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Blog Entries for Monday, May 25
North Korean Rumblings
I do have to chuckle a bit at some of the stories about the North Korean nuclear threat, because they talk about the difficult choices the US must make on Pyongyang's latest nuke test. There aren't many options for President Obama. And there weren't many for George W. Bush or ...
Reading Tea Leaves
After plucking one of my kids out of the bathtub on Sunday evening, my blackberry noted the arrival of a message bearing President Obama's schedule for Monday. It listed no public events. And that made me wonder if something was near on a new Supreme Court nominee. No, I don't ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, May 21
Cap And Trade Advances
Democrats made it over the first hurdle as they try to push major legislation on greenhouse gas emissions, what's referred to as a cap and trade bill. After three full days of debate, the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the over 900 page bill, on a vote of 33-25. ...
Memorial Day Break
The cars were lined up on the plaza outside of the House and Senate chambers on Thursday, as lawmakers got ready to leave town for a 10 day break centered on Memorial Day. It was a busy run from Easter until now, and then next four week session that goes ...
More Oxygen On Pelosi
As lawmakers in the House head out on a Memorial Day break, they return home with debate still raging over the CIA controversy of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Republicans did their best to keep the story going on Thursday, forcing a parliamentary vote in the House on a resolution that would ...
Obama v Cheney
The back to back speeches by President Obama and Vice President Cheney were a fascinating thing to watch. It was almost like Campaign 2008 was underway again. President Obama was supposed to start at 10:10, with Cheney's speech slated to begin at 10:30. So we all had a good chuckle ...
Obama Speech Text
Here is the prepared text sent out by the White House of President Obama's speech today on national security issues. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY May 20, 2009 Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery Protecting Our Security and ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, May 20
Obama v Cheney
I can't wait to see all the splashy graphics on the cable networks on Thursday as they juggle coverage of speeches by President Obama and former Vice President Cheney. The two men will be speaking at almost the same time, addressing many of the same issues as the debate over national ...
Closed Doors On Health Care
Once again on Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee went into closed session to talk about health care reform, this time avoiding public scrutiny on how to pay for reform. In other words, there weren't lots of TV cameras recording sound bites for the evening news from Senators talking about how ...
Good Times For Gun Rights
I have had a front row seat for a lot of debates on a lot of subjects since getting my first job on Capitol Hill in 1980. It has been amazing to see how things have changed on the issue of guns. If we dug into all the emails that ...
A Rebuke On Guantanamo Bay
Earlier this week, five Senators voted against a credit card reform bill. Yesterday, six Senators voted against a move to block detainees at Guantanamo Bay from being transferred to the US. Those votes both shared something - as Senators could feel where the American people are on both credit cards and GTMO ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, May 19
Credit Cards and Guns, Part 2
If all goes as planned, the House today will accept a credit card reform bill that was approved by the Senate on Tuesday, with a gun rights amendment added last week. The vote in the Senate on the credit card bill was 90-5, yet another demonstration of how popular this ...
Cap And Trade Details
Obviously, most of you are supposedly too busy or just not disciplined enough to sink your teeth into page after page of legislative language looking for some kind of news nugget on the Democrats' Cap and Trade bill in the House. So today, I will go easy on you, and ...
Dems Cave On Guantanamo
Talk about a full sprint away from the White House. Democrats in Congress are ready to approve plans that would block detainees held at Guantanamo Bay from being transferred to jails in the U.S. Instead of fighting for the idea of closing down the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base jail for terrorism detainees, ...
CIA As Political Punching Bag
If there is one thing you realize quickly as a reporter covering the Congress, it is that lawmakers tend to make very strong statements about something, and then sometimes you find that they said the exact opposite at some other point in the political discussion. In recent days, Rep. Peter ...
Blog Entries for Monday, May 18
Personal Pelosi Prisms
It didn't really surprise me when I saw the results of a poll on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from Rasmussen. 43% say the CIA may have misled Pelosi on waterboarding. 41% say they don't think that happened. That's basically a 50-50 split on maybe the most controversial Democrat these days in the ...
Health Care Options
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee released the first comprehensive review by the Congress of what Democrats might consider in order to pay for their major efforts at health care reform. In a word, it can be described mostly as "taxes." The plan reviews a series of options, big and small. ...
Credit Card Movement
The Senate will try to jump start action today on a bipartisan credit card reform bill that President Obama has said he wants on his desk by the end of the week. It was assumed that the credit card measure would zip through the Senate, but a variety of factors ...
Climate Change Bill, Part 1
As the House Energy and Commerce Committee begins a second day of work on an over 900 page measure on climate change, I wanted to give you a window into the bill and see what you can find in the details. This is the original version of HR. 2454, as ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, May 17
Obama's Notre Dame Speech
Here is the text of President Obama's commencement address at the University of Notre Dame on Sunday in South Bend, Indiana. This transcript was provided by the White House. University of Notre DameSouth Bend, Indiana 3:06 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, congratulations, Class of 2009. (Applause.) ...
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