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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for January 2011
Blog Entries for Thursday, January 6
Constitutional Miscues
Thursday was supposed to be historic with a House reading of the Constitution and work on health reform repeal. Instead, parts of the Constitution were skipped and two Republicans voted without being sworn in. The miscue on the Constitution came on a day that Republicans were trumpeting the first full ...
Health Repeal Battle
The House is expected to take the first step on this Friday to set up a vote next week that would repeal the Obama health reform law, as the debate grabbed the early spotlight in this new Congress. When asked if Democrats would allow such a bill to come up ...
Health Repeal Veto Threat
The White House has issued its reasons for opposing a Republican effort in the House to repeal the Obama health reform law, threatening a veto if the bill makes it through the Congress. Here is the release from the White House Office of Management and Budget. The last line has ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, January 5
The Day After
With the House now in the hands of Republicans, GOP leaders will press ahead with their budget cutting plans, starting off by taking a symbolic meat cleaver to their own budgets. The plan up for a vote today would cut 5% from lawmaker budgets, resulting in a savings of $35 ...
112th Congress Scene
As a reporter, the first day of a new Congress is always a frustrating day, because there are so many stories that could be told, but there just isn't enough time. Obviously, the big story was Republicans taking charge of the House, with John Boehner becoming Speaker.But the hallways of ...
GOP Nixes Some Transparency
House Republicans have decided not to move ahead with plans to post lamwaker attendance records from committees on the internet, a blow to calls for more transparency in Congress. The plan had originally been part of a new rules package offered up by Republicans before Christmas.It was taken out of ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, January 4
More Congressional Change
It was another busy day of walking the halls of Congress Tuesday, looking for newly elected members of Congress and trying to snap some interesting photos for you. Maybe some of you have heard me talk about the "cages" that members in the Cannon House Office Building can use for ...
Speaker John Boehner
For Republicans, this is their day, as the GOP takes charge in the U.S. House of Representatives, with Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) becoming the new Speaker of the House. The signature scene today in the House will be outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi handing the gavel to Boehner, marking his transition ...
President Obama Returns
President Obama made a little news early this morning, as he took the Air Force One Red-Eye back to Washington, D.C. following the end of his Hawaiian vacation. Here is the White House Pool Report courtesy of Carole Lee of Politico:- NEWS: President Obama said he hopes incoming House Speaker ...
Blog Entries for Monday, January 3
Health Repeal & More
House Republicans last night rolled out their bill to repeal the Obama Administration health reform law, using just two pages to try to scrap the signature achievement of Democrats from 2010. The goal of the bill couldn't be any more clear than the description of the measure:"To repeal the job-killing ...
Health Reform Repeal Bill
Republicans in the U.S. House have decided to force a vote next week on a two page, GOP plan that would repeal the Obama Administration's health reform law. The plan would not pick and choose what should be repealed from the law - it would do away with all of ...
Congressional New Year
For many members of Congress, it's just another work day. But for those newly-elected lawmakers who will be sworn in for the first time on Wednesday, it was a busy Monday on Capitol Hill. As I cruised around the hallways of the Cannon and Longworth House Office Buildings, it quickly ...
House Dems Pushback
Democrats in the House are blasting the GOP on a variety of fronts on this first Monday of January, going after Republicans on tax cuts for the rich, health reform repeal and more. The first fight that's taking place this week in the House is consideration of a new package ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, January 2
Different D.C. Dynamic
As President Obama gets his internal clock adjusted this week to Eastern Time following his family vacation in Hawaii, he will be confronted by a different dynamic, a divided U.S. Congress. The House goes over to the Republicans as the 112th Congress convenes on Wednesday. While the Senate stays in ...
Week Of Change
It is a big week in the House of Representatives, as a new Congress arrives with Republicans ready to take charge, with Rep. John Boehner becoming the new Speaker on Wednesday. Some of the change will officially occur today, as new members of the House and Senate get the keys ...
New House Members
What's the great line from a baseball game? "Program! Program! Can't tell your players without a program!" So here is your list of the 94 new House members in the 112th Congress. One real "inside the Capitol" piece of change is that because Democrats are moving to the minority, they ...
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