Wednesday, April 15, 2015

A Busy and Bipartisan Tuesday

A Busy and Bipartisan Tuesday-rollcall: For all the talk of the death of bipartisanship, Tuesday’s busy legislative day in the Senate provided quite the counter-argument. A little more than a day after returning from a two-week recess, the legislative dam burst, with senators making significant headway on sticky issues such as the Iran nuclear deal, a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law, a replacement for the payment formula for doctors who treat Medicare patients and possibly even the confirmation process for Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general.