out swinging.

Proposed legislation would offer financial incentives to increase the population density of communities in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy use. However, the available evidence, which is admittedly limited, indicates that such “smart growth” policies are misguided, producing minimal results at great expense and disruption. Such policies would threaten to disrupt the already wobbly housing market, make housing less affordable, reduce housing quality, and substantially l...

We now know that the cia has been able to meet with the wives, but only a short period, they werent giving up very much information. can you share anything more about what you have been told is -- what were learning from this cache of materials? >> i cant share anything more than has been confirmed by leon panetta, the director of the cia, or the president, or the secretary of defense or the secretary of state, but clearly this is a real find. this is why the president was right in designating t...

Where he was held. >> well, the president may say that theyre trying to work things out. the american public have figured things out and figured it out very completely. they dont think pakistan was unknowing in this operation. and the opinion about pakistan is overwhelmingly negative. you have two-thirds of the american public saying they have negative feelings about pakistan. so to the degree that pakistan is looking to get the support of the american public, they have a lot of work to do. not ...

Lindsey graham to kick them around anymore, senators kerry and lieberman are in the market for a new republican negotiate orp. as such theyre advertising theyre willing to scale back the bill even more. if that happens, i wonder if theyll get a vote in the end from that republican. some republican appears to be a making a sincere effort to vote on key legislation with friends from across the aisle. said republican senator convinces friends to make tons of concessions on the key legislation. for ...

Around anymore, senators kerry and lieberman are in the market for a new republican negotiate orp. as such theyre advertising theyre willing to scale back the bill even more. if that happens, i wonder if theyll get a vote in the end from that republican. some republican appears to be a making a sincere effort to vote on key legislation with friends from across the aisle. said republican senator convinces friends to make tons of concessions on the key legislation. for whatever reason, those conce...

She comes from a political or historical school with thurgood marshall. you wont hear that. dick durbin from illinois stood up and defended thurgood marshall saying the country is better but well see where it goes. >> right now, as you look at the hearing room, theyre getting ready to set up for senators kerry and brown to sit alongside at the witness table and introduce her. quickly, the mitch mcconnell says no one has doubt shes bright and person able but the supreme court is not a dinner club...

Congress has a limited area. its not everything in interstate commerce or at least not everything can be said to be in interstate commerce because it might, under certain circumstances, affect it. it gets into a technical argument about the meaning of the interstate commerce clause which has been the avenue through which legislating and judicial deciding has been done. >> its an important question today, especially when we have a president who likes to use his executive powers and the congress t...