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Hopkins junior Tyler Smith has been in politics since the age of five - he spent his formative toddler years sealing and stamping envelopes for the current mayor of Seattle Greg Nichols. "Back then, I was putting labels on envelopes and collecting paper from the printer," Smith said. This past summer, in keeping with his political inclinations, Smith spent the summer working as an intern for Constantine (D- Wash.) When he was working on the campaign, Constantine was a county council member in King C

Back then, I was putting labels on envelopes and collecting paper from the printer   -Tyler Smith

 

The Hill reports that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle helped Obama Administration officials strategize to win health care reform votes from Senators on Capitol Hill Wednesday.  

The Hill reports that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle helped Obama Administration officials strategize to win health care reform votes from Senators on Capitol Hill Wednesday. Daschle, who announced this week that he was leaving Alston & Bird for another lobbying firm, DLA Piper, "is unexpectedly at the heart of Washington's highest-level negotiations at a key moment in the movement to reform the nation's healthcare system. The ex-senator has repeatedly stressed he did not lobby for Alston & Bird  

For one, historically the president's party loses an average of about 16 House seats in his first midterm cycle, but there's really not much of a Senate correction. (The average is less than one seat.) Obviously, the Democrats could still over- or underperform the 16-seat benchmark.  

The Hill reports that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle helped Obama Administration officials strategize to win health care reform votes from Senators on Capitol Hill Wednesday. Daschle, who announced this week that he was leaving Alston & Bird for another lobbying firm, DLA Piper, "is unexpectedly at the heart of Washington's highest-level negotiations at a key moment in the movement to reform the nation's healthcare system. The ex-senator has repeatedly stressed he did not lobby for Alston & Bird  

Since the "Civil War", or the War for Southern Independence, established the preeminent place of the national government over the states, eliminating their ultimate sovereignty and right of self determination guaranteed under the tenth amendment of the Constitution, and the continual implementation of the progressive/statist agenda beginning with the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, the people of the various states in the union have been "disposed to suffer, while the evils are sufferable..." In recent ye  

Isaacson, who ran CNN for 18 months from 2001-2003, is also the former editor of Time Magazine. The other appointees are named in a press release from the White House, after the jump... WASHINGTON Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to the Broadcasting Board of Governors: President Obama said, "I am grateful that these distinguished individuals will be a part of this vital agency that has done so much to promote freedom and democracy around the w

I am grateful that these distinguished individuals will be a part of this vital agency that has done so much to promote freedom and democracy around the world. I look forward to working with them in the months and years ahead.   -Barack Obama

 

Setting up a historic year-end debate, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid unveiled his long-awaited version of legislation to reshape the nation's health care system Wednesday night, a measure designed to extend coverage to 94 percent of eligible Americans and bar private industry from denying insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions. "Tonight begins the last leg of this journey," said the Nevada Democrat, less than two weeks after the House approved its version — and nearly 10 months after  

Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning to help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) win support for a healthcare vote. Biden met with Reid, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), according to a Democratic aide. He faces the daunting task of passing a healthcare reform bill through the upper chamber by Christmas.