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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for November 2012
Blog Entries for Thursday, November 29
Fiscal cliff talks set for Thursday
After several days of post-Thanksgiving rhetorical shadow boxing, there will finally be some closed door talks on the fiscal cliff between the White House and leaders in Congress. Sort of. Instead of the Big Four of Boehner, Pelosi, Reid and McConnell meeting with President Obama at the White House, the ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, November 28
Congress demands answers from VA on conferences
It was a classic scene in a House committee room on Wednesday, as officials from the Veterans Affairs Department were run up and down the flagpole by lawmakers in both parties in a dispute over conference spending by the VA. The battle started earlier this year in the wake of ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, November 27
Washington's Fiscal Cliff Dance
If you thought this week would be filled with closed door negotiating sessions involving leaders in Congress and President Obama over the fiscal cliff, that's not the recipe for success being utilized in Washington, D.C. Instead, both parties are jacking up their public relations efforts, and trying their best to ...
Republicans taps new House panel chairs
House Republicans on Tuesday announced their lineup of committee chairs for the 113th Congress, which begins in January, as a number of major changes took place thanks to GOP rules that limit service in the party's top slot on committees to six years. Only one person was given an exemption ...
Blog Entries for Monday, November 26
Sifting through fiscal cliff numbers
As we wait to see if Congress and the President will go over the fiscal cliff at the end of the year on taxes and spending, it's important to remember that the options involved are very well known to both parties in Washington, D.C. It was just a year ago ...
Congressional fiscal cliff rumblings
As Chaplain Barry Black opened the first post-Thanksgiving session of the Senate with a prayer on Monday afternoon, there was still some hope in the hallways of the Capitol that the recent holiday might have tempered the political attacks that have marked the debate over the fiscal cliff. After all, ...
New legal challenge to Obama health law
The U.S. Supreme Court today reversed course, and is allowing a challenge against the Obama health law by a religious school to go forward before a federal appeals court, signaling that the legal challenges against those reforms are by no means over. This case involves Liberty University, a religious school ...
Five weeks to the fiscal cliff
Hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving - but now, back to reality in Washington, D.C., as the Congress returns to work this week from a holiday break seemingly no closer to a deal on taxes and spending - with the end of the year deadline for an agreement just five weeks ...
Blog Entries for Monday, November 19
Democrats win final undecided House races
Highlighted by a win over Tea Party favorite Allen West in Florida, Democrats over the weekend put the final ribbons on the last five undecided U.S. House races, ensuring a pick up of eight seats from the 2012 elections, as they narrowed the Republican majority in the Congress. While West ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, November 18
Six weeks to go on the fiscal cliff
There are only six weeks left until the end of the year, until the Bush tax rates and the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 expire. The clock is ticking. But you probably won't see any real action this Thanksgiving week from either the Congress or the White House. ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, November 15
More Postal Service red ink
For more than a year, the Postal Service has been asking Congress, and asking Congress, and asking Congress to pass a reform law that would allow major internal changes in order to stem billions in losses. Congress has yet to act, and the red ink keeps flowing at record rates. ...
A call to cut non-defense military spending
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is out with a new report claiming that the Pentagon routinely spends billions each year on programs that have nothing to do with military readiness, arguing that at a time of budget troubles, there's no reason not to cut out what isn't needed. As I detailed ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, November 14
Political grinding on the fiscal cliff
Most lawmakers in the Congress and President Obama are all talking a good game right now about compromise on the fiscal cliff, but soon enough, they will be tested on just how far they will go to reach a tax and budget agreement. "I recognize that we're going to have ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, November 13
Democrats celebrate election victories
As a smiling group of newly elected Democrats in the U.S. House gathered for a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, most of them were only going to play the part of a backdrop for top Democrats as they celebrated their gains in last week's elections. That is, ...
New members start Congressional orientation
Dozens of newly elected members of the 113th Congress - plus a few who might be elected, but whose races still aren't fully settled - will take their first official step on Capitol Hill Tuesday, as official Congressional orientation meetings begin, with plenty of election suspense still left in the ...
Blog Entries for Monday, November 12
Congress starts lame duck session
After watching voters leave the status quo in place in last week's elections, the House and Senate return to work on Tuesday with a very full plate of legislative work ahead, but no clear road map on how to deal with a series of expiring tax laws and billions in ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, November 7
President, Congress look for way forward
Okay, so now what? After watching both parties spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a lengthy and fiery campaign, the voters left no clear path forward by keeping control of the Congress divided on Tuesday, as both sides started maneuvering for advantage on how best to deal with looming ...
A post-election polling review
During the past year, there was almost nothing more controversial for me to do as a reporter than to report on poll numbers, as both sides routinely accused this reporter and the polling organizations of bias for either the Republicans or Democrats. Now that the 2012 elections are over, it ...
Obama wins the ground game
I almost hate to say it in the months before an election, because it sounds so ridiculous, but you win and lose elections many times based on the quality of your work in getting people to the polls - GOTV is what it is called - Get Out The Vote. ...
Some change, but status quo in Congress
While there will be new names and faces in the 113th Congress that convenes in January, the basic outline on Capitol Hill did not change as a result of Tuesday's elections, as Republicans kept control of the House and Democrats stayed in charge of the Senate. Only one Senator was ...
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