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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for February 2013
Blog Entries for Thursday, February 28
White House quarrels with press on sequester
Reporters in recent days have been taking a much more skeptical view of White House claims related to how automatic budget cuts will impact Americans in coming weeks, as reporters on Wednesday again tangled at a briefing with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney over the central issue of whether ...
GAO reports on travel by Attorney General, FBI Director
Congressional investigators report that the feds spent $1.5 million over four years just to fly a plane to the main airport in Washington, D.C., in order to put that aircraft into position to then fly the Attorney General and FBI Director on both official and private trips. Overall, the tab ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, February 27
More wrangling over sequester, but no deal
After a closed door meeting with GOP leaders on Wednesday, rank and file Republicans in the House signaled their approval of plans to push ahead next week with a bill to fund the operations of the government, a plan which would also maintain the $85 billion in budget cuts in ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, February 26
Senate Democrats roll out sequester bill
Senate Democrats have unveiled a bill dealing with pending automatic budget cuts which would ward off some of the cuts by focusing spending reductions on farm and defense programs, and also includes tax increases on wealthy Americans and the oil and gas industry. "It would replace half of the first ...
Release of illegal immigrants irks GOP
In a move that could inflame partisan tensions over both automatic budget cuts and efforts to move immigration reform legislation through the Congress, the Obama Administration has started releasing some illegal immigrants now being held by the feds. This was the story from the Associated Press earlier today that confirmed ...
Blog Entries for Monday, February 25
More questions about automatic budget cuts
As the deadline approaches on $85 billion in automatic cuts to the federal budget this Friday, there is one question that keeps getting repeated by my listeners and readers - are these cuts real? Again, I will say that they are real cuts in the short term. Really. "I ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, February 24
White House goes state by state on sequester
Rejecting assertions of fear mongering, the White House on Sunday rolled out details of how $85 billion in automatic budget cuts scheduled to hit on Friday would hit all fifty states and Washington, D.C., painting a picture of job losses, economic hardship, health troubles and education setbacks. "Unless Congress acts ...
Not all budget cuts are created equal
As Washington, D.C. furiously plans for $85 billion in budget cuts that could kick in starting this Friday, most federal employees will not feel an immediate change, as any furloughs won't begin until April. That's because under federal law, workers get a 30 day notice of possible furloughs, and they ...
Blog Entries for Friday, February 22
FAA may close air traffic towers at smaller airports
The threat of across the board budget cuts has the U.S. Department of Transportation also talking about furloughs of workers at the Federal Aviation Administration, and that could mean both delays in air travel for travelers and the closure of air traffic towers at smaller airports nationwide. Here is a ...
White House push back continues on sequester
Stung by criticism in an op-ed piece in today's New York Times, the White House continued its aggressive campaign to push back on issues related to automatic budget cuts set to hit on March 1, rejecting talk that the President has not been specific on what he wants to do ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, February 21
Questions about automatic budget cuts
There are a lot of unknowns about the $85 billion in budget cuts known as the sequester which will kick in on March 1, and that's reflected in the questions coming in from readers and listeners, so let's go through a few that were in my inbox. One big issue, ...
Pentagon details state-by-state furloughs
The Pentagon has released figures showing the impact of the plan to furlough over 700,000 civilian defense workers in order to deal with automatic budget cuts set to hit on March 1. The plan, which would involve one furlough day a week from late April through the end of the ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, February 20
Gauging the sequester's impact
One of the big unanswered questions right now is what happens when we hit the March 1 deadline for automatic budget cuts? Will the cuts be "brutal" as the President has described them, or will we not notice right away? The Pentagon gave one answer on Wednesday as officials outlined ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, February 19
The sequester would really cut the budget
I know it's hard for many people to believe, but instead of just trimming the rate of increase in the federal budget, the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts set to hit on March 1 would actually result in less spending by Uncle Sam. Really. Here's the basic figures: The ...
IRS rapped over mobile internet, smartphone use
An internal review at the Internal Revenue Service has found that thousands of mobile internet cards and hundreds of smartphones issued to IRS workers aren't being used for months at a time, raising questions about whether millions of dollars spent for those items is being wasted. The report found 68 ...
Blog Entries for Monday, February 18
Turnover becomes the norm in U.S. Senate
People constantly tell me that term limits are needed in the Congress to ensure new faces and ideas on Capitol Hill. And I always tell people that there is more turnover than they realize in the House and Senate. But even I was surprised when I went back to check ...
Congress takes break as cuts loom
With less than two weeks until $85 billion in automatic budget cuts hit the U.S. Government, don't expect much from Congress on the subject this week, as the House and Senate are not in session. Lawmakers will return to the U.S. Capitol on February 25. Senators may vote later that ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, February 17
No press coverage of Obama-Tiger golf outing
President Obama played golf on Sunday with Tiger Woods. But no news organization or reporters who traveled with the President to Florida were able to witness even a fleeting glance of that golf pairing at an exclusive golf club near Palm Beach. It left reporters aggravated, especially after the White ...
Blog Entries for Friday, February 15
Congress wants answers on cruise ship debacle
Just hours after the Carnival Triumph was towed in from the Gulf of Mexico and finally docked in Mobile, Alabama, Congress began asking questions of the U.S. Coast Guard on the incident, trying to find out whether there is a larger safety issue that needs to be reviewed involving large ...
Democrats move on automatic budget cuts
After months of finger pointing over who is to blame for billions of dollars in automatic budget cuts, Democrats in the House and Senate rolled out plans to avert cuts scheduled to hit on March 1, as House Republicans said they would not act on any budget measure until the ...
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