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CHICAGO (WLS) - A lot of reaction Wednesday morning to Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky's interview with Don Wade and Roma. Schakowsky said that Americans don't deserve to keep all of their money because we need taxes to support our society. “I’ll put it this way. You don’t deserve to keep all of it and it’s not a question of deserving because what government is, is those things that we decide to do together. And there are many things that we decide to do together like have our national security. Like have police and fire. What about the people that work at...

According to its October 2009 quarterly finance report, the Hillary Clinton for President campaign has one outstanding debt: $995,500 owed to Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, LLC, which is run by Democratic pollster Mark Penn. According to The Hill today, the same firm received a $2.8 million stimulus subcontract "for media services and outreach to help prepare 'unready' households for the DTV transition" -- a contract that Republican Senators contend was "pure waste." Thanks to Mark Penn, a handful of people avoided the inconvenience of losing a few days' television service. And thanks to the stimulus, Penn is not being...

A new nonpartisan congressional report to be released Wednesday raises constitutional questions about whether state legislatures have the power to seek economic-stimulus funds that their governors reject. Such questions could imperil stimulus funds for South Carolina and Texas, whose governors have said that they'd reject some of their states' share of the money. The report by the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan research arm of Congress, casts doubt on a key provision of the $787 billion stimulus bill that President Barack Obama signed into law last month, according to people familiar with the report, who couldn't be named because they...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maine's Susan Collins says time is getting short as House and Senate negotiators reach for a final deal with the White House on economic stimulus legislation. Conferees from the two chambers today agreed to pare the measure to below $800 billion. The $838 billion Senate bill that cleared earlier this week had the backing of only three of 41 Republicans -- but that was enough to give it the 60 votes it needed. Collins and fellow Mainer Olympia Snowe were among those who broke ranks with most Republicans. Collins told reporters today that she hopes other GOP...

If you are able, turn Glenn Beck on. He is on fire and saying what each of us says non-stop on here. For cubicle bound...blasting Porkulus and railing on Specter for his stupid answers to media questions on why he is voting for this bill. Specter keeps saying that he is told "if we don't do something, then we are going to have a catastrophe". Reporter asks him about the ridiculous spending and provisions and Specter says that is what happens when you don't have enough time to hold hearings and debate. Glenn went off "AND YET YOU ARE STILL...

Every so often a president finds himself standing completely exposed--naked, so to speak--before the political class. This first happened to George W. Bush in October 2005, when Bush nominated his White House counsel, Harriet Miers, to the Supreme Court. In Miers, the chief executive had chosen neither a lawyer of intellectual distinction nor a reliable conservative. As she began making courtesy calls on members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, word began leaking from the offices of astonished senators that her purchase on even the most basic constitutional case law proved tenuous. Opposition to Miers mounted. No less a figure that...