Opening Act: Srinivasan

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April 12 2013 8:53 AM

Opening Act: Srinivasan

The interior of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003.

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The text of the Manchin-Toomey gun compromise, the stuff that'll form the basis of the final bill (via amendment), is released: Here.

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Jeffrey Toobin introduces the next Supreme Court justice ... if he can ever get confirmed.

CREW tries manfully to find a scandal in the McConnell/Progress Kentucky eavesdropping tape.


It's really not unheard of for staffers to do campaign work on their own time—during the long recesses, for example—in the time before a campaign has really staffed up.

Dylan Matthews explains why it's so hard to compare the various political budgets released every year:

[S]eemingly simple questions about the budget, like “Does Obama or Ryan cut the Medicare budget more over 10 years?” are rather hard to answer honestly. And that’s leaving out dumb mistakes that get made when you’re trying to get the data out fast. For example, when I was entering numbers for Social Security yesterday, I took care to subtract out the $130 billion in cuts due to chained CPI. Only I cut them from the baseline, not the actual program spending. So what is actually a cut looked like a spending increase.

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