Politics Under questioning from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kagan also defended her decision to limit military recruiting at Harvard while she was dean of the law school. Kagan, 50, is solicitor general and a former aide in the Clinton administration. Republicans have questioned her lack of experience as a judge and portrayed her as an activist more interested in politics than law
Politics Obama wants to slap a 0.15 percent tax on the liabilities of the biggest U.S. financial institutions to recoup the costs to taxpayers of the financial bailout. “We need to impose a fee on the banks that were the biggest beneficiaries of taxpayer assistance at the height of our financial crisis — so we can recover every dime of taxpayer money,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.
