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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for December 2012
Blog Entries for Monday, December 31
Highlights of fiscal cliff deal
Highlights of a tentative agreement Monday between the White House and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., aimed at averting wide tax increases and budget cuts scheduled to take effect in the new year. The measure would raise taxes by about $600 billion over 10 years compared with tax policies ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, December 30
Searching for a fiscal cliff deal
The last time the Congress was at work on a Sunday, it was last year when lawmakers were desperately searching for an agreement on a debt limit increase. In that case, political maneuvering ran right up to the midnight deadline. And it is happening again now on the fiscal cliff. ...
Blog Entries for Saturday, December 29
Weekend of deal making in Congress
The future of a fiscal cliff deal is now up to Senate leaders as they try to forge a tax and budget agreement, sell it to each party, avoid a series of ever-present procedural hurdles, get it approved by the Senate and then get that measure to the House for ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, December 27
Forging a fiscal cliff deal
Really, it shouldn't be so hard to put together a deal on the fiscal cliff, right? Yes, both sides have drawn lines in the sand, but we are down to the end of the year and it should be possible to put together some kind of scaled-back deal, shouldn't it? ...
A little Congressional civics on the fiscal cliff
I have had a number of emails asking me about what the House passed this year on the fiscal cliff and whether those bills were taken up by the Senate. That is an issue as both sides blame the other for not reaching a deal on the fiscal cliff, with ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, December 26
Fiscal cliff deal could elude Congress
As the Senate returns to work on Thursday morning and President Obama retuns early from a Christmas vacation in Hawaii, the latest five day break from Washington, D.C. does not seem to have produced any way forward on the tax and budget impasse known as the fiscal cliff. "The lines ...
So much to do in Congress, so little time
As both parties continue to struggle over what to do on the tax and budget fight known as the fiscal cliff, the Congress has only a few days to deal with what is an extensive legislative to-do list of politically tricky items that have been awaiting action for most of ...
Blog Entries for Friday, December 21
Congress gropes for fiscal cliff roadmap
As Senators left town on Friday afternoon for a Christmas break, there was no concrete answer from either party on how the tax and budget impasse known as the fiscal cliff would be solved before the end of the year. "I have no idea what ought to happen," said Sen. ...
President praises calls for action on gun violence
A week after the Newtown, Connecticut school shootings, the White House posted a video Friday morning of President Obama talking about the need for action on ways to reduce gun violence, as he thanked those who had used a special on-line petition to urge action on guns. "We hear you," ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, December 20
GOP "Plan B" runs aground in U.S. House
As they walked out of a closed door meeting of Republicans in the basement of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday night, GOP lawmakers seemed somewhat stunned at the turn of events that had just occurred, as Republican leaders were forced to yank a fallback fiscal cliff plan off the House ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, December 19
House to vote on fiscal cliff "Plan B"
It's not quite clear where the negotiations are going on the tax and budget impasse known as the fiscal cliff, as the verbal sparring increased on Wednesday and Republicans prepare to push ahead with their own fallback plan in the House. "I hope the President will get serious soon," said ...
Senate death brings historic change
The death this week of Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) brought about a historic change on the Senate Appropriations Committee, as Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) will take over the gavel of that important panel, becoming the first woman to chair that committee. "It is especially gratifying to be the first woman ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, December 18
Report finds security shortfall in Benghazi
A new report from the State Department blames "systemic failures" and "management deficiencies" for allowing U.S. diplomats to operate in Libya with less security than was needed, allowing an attack on September 11, 2012 to result in the deaths of four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador. The 39 page report ...
White House pushes on gun controls
After nibbling around the edges of the gun control issue in the immediate aftermath of the school shootings in Connecticut, the White House on Tuesday made no bones about President Obama's support for a series of gun control measures as part of an overall strategy to curb gun violence. "He ...
Blog Entries for Monday, December 17
No quick White House moves on gun control
While a number of Democrats in Congress called for some type of legislative response to the mass school shooting in Connecticut, there was no real agreement on what would be the best way to address that tragedy, as the White House made clear there will be no rush of gun ...
Moving towards a fiscal cliff deal
It may still take some time to work out the final details, but we seem to be on the road to a deal on the tax and budget impasse known as the fiscal cliff, as the latest signs of an agreement came on Monday with a new offer by the ...
Congress looks at gun controls
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has been seen as one of the most conservative Democrats in recent years, so when he said on Monday that the Connecticut shootings show the need for a broader discussion, it was noticed on Capitol Hill. After all, in the 2010 and 2012 elections, ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, December 16
The politics of gun control
Nothing ever stays the same in politics, and that is true when it comes to the politics of guns, as backers of gun control find themselves in the distinct minority in Congress now, a big switch from 20 years ago. Whether anything changes in the wake of last week's mass ...
Still looking for a fiscal cliff deal
Eclipsed by the aftermath of the mass school shooting in Connecticut, Congress returns to work Monday with just eight days until Christmas and two weeks until a year-end deadline for action on the tax and budget impasse known as the fiscal cliff. And there doesn't seem to be much optimism ...
Blog Entries for Friday, December 14
Gun control rumblings after school shooting
Even though the Congress was not in session on Friday as word arrived of the mass shootings at a Connecticut elementary school, lawmakers flocked to social media to send their thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families, with most - but not all - side stepping the politics ...
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