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Blog Entries for Monday, April 30
Obama & Bin Laden
A year after a team of U.S. Navy SEALS went deep into Pakistan and killed Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, President Obama is pushing back on charges that he is trying to capitalize on the one year anniversary of that operation for political gain. Republicans complained bitterly in recent ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, April 29
42 Helps 44
Four years after it was Obama vs Clinton, this weekend brought proof of how the Clintons are now securely on Team Obama, as the former President helped the current President raise money and campaign for re-election in recent days. On Sunday, the 42nd President headlined a fund raiser for the ...
Student Loan Fight Continues
The political hot spot in the Congress will again be a focus on plans to extend a freeze on student loan interest rates for another year, as the Senate (after a week off) will take up a plan from Democrats which only differs in how the extension is paid for. ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, April 26
The Capitol as Family
There was no "Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day" when I was a kid. But seeing that we only lived a few blocks from the Capitol, I made it over to the offices where my parents worked from time to time. Now, over forty years later, I'm the ...
Student Loan Interest Rate Vote
The House on Friday will vote on a bill from Republicans that would insure interest rates for student loans don't jump suddenly in July. How we got here is a very interesting peek into the politics of 2012. One week ago, the White House announced that President Obama would go ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, April 25
Postal Reform Gets Thumbs Down
Soon after backers of a major Postal Service reform bill pushed their plan through the U.S. Senate, the Postmaster General gave the effort a big thumbs down, saying Senators are blocking too many of his plans to save money. "Unfortunately, action by the Senate today falls far short of the ...
Mitt Romney Blowout
There was no hiccup, no protest vote, no stumble for Mitt Romney in five northeastern states on Tuesday night. The results were simply an old fashioned southern butt whipping of his remaining Republican competitors. Romney won every single county in New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Romney won ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, April 24
Supreme Court - Arizona Immigration Law
If the theater of the Obama health law wasn't enough, the politically explosive issue of illegal immigration reaches the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, as the Justices review a legal challenge to an Arizona law that cracks down on those wrongly in the United States. At issue is what's known ...
Student Loan Rates
President Obama is on a two day, three state trip this week highlighting his call for Congress to prevent an increase in student loan rates due to take effect on July 1. If nothing is done, interest rates for student loans would go from 3.4% to 6.8% - something that ...
Blog Entries for Monday, April 23
Romney's Tuesday Test
While Mitt Romney has been deemed the Republican frontrunner in the wake of Rick Santorum's decision to drop out of the GOP race for the White House, Tuesday is the first chance for Romney to prove that in five different primaries. In other words, if Romney sweeps Pennsylvania, New York, ...
Senate-Postal Reform
It's not too often that we have legislation on the floor in the Congress where those of us in the Press Gallery aren't quite sure what will happen when the votes are counted - and that is true on a major postal reform bill now before the Senate. Votes on ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, April 22
$500,000 Federal Conferences
Last week the Congress battered the General Services Administration repeatedly over excessive spending on travel and conferences, and this week, the Senate will vote on an amendment to rein in that spending. So, the logical question is, by how much? The bid for change comes from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), ...
Senate Tackles Postal Reform
With mail volume continuing to drop, the numbers are simply ugly for the U.S. Postal Service, which lost over $3 billion just in the first quarter of this year; Congress though remains at odds over how best to allow for changes to ease that flow of red ink. The fight ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, April 19
Obama Election Year Travel
Every four years there seem to be complaints - no matter which party is in power in the White House - about the travel schedule of a President and whether more of the tab should be picked up by the President's party or re-election campaign. And this year is no ...
The Federal Budget
Under the radar when compared to the back and forth of the race for President, the budget for Fiscal Year 2013 is quietly starting to take shape on Capitol Hill, as key committees in the House and Senate are actively drafting a series of spending bills. As of now, the ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, April 18
GSA Hearings - Day Three
There wasn't much more that could be said on the third day of hearings in Congress on the excessive spending by the General Services Administration, as lawmakers wondered aloud how the feds could prevent such abuses in the future. "What's next?" asked a peeved Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), who pronounced ...
The Pentagon's Books
While this week's focus in Congress on excessive spending at the General Services Administration zeroed in on over $822,000 spent on a conference in Las Vegas, many in Congress think much more than that is at risk in the military's budget when it comes to waste, fraud and abuse. Just ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, April 17
GSA Hearings - Day Two
There was more bipartisan outrage in a second day of hearings about excessive spending by top officials of the General Services Administration, as lawmakers were told regional GSA officials spent money with little to no oversight from headquarters in Washington, D.C. "I'm coming to a boiling point," said a stern ...
Blog Entries for Monday, April 16
Sex vs Warren Buffett
There are times when everything breaks perfectly in politics and there are times when events just overtake your intended message, no matter how perfectly it might have been planned out - and that's sort of what we saw this past week on the Buffett Rule. Last week the White House ...
GSA Hearings - Day One
If you opened the Congressional Handbook, you might well find today's hearing on the General Services Administration on page one of the chapter about hearings and Congressional Outrage, as lawmakers in both parties slammed big spending at the GSA. "Thank God this time what happened in Vegas didn't stay in ...
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