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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for February 2010
Blog Entries for Sunday, February 28
Jobs & Jobless II
Democrats will try again this week to approve jobs legislation and extend long term jobless and COBRA health benefits for the unemployed. Simmering beneath both items is a fight over whether items like this should be paid for, or added to the deficit. The jobs bill is on the schedule ...
Reconciliation History, Part 1
There has been a lot of finger pointing in recent days between the two parties about the arcane budget process known as budget reconciliation, and whether it should be used for something like health care reform. So let's take a trip down memory lane. The year was 1996. Bill Clinton ...
Health Care Numbers
The numbers game gets more and more interesting every day in the Congress, as you need a program to keep up with Election Year changes in the House - and how they will impact efforts by Democrats to get a health care bill through the Congress. As everyone knows from ...
Health Reform Tango
As Democrats start figuring out exactly what they are going to put into a re-designed health care reform bill, they also have before them an extraordinarily difficult legislative assignment to actually get a plan to the President's desk. The White House says President Obama is likely this week to chart ...
Blog Entries for Saturday, February 27
Obama on Quake/Tsunami
Here is the transcript of President Obama's remarks on Saturday about the earthquake in Chile and the tsunami threat to Hawaii and the Pacific. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release February 27, 2010 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE EARTHQUAKE IN ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, February 25
Health Care Fight
The Health Care Summit wasn't expected to produce a bipartisan agreement on health reform, and it did not, but it did produce some interesting moments when both parties weren't spouting their usual talking points on health legislation. "I really appreciate this exchange," said Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY)."It would have been ...
Obama v McCain
As soon as President Obama jabbed Sen. John McCain at the Health Care Summit on Thursday, the event took on a much different focus, as their exchanges became obvious ingredients for anyone writing a story about that political gathering. McCain got the juices rolling when he zeroed in on a ...
Jobs & Jobless Battle
Overshadowed by all of the coverage of the Health Care Summit was a battle among Democrats over a jobs bill and a nasty spat on the Senate floor on a short term extension of extended jobless benefits and health aid for the unemployed. The jobs battle was over that $15 ...
Summit Postgame Report
The Health Summit is over, and the logical question to ask is - which side won? I will let you answer that for yourself, based on your on views. How about where does this bill go from here? President Obama made it clear at several points in the summit that ...
Summit Halftime Report
It's been an interesting first session of the Health Care Summit put on by the White House, as President Obama has urged lawmakers to find ways to "bridge the gaps" on health policy that exist between the two parties. For any news reporter or producer worth his or her salt, ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, February 24
Health Care Summit
The big story today in Washington, D.C. will be the White House Health Care Summit, as President Obama and his top lieutenants will sit down with 39 lamwakers from Congress to try to hash out something on health reform legislation. It was an odd day before the Summit, as the ...
Toyota Post Mortem
If officials at Toyota had hoped that two days of Congressional hearings - including the appearance of CEO and namesake Akio Toyoda - would quell safety concerns about the Japanese automaker's vehicles, they probably didn't achieve that goal. "This is indeed a very embarrassing day," said Rep. John Mica (R-FL), ...
Health Summit Guest List
Here is a list of the Congressional attendees for Thursday's Health Care Summit in Washington, D.C. The rundown was provided by the White House. 38 names are listed here. One additional Republican will be added.=1. Senator Harry Reid, D-NV, Majority Leader 2. Senator Mitch McConnell, R-KY, Republican Leader 3. Senator ...
Business As Usual
Well, that didn't take long. Just eleven days after President Obama signed the Pay-as-you-go law, which requires Congress to find offsetting budget cuts for any new spending or tax cuts, the Senate waived that new law in order to approve a jobs bill backed by Democratic leaders. "Washington politicians proved ...
"Absolutely Bizarre"
I get to watch a lot of hearings in the Congress, and sometimes there are some odd things that happen, and yesterday, there was one of those during an exchange between Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Paul - who is well known for his distrust ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, February 23
Mr. Lentz, Yes or No
The email came through last weekend that Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), the longest serving member of the House will run for re-election. Any issues about age or sharpness of mind related to his bid were erased at yesterday's hearing on safety issues at Toyota. After passing on his first two ...
More Toyota Hearings
The focus of a second day of hearings on Toyota safety issues will be the CEO and namesake of the company, as Akio Toyoda will go before a House Committee to offer an apology over how the Japanese automaker handled questions about sudden acceleration in some of its vehicles. "My ...
Health Care Maneuvers
Both parties are doing all they can to get ready for tomorrow's health care summit sponsored by the White House, as the chances don't seem great that the gathering will spur a round of bargaining that might produce comprehensive, bipartisan health reform legislation. "We shouldn't let the White House have ...
The Jobs Fight
The Senate will vote today on a slimmed down, $15 billion jobs bill on Wednesday morning, sending the bill back to the House, but to an uncertain future. That's because the House has already approved a jobs bill that is more than 10 times the size of the Senate bill.As ...
Mr. Toyoda's Testimony
The House Oversight Committee has released the opening statement for the committee's Wednesday's hearing that features Toyota President and CEO Ako Toyoda. PREPARED TESTIMONY OF AKIO TOYODA PRESIDENT, TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATIONCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORMFEBRUARY 24, 2010Thank you Chairman Towns.I am Akio Toyoda of Toyota Motor Corporation. I would ...
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