AP Enterprise: Vegas rail: a gamble or good thing?

The Democratically-controlled U.S. Senate will not be a free-for-all of new gun regulations following the shooting at Sandy Hook, according to Majority Leader Harry Reid. Instead, Senators will focus on passing legislation that can move through the Republican-controlled House, Reid said.

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | A politically motivated move -- killing a privately funded Maglev bullet train from Anaheim to Las Vegas and instead approving an $8 billion diesel-powered steel rail conventional train from Victorville to Las Vegas -- has the stench of deal-making all over it. The antiquated DesertXpress is a useless waste of taxpayer dollars supported by Sen. Harry Reid and Obama's Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood.

As delayed travelers and even airline companies begin to bemoan the effects of forced federal budget cuts on air travel, the Senate has once again turned its attention to possible ways to delay or halt sequestration. 

Steve Benen: “Looking over the guest lists for all of the Sunday shows, viewers will see two Republican senators (McCain, Graham), three Republican House members (Boehner, Ryan, Schilling), three likely Republican presidential candidates (Barbour, Gingrich, Pawlenty) … and zero Democrats from Congress or the Obama administration.”