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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for April 2011
Blog Entries for Wednesday, April 6
Obama On Budget Talks
President Obama met last night with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the budget, looking for ways to strike a deal that would avoid a government shutdown this weekend. While the President said no deal had been struck, he remained optimistic about the chances for ...
Republicans vs EPA
While much of the attention of Congress and the news media has been on a possible budget shutdown, a showdown over the EPA has moves to the front burner of the House and Senate late today. In a coincidence in terms of timing, the House and Senate will both vote ...
All Politics Is Local
A hearing on Tuesday with the head of the U.S. military's Africa Command showcased what makes Congress such an interesting body - no matter the issue, bringing home the bacon is what's important. While some of the Q&A with Gen. Carter Ham centered on military action against Libya, the more ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, April 5
Government Shutdown Memo
The federal government is finally starting to tell workers in Washington, D.C. and around the nation what would happen if no budget deal is reached this week and the government runs out of money on Friday night at midnight. In guidance issued on the internet by the Office of Personnel ...
New Republican Budget
The budget debate will get a little confusing today as Republicans in the U.S. House roll out their own budget plan for next year, even before this year's budget is finished. As President Obama meets with Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) ...
First Health Law Repeal
For the first time today, the Congress will send President Obama a bill that repeals a part of the controversial health reform law from last year. This deals with the provision that tightens income reporting requirements for businesses, what's known as the 1099 tax reporting issue, which small businesses say ...
Blog Entries for Monday, April 4
GOP Plan B
House Republicans have unveiled a "Plan B" on the budget, a one week stop gap spending plan which would also fund the military through the end of the fiscal year. The plan was released by GOP leaders a few hours after House Republicans met behind closed doors to discuss the ...
Government Shutdown Showdown
The finger pointing is in high gear as the calendar counts down to a Friday government shutdown deadline. Will the Congress actually cut a deal and find a way to avoid a shutdown? Both parties spent the weekend pointing the finger of blame at each other, arguing that the other ...
Blog Entries for Saturday, April 2
New Health Law Waivers
The Obama Administration has rolled out another 129 waivers to one provision of the new health reform law, with almost half of those new exemptions going to various union groups. The extra waivers bring the total to 1,168, giving businesses, health plans, unions and others an exemption from a portion ...
Blog Entries for Friday, April 1
Health Law Payments
Facing questions from both parties in the Congress, the Obama Administration has now revealed how it has spent over $1.7 billion on part of the Obama health law, known as the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program. This plan is intended to help companies pay the cost of health care for their ...
GE Gets Obama Health Law Money
Just days after General Electric got some bad press over how the company made huge profits, but didn't pay anything in income taxes, Congress was told the Obama Administration gave the company money to help preserve health benefits for GE retirees. "I understand you gave General Electric $36 million to ...
Power to Declare War
Yes, I know that the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but it sure seems like that phrase hardly matters anymore in the duel between the Legislative and Executive Branch. That's been on display over the past two weeks as U.S. military forces have joined to attack ...
The Senate Stalls
This was supposed to be a big week in the Senate. But if you didn't get here early enough on Monday evening, you missed the only vote of the week. Yes, that's right. Senators returned from an eleven day break and took one vote all week, that on a judicial ...
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