In a speech delivered on the Senate floor yesterday, Alaska's Senator Lisa Murkowski pointed out the urgency of acting now to address the national problem of tsunami debris that is approaching the shores of the western United States.
In a Supreme Court decision on June 18th, justices decided 5-4 in favor of tribes in the Salazarv. Ramah Navajo Chapter case.
The experts at the Tax Policy Center released a report this morning on the distributional effects of base-broadening income tax reform.
When it appeared that S.1717, an act for the Prevention of Escapement of Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States, would fall one vote short of being passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee, Senator Begich pulled the bill from consideration.