Kollar-Kotelly Throws out 15 of 19 Campaign Finance Laws
Mon Sep 20, 2004 at 02:48:20 PM PDT
The same judge who threw out the Microsoft break-up ruling, and
backed the feds
in the Gitmo case today
issued a 157-page ruling today which rejects 15 of 19 of the campaign finance law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush two years ago. The ruling does not affect the law's key provision, prohibiting large donations to political parties, known as "soft money", but does seem to create some uncertainty for political fund-raising, with only six weeks to go until the elections.
Highlights and links inside
Kyoto is Dead - Long Live Pragmatism?
Fri Sep 17, 2004 at 02:52:39 PM PDT
There's
troubling news (FT subscription reqd, alternate copy
here)
coming from Japan, where the Kyoto protocol on Greenhouse Emissions was born in 1997. It seems that the Japanese aren't going to be able to meet their emissions targets specified in the agreement in time. Indeed, unless they buy a "large quantity" of emissions credits from other countries, they're not going to be able to meet their commitment at all.
Taishi Sugiyama, a climate expert at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan, said emissions were rising 1 per cent a year due to a larger-than-expected impact from vehicles and households. That made it impossible to cut real domestic emissions by the required 16 per cent within a few years, he said.
Is this the last nail in the coffin for the Kyoto protocol? And if so, which way do we go when it's buried? Was GWB right to pull out, and where will John Kerry take us, in either case?
John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 2003 and 2004
Wed Sep 15, 2004 at 02:56:17 PM PDT
What follows is the last in a series of entries which have provided a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, and have been summarized and excerpted from the
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for the Senator. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the year,
2003 and 2004.
Previous Year's entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002.
John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 2002
Wed Sep 15, 2004 at 02:37:04 AM PDT
What follows is the next in a series of entries which will provide a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, which has been summarized and excerpted from the
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for Senator Kerry. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the year,
2002.
Other Year's entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 2001
Tue Sep 14, 2004 at 04:09:47 PM PDT
What follows is the next in a series of diaries which will provide a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, which has been summarized and excerpted from the
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for Senator Kerry. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the year,
2001.
Other Year's entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 2000
Tue Sep 14, 2004 at 02:09:08 AM PDT
What follows is the next in a series of diaries which will provide a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, which has been summarized and excerpted from the
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for Senator Kerry. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the year,
2000.
Other Year's entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 1999
Mon Sep 13, 2004 at 03:41:39 PM PDT
What follows is the next in a series of diaries which will provide a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, which has been summarized and excerpted from the
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for Senator Kerry. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the year,
1999.
Other Year's entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 1998
Mon Sep 13, 2004 at 03:10:35 AM PDT
What follows is the next in a series of diaries which will provide a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, which has been summarized and excerpted from the
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for Senator Kerry. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the year,
1998.
Other Year's entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 1997
Sun Sep 12, 2004 at 03:36:41 PM PDT
What follows is the next in a series of diaries which will provide a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, which has been summarized and excerpted from the
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for Senator Kerry. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the year,
1997.
Other Year's entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 1996
Sun Sep 12, 2004 at 01:49:12 AM PDT
What follows is the next in a series of diaries which will provide a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, which has been summarized and excerpted from the
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for Senator Kerry. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the year,
1996.
Other Year's entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 1995
Sat Sep 11, 2004 at 02:07:10 PM PDT
What follows is the next in a series of diaries which will provide a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, which has been summarized and excerpted from
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for Senator Kerry. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the year,
1995.
Other Year's entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 1994
Sat Sep 11, 2004 at 02:38:36 AM PDT
What follows is the next in a series of diaries which will provide a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, which has been summarized and excerpted from
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for Senator Kerry. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the year,
1994.
Other Year's entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
Senator John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 1993
Fri Sep 10, 2004 at 03:54:55 PM PDT
What follows is the fourth of about 10 or so diaries which will provide a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, which has been summarized and excerpted from
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for Senator Kerry. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the year,
1993.
All entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 1992
Fri Sep 10, 2004 at 01:23:16 AM PDT
What follows is the third of about 10 or so diaries which will provide a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, which has been summarized and excerpted from
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for Senator Kerry. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the year,
1992.
All entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
Thanks to
Project Vote Smart for their excellent information and for their time and effort to compile it. This diary simply summarizes their work.
John Kerry's Senate Voting Record - 1989, 1990, 1991
Thu Sep 09, 2004 at 02:22:57 PM PDT
What follows is the second of several diaries which will provide a year-by-year record of John Kerry's voting record in the US Senate, which has been summarized and excerpted from
Project Vote Smart - Key Votes listing for Senator Kerry. This entry covers Sen. Kerry's voting record for the years,
1989, 1990, and 1991. Both 1989 and 1990 are documented by Vote Smart as having only a single
Key Vote for the Senator, while 1991 has many more, and is comparable to 1988, which was documented in the
first entry in this diary series.
All other entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
Thanks to
Project Vote Smart for their excellent information and for their time and effort to compile it. This diary simply summarizes their excellent work.
John Kerry's Voting Record - 1988
Thu Sep 09, 2004 at 04:17:50 AM PDT
To become more familiar with John Kerry's Senate voting record, I've written up a little Perl script to parse the output from his voting record as given by
Project Vote Smart, and produce a formatted single page for each year that he has been in the Senate. The Project Vote Smart pages are extremely informative and helpful, but they don't provide a comprehensive year-by-year view like this, so one is forced to click several links to get to the information for each and every vote.
What follows is the first of several diaries which will provide this information on a year-by-year basis. This first entry gives John Kerry's voting record for 1988, the first year where his record in the Senate is kept by Vote Smart, and a very active year indeed. Kerry has served in the US Senate from 1984 to the present.
Many thanks should go to
Project Vote Smart for their excellent information and their time and effort to compile it. Note: some duplicates are found, due to certain bills being categorized under multiple categories by Vote Smart. I hope this information is useful for the purposes of informed debate of his record.
All entries:
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002
2003,
2004.
More on Active Duty Military Attending the RNC
Fri Sep 03, 2004 at 01:34:27 PM PDT
A
recent report
filed by the Associated Press contained a startling bit of information:
About 15 percent of the 4,800-plus delegates and alternates to the convention in New York are veterans, organizers said Monday. An additional 3 percent are active military personnel.
This report was
displayed prominently
on the Republican National Committee's website, and
lauded gleefully
by the fine folks at Free Republic, among others
As it turns out though, and as
mentioned by Kos here,
it's actually not such a good thing to have active-duty military anywhere near a political convention - if you value your democracy. In fact, up until just a few days before the convention, it was quite illegal for active-duty military even to attend. And yet, there it was in black and white. Active duty military members were not only attending, but participating as delegates in the RNC. How could this happen?
A Smiling Fetus is a Happy Fetus
Tue Jun 29, 2004 at 03:22:29 PM PDT
An astonishing new ultrasound technique shows new things about the life within.
