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Blog Entries for Wednesday, April 13
Obama Speech Text
Here is the prepared transcript of President Obama's speech on his long term budget plans at George Washington University in Washington, D.C, as provided to reporters by the White House. = April 13, 2011 Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery The Country We Believe ...
Shuttle Losers Demand Investigation
The final decision of NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to award four Space Shuttles to four different museums garnered the expected reaction from members of Congress, especially those who saw their cities passed over by the space agency. But most lawmakers are expressing their disappointment - except in Ohio, where the ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, April 12
"None Of The Funds"
The budget deal struck on government funding for the rest of this fiscal year has a series of spending restrictions on various arms of the Obama Administration. Some may make sense to you. Others show just how controlling the Congress can be at times. The bill has the phrase "none ...
Reading The Budget Deal
I always chuckle when I hear people talk about the need to "read the bill" because I know full well most people on Capitol Hill could read legislation and not understand what's in it. A perfect example is the budget deal worked out last Friday night, which averted a government ...
Cutbacks In Budget Deal
Here is a list of budget cuts in the deal struck late Friday night that funds the government through the end of the Fiscal Year. This list was provided by the House Appropriations Committee: - FY 2011 CONTINUING RESOLUTION REDUCTIONS (in millions of dollars) Reductions below DO NOT include the ...
Budget Deal Fine Print
It was close to 2 am on Tuesday when the House Appropriations Committee finally filed the details of a bill that will fund the federal government through the end of the fiscal year. The plan has a number of cuts, as it gets rid of a variety of programs. Here ...
Debt Limit Politics
Even before the ink was dry on a budget deal from last weekend that averted a government shutdown, the White House was drawing a line in the sand over the next big battle, raising the nation's debt limit. "What I'm saying is that we support a clean piece of legislation," ...
Blog Entries for Monday, April 11
Budget Deal Details
It's been over two days since Congressional leaders and President Obama announced a deal to avert a federal government shutdown. We still don't have the details. Staffers on the House Appropriations Committee are still hashing out the legislative language of the agreement, and are not expected to file their final ...
Boehner vs Tea Party
The political theme of recent months has been that Tea Party lawmakers in the Republican Party would drive a huge wedge into the GOP and possibly undermine Speaker John Boehner. I keep reading in the newspaper and listening to people talk on TV and radio and on the internet about ...
Four Budget Madness
Things might get a little confusing in the news from Washington, D.C. this week on the budget front, as we deal with a variety of budgetary offerings. First let's start with the temporary budget plan approved by lawmakers just after midnight Friday night/Saturday morning, which averted a government shutdown. That ...
Blog Entries for Saturday, April 9
Who Voted No
There were 70 members of the House who voted against a one-week plan to fund the government while the final details are worked out on a budget for the rest of this fiscal year. Who were they? The House Seventy were a classic mix of liberals and conservatives, as the ...
Budget Deal - What's Next
If you missed it, the House and Senate narrowly avoided a government shutdown late on Friday night, as they agreed to a one week stop gap budget to keep the federal government running. This weekend, staffers from the House Appropriations Committee will put a deal that cuts $39 billion in ...
Blog Entries for Friday, April 8
The Government Shutdown
I've walked the halls all day in the Capitol, trying hard to figure what's happening right now in the Congress, as the minutes tick by towards a midnight Friday deadline. Some signs are good, some signs are not. President Obama has scrapped his weekend trip to Williamsburg, Virginia with his ...
Congressional Shutdown Pay
Speaker John Boehner has sent a letter to his colleagues saying that he will return to the Treasury any pay that he gets during a government shutdown. Here is the text of the letter as provided by the Speaker's office: = Members, the Resident Commissioner, Delegates, Committee Chairmen, and House ...
The Budget Process
A lot of fingers are being pointed in both parties right now over the budget impasse in the Congress. It's only natural. But it would be nice if both parties admitted they are part of the problem. Yes, all of this battling right now is being done on a budget ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, April 7
Government Shutdown Details
Examples of Services That Would Be Affected The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) would not endorse any single-family mortgage loans or have staff available to process and approve new multifamily loans. FHA single-family lending represents a market share of more than 20 percent of overall loan volume (home purchases and re-financing). ...
Obama-No Deal Yet
President Obama spoke to reporters on Thursday night, after another session of budget talks with Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Mr. Obama's message was that there was no budget deal as yet, but that some progress had been made. Here are his remarks, as provided by ...
Budget Veto Threat
The White House has issued a veto threat against a Republican plan that would extend the federal budget for one week, make $12 billion in cuts and fully fund the military for the rest of this fiscal year. Here is the release from the White House Office of Management and ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, April 6
What Stays Open
The big parlor game in Washington, D.C. right now is figuring out what departments will stay open and which agencies will mainly close their doors if the government runs out of money tomorrow night. It may seem odd, but there are no simple answers on this. For example, during a ...
One Week Gambit
Republicans in the House are hoping they can put the onus for any government shutdown directly on Democrats today, by approving a one-week stop gap budget to fund federal operations while budget negotiations continue. Initially, many Republicans said they would not vote for another budget extension, but with full year ...
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