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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for December 2010
Blog Entries for Thursday, December 23
Reporters On The Floor
Most lawmakers probably have no idea that the rules of the House of Representatives allow for certain reporters to have a seat on the House floor. Republicans want to expand that access even more. No one is quite sure the last time a member of the press was actually allowed ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, December 22
Glass Half Empty
While President Obama and his advisers can certainly take heart in their party's legislative victories in the Lame Duck session, there were some items that remained out of his reach in 2010. One of them was an issue that President Obama addressed on his very first day in office, as ...
The 111th Ends
The 111th Congress finally came to an end on Wednesday, as lawmakers pushed through a 9/11 health aid bill and a major arms reduction treaty, as the Lame Duck Congress was anything but lame in the last two weeks. "We didn't get everything we wanted," said Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
The Missing 168
168 members of the U.S. House failed to make the last vote of the year on Wednesday, dealing with health aid for first responders at Ground Zero after the Nine Eleven attacks. You can poke through this list to see if your home-state lawmakers were among those who started their ...
9/11 Health Deal
Key lawmakers in Congress have reached agreement on plans to deliver aid to first responders on 9/11 who have faced crippling illnesses from their work at Ground Zero. The agreement will be passed in the House and Senate in coming hours.Here is the text of a statement issued by Sen. ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, December 21
House Members MIA
63 members of the U.S. House - two dozen of them Lame Ducks - seemingly decided to take the final hours of the Congressional session off, as they missed all seven votes on Tuesday. Yesterday was supposed to be the last day for voting, but House leaders decided to bring ...
Not So Lame Duck
For all the griping and complaining that Democrats have done in recent weeks, they will be able to look back on this Lame Duck session of Congress and see a series of significant actions. Yes, they didn't particularly care for the tax deal negotiated by the White House with Republicans ...
US House Absentees
A lot of members of the House have been missing in action in these final days of the Congressional session. On Wednesday afternoon, the House voted to approve a major food safety bill. 74 members did not make the vote.Here's your list, with Republicans in italics, Democrats in regular type. ...
Congressional Xmas Rush
All the pieces are in place for the Congress to make its usual mad dash for adjournment over the next few days, as lawmakers get ready to approve a short term budget and more. Step one comes at 10:15 this morning, when the Senate votes on cloture - to shut ...
Congressional Reapportionment
This is a big day for the Congress, as the results of the Census being released today will determine which states gain seats in the U.S. House and which states lose. The biggest change is expected to be in Texas, which is forecast to get three or maybe four extra ...
Blog Entries for Monday, December 20
Stop-Gap Budget
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) Sunday night unveiled a stop-gap budget plan designed to keep the government running until March 4. If you want to read the bill - here it is. As you will see, it's filled with a lot of fine print that some might call legislative legalese, or ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, December 19
Year-End Budget Deal
Senate leaders have struck a final agreement on a short term budget, which will keep the federal government running through March 4, 2011. Here are the bullet points as announced Sunday evening by the Senate Appropriations Committee:- WASHINGTON, DC - Below are highlights of the Senate amendment to H.R. 3082, ...
Food Safety Bill Lives
A major food safety bill that had almost been given up for dead was suddenly revived in the Senate late on Sunday evening, and may be ready for House approval as early as Tuesday. In a parliamentary move laid out on the Senate floor by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ...
Congress & Christmas
Earlier this month, some of my more junior colleagues in the Press Gallery ridiculed me when I predicted that Congress would be in session until almost Christmas. What a bunch of rookies. Well, the calendar today reads December 20. It shouldn't be a surprise that the House and Senate still ...
A Different Omnibus
Last week, an Omnibus Budget bill died in the Senate. It was not the end of efforts by Democrats to put together wide-ranging legislation, as they unveiled a new Omnibus dealing with public lands bills. This 1,003 page bill was given the nice name of "America's Great Outdoors Act of ...
Blog Entries for Friday, December 17
No Tax Increase
For awhile, it looked like the Obama-GOP tax deal was going off the rails in the House on Thursday, but Democrats righted the ship as lawmakers joined to send that bill on to President Obama. The final tally was 277-148, another strong bipartisan majority in favor of the bill, which ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, December 16
The Omnibus Dies
Two days after unveiling a 1,924 page earmark-filled Omnibus Budget plan, Democrats last night pulled the plug on the massive budget bill, sparking an hour of bitter exchanges on the Senate floor. What most people probably don't realize is that the Omnibus bill was the product of months of negotiations ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, December 15
More Omnibus Earmarks
Oh, there is nothing like lifting the curtain in Congress, because it can spur all kinds of reaction from voters. That was proven again yesterday on anything related to Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. The dustup all began when I was searching for House Republicans who had earmarks in the ...
Those Pesky GOP Earmarks
While Republicans denounced the 1,924 page Omnibus budget bill that was unveiled by Senate Democrats yesterday, their arguments against earmarks ran into some trouble during a news conference today. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) joined Sen. John Thune (R-SD) in the Senate Radio-TV Gallery in what was billed as a news ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, December 14
The Omnibus Arrives
I have been talking about it for weeks, and yesterday it was finally released. A 1,924 page behemoth known in the lexicon of Capitol Hill as the "Omnibus" budget bill, chock full of thousands of home state budget earmarks.Even though it was championed by Democrats, the Omnibus is filled with ...
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