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Blog Entries for Monday, February 28
Health Law Legal
The feds have filed a legal brief with a federal judge in Florida that some believe might end up leading to a decision that blocks the feds from implementing the entire Obama health law. Judge Roger Vinson in January found the individual mandate, which forces people to buy health insurance, ...
Obama & The Governors
President Obama waded into the ongoing dispute over union rights for government workers today, as he lectured Governors on how best to squeeze additional savings out of state budgets. In a White House speech to most of the nation's Governors, the President acknowledged that public employees need to share in ...
Governors In DC
After a dinner at the White House on Sunday, most of the nation's Governors are back at the White House again on this Monday for a meeting with President Obama. The usual type of issues that surface at these meetings could well do so again today, as Governors in both ...
Blog Entries for Saturday, February 26
Back From The Brink
It looks like this might not be a Shutdown Showdown week, as a two-week GOP stop-gap budget unveiled last Friday may stave off legislative brinksmanship on the budget in Congress. At least for now.The Republican plan had no poison pills in it, no cuts that were unacceptable to Democrats, as ...
Blog Entries for Friday, February 25
Seeds of a Deal
With the Countdown To Shutdown Clock now at seven days, there could be some reason for optimism today in Congress, as both parties get ready to unveil plans to avoid a government shutdown. It's expected that Republicans in the House today will unveil a plan to extend the current temporary ...
Military Gravy Train
I could only chuckle as I watched the press releases and messages on Twitter roll in Thursday evening as the Pentagon announced its choice for a new Air Force refueling tanker plane. The news to me wasn't so much who won the tanker competition, but a reminder of how widely ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, February 24
Shutdown Shadowboxing
While some tough words are being traded between Democrats and Republicans over the current budget showdown, the real battle won't be joined until lawmakers return to work next week. And then, all bets are off. The White House tip toed into the dispute yesterday, trying to both be seen as ...
NASA On Defense
After President Obama unveiled his budget in 2010, I wrote a blog about how the U.S. space program had been taking its lumps in the Congress. A year later the story is much the same. As the Shuttle Discovery is on the launch pad today at Kennedy Space Center, the ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, February 23
Government Shutdown Chicken
That didn't take long. On the first business day since House Republicans approved $61 billion in cuts, Senate Democrats made clear they wanted no part of those Republican budget reductions. "Speaker Boehner should stop drawing lines in the sand, and come to the table to find a responsible path forward ...
Budget Fear Factor
The union for workers at the National Weather Service has been in high gear in the press in recent days, denouncing proposed budget cuts from House Republicans, claiming they could result in "significant loss" of lives."The worst case scenario is that major population centers will not get warnings of severe ...
Blog Entries for Monday, February 21
GOP v EPA
One of fascinating parts about last week's work in the House on budget cuts was the level of political energy directed by Republicans at the Environmental Protection Administration.Along with making a cut of $1.6 billion in the EPA's budget, the GOP spending plan had a number of amendments that would ...
The Republican 92
One of the most interesting votes last week in the House on GOP budget cutting plans was when more conservative Republicans pushed $22 billion in extra cuts - and 92 GOP lawmakers voted against that plan.It was yet another reminder in the halls of Congress that lots of people talk ...
Blog Entries for Saturday, February 19
House Approves Cuts
After four straight days of debate that took them past midnight each night, lawmakers in the House voted just before 5 am on Saturday morning to approve a temporary budget for the federal government, making close to $61.5 billion in cutbacks. "We have a mandate from the American people to ...
Blog Entries for Friday, February 18
House Budget Update
Friday brought another interesting flurry of votes and debate as the Republican-led House closed in on final approval of a package of $61 billion in budget cuts. Most of the news today was not about actual budget cuts, but instead policy restrictions on how federal dollars can be spent by ...
Government Shutdown Politics
While it's not time yet to start thinking about a possible government shutdown, both parties have clearly started to maneuver for public relations advantage on this issue, which will hit home in coming weeks. First, let's lay out what I'm talking about here.Right now, the federal government is operating under ...
More Than Cutbacks
As the House worked through the night on Thursday night, a mid-year budget cutting bill became more of a policy exercise, as Republicans struck back at the Obama Administration. In a flurry of votes around dinner time, the House first voted to block the Federal Communications Commission from enforcing its ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, February 17
House GOP Cuts
The House is expected to give approval to a package of Republican budget cuts late today, as GOP lawmakers follow through on their pledge to make immediate cuts in the federal budget. "The American citizen, whether they be Democrat or Republican knows that the federal government has gotten too large," ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, February 16
The Clerk Will Read II
The House floor featured something on Wednesday that we have not seen much of in recent years, amendments to a bill by the minority party, amendments which were actually approved in a bipartisan vote. "It's amazing to see some of the Democratic amendments win, some of them lose; some of ...
More Budget Amendments
Another 180 amendments were filed on Tuesday to the GOP budget cutting bill in the House, bringing the total to 583. Here is the latest batch: AMENDMENTS -- (House of Representatives - February 15, 2011)[Page: H924]--- Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as follows:H.R. 1 Offered ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, February 15
Budget Cut Scorecard
The House on Tuesday defeated the first four amendments to a $60.8 billion GOP budget cutting bill, as lawmakers set up a showdown today over cuts to a major military project. "This budget is not sustainable," said Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), who said Republicans need to start the process of ...
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