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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for March 2013
Blog Entries for Thursday, March 28
FAA sets end of funding for air traffic control towers
After announcing plans last week to shut down 149 air traffic control towers at smaller airports, the Federal Aviation Administration has now given the dates for when funding will run out for those contract air traffic towers. Not only does it give local communities notice on when operations will cease ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, March 27
Justices take aim at Defense of Marriage Act
Unlike the first day of arguments on gay marriage, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed to be heading in the direction of making a decision on the Defense of Marriage Act, as one could count five votes on the bench to strike down the law that defines marriage as ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, March 26
Reading the tea leaves at the U.S. Supreme Court
Just about one year ago, many of us again learned a good lesson about covering the U.S. Supreme Court, when the Justices left experts with the impression that the Court was ready to overturn the Obama health law. But, it didn't happen. So, after the first day of arguments on ...
Blog Entries for Monday, March 25
More change in the U.S. Senate
Another seat in the U.S. Senate will be in play in the 2014 mid-term elections, as Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) will reportedly announce on Tuesday that he is not running for re-election, presenting Republicans with a prime opportunity to pick up a seat in the Senate, and giving Democrats one ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, March 24
IRS backpedals from Star Trek video
After reports surfaced in recent days that the Internal Revenue Service had spent $60,000 to make a Star Trek parody video for use at training conferences, the IRS over the weekend apologized for how your tax dollars were spent. The IRS said in a statement that the "space parody video ...
Blog Entries for Friday, March 22
FAA to close 149 air traffic towers
The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that it will close 149 air traffic control towers at smaller airports nationwide due to budget cutbacks associated with $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that hit the federal government on March 1. The original list of possible closures issued on February 22 was ...
Senate Democrats officially unveil gun legislation
Taking the first official step to set up a full Senate debate in April on gun legislation, Democrats on Friday formally unveiled a package of gun bills, featuring a plan to require background checks "for every firearm sale," but the bill does not include two key gun control provisions on ...
Different views on Saturday mail delivery
As the Congress finally finished work on the 2013 budget for the federal government on Thursday, there were much different conclusions in the halls of Capitol Hill on what it meant for the effort by the U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday delivery of first class mail. Those who don't ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, March 21
Pentagon delays furlough notices
Hours after the U.S. House sent President Obama a final budget for the current fiscal year, the Pentagon announced it was taking time to review how that budget might impact plans to furlough hundreds of thousands of civilian defense workers for up to 22 days between April and the end ...
Senate finally ends budget stalemate
Ending almost eight days of limited debate on a bill that funds federal government operations through the end of the fiscal year, the Senate on Wednesday approved a nearly $1 trillion budget bill for Uncle Sam, even as the Congress started work on next year's budget outline. With House approval ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, March 20
Immigration reform pushed back in Congress
With a small group of Senators still working on an immigration reform plan, the chairman of a key Senate committee said Wednesday he does not see his panel doing anything on the controversial subject until at least May. "Without legislative language, there is nothing for the Judiciary Committee to consider ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, March 19
Senate stalls out on funding bill
Just a few days ago, it seemed like the Senate was poised for a wide open debate on a bill to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, with dozens of amendments filed by both parties and interesting votes on the horizon dealing with budgetary choices in ...
Sen. Rand Paul speech on immigration reform
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) laid out this thoughts on immigration reform in a spech today, which was billed by initial news reports as one where Paul endorsed a path to citizenship. But digging into the details of the speech, that headline may not be so clear. "Conservatives, myself included, ...
Blog Entries for Monday, March 18
Sequester hits Uncle Sam unevenly
While the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester are chopping money at the same percentage rate from different federal agencies, a review of options to deal with the cuts shows the impact of those spending reductions varies greatly between federal departments. For example, civilian defense workers - as many ...
Still no nominee for Commerce Secretary
As President Obama announced another choice on Monday for his second term Cabinet by choosing a new Secretary of Labor, one position in his Cabinet remains curiously unfilled, as it has for now for almost nine months. That job is Secretary of Commerce, which was last occupied by John Bryson. ...
GSA scraps two conferences
With tight budgets in the wake of the sequester, the General Services Administration has decided to cancel two conferences scheduled for later this year in a bid to save money. "As federal agencies are closely examining their budgets and making tough spending cuts, GSA has made the decision to suspend ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, March 17
Deep in the Senate fine print
We haven't had too many times in recent years where a budget bill has been on the floor of the U.S. Senate with a wide open amendment process, so as Senators try to finish work on a bill that funds the government for the rest of this fiscal year, there ...
Blog Entries for Friday, March 15
No end to debate on sequester impact
It has now been two weeks since automatic budget cuts kicked in, and Political Washington is still waiting to see whether there will be a dramatic impact as forecast by Democrats, or if ominous predictions made by the Obama Administration - and ridiculed by many Republicans - won't exactly come ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, March 14
Supreme Court expresses concern over sequester
Appearing for a yearly budget hearing before the Congress, two U.S. Supreme Court Justices voiced concern over automatic budget cuts that hit the federal government earlier this month, arguing it will have a negative impact on the Judicial Branch. "Over the long term, particularly for the courts as a whole ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, March 13
Senate Democrats detail budget outline
In a clear contrast with a House Republican budget plan, Democrats in the Senate set out their own ideas on how best to run the government, proposing $975 billion in tax increases over the next ten years in a spending blueprint that held no hint of a balanced budget. And ...
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