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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for June 2011
Blog Entries for Tuesday, June 7
Message To Weiner
In the ways of Congress, the message sent by Democratic Leaders on Tuesday to embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) was subtle but straightforward, as top Democrats made no public effort to ease the furor over the admission that he sent women sexual images over the internet. House Democratic Leader Nancy ...
Just Like You
People love to express their outrage about the Congress. How can lawmakers spend so much money? How can they run up huge deficits? How can they act so stupid and get caught up in scandals? Aren't they supposed to behave better since we elected them? The simple answer is, "No." ...
Senate Budget Wrangling
Earlier this week, I wrote about how freshmen Republicans weren't exactly knocking down the doors on the floor of the House to cut the budget. Today, we look at how the Senate isn't exactly knocking down the doors on much of anything. While the two major political parties are duking ...
Blog Entries for Monday, June 6
Weiner Admits All
As more photographs emerged on the internet Monday of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), the embattled New York Democrat tried to save his political career by admitting he had lied repeatedly about reports that he sent sexually explicit material over the internet to women who were not his wife. In a ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, June 5
Where's The Tea Party?
The debate last week in the U.S. House on the first budget bill for next year was interesting for one major reason - only a handful of newly elected Republicans were involved in any efforts on the House floor to further cut government spending. As the House voted to trim ...
TSA Budget Skewer
While the Republican-led House balked at the idea of deeper cuts last week in a spending bill for homeland defense, lawmakers did take a shot the budget for aviation security. "I would like to see much more dramatic cuts in TSA," said Rep. John Mica (R-FL), the Chairman of the ...
Blog Entries for Friday, June 3
House Votes on Libya
The House today approved a non-binding resolution expressing bipartisan frustration on Libya, demanding that President Obama give Congress a variety of information about U.S. involvement in the NATO mission against the Qaddafi regime. Lawmakers also defeated a resolution offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), which would have forced a withdrawal ...
Libyan Frustration in Congress
The Republican-controlled House will try to leave town for a 10 day break by sending a message to the White House on U.S. participation in the NATO strikes against Libya, with votes on a pair of resolutions. The late decision to hold a debate on Libya came as Speaker John ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, June 2
Budget Baby Steps
For months, the talk in Republican circles on Capitol Hill has been about trillions of dollars in budget cuts. But when the opportunity arose for big cuts this week, Republicans joined with Democrats in the House to reject a big chunk of savings. The first budget bill dealt with homeland ...
Sort of Walking the Walk
As the House began work Wednesday on the first spending bill for next year, there was lots of talk on the floor about the need for big budget cuts, but no real groundswell to further slash a budget measure for homeland defense. At least not yet. The debate on Wednesday, ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, June 1
Anthony Weiner-Gate
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) spent another day under the media microscope on Wednesday over who sent a photograph on his Twitter account to a much younger woman, as the Democratic Congressman again sidestepped some basic questions about his story. In the process, the news media on Capitol Hill began to ...
Debt Limit Vote
Republicans in the Congress sent their message last night to the White House about an increase in the debt limit, as the House voted 318-97 against raising the nation's borrowing limit by over $2 trillion. "Tonight's vote shows the House is listening to the American people," said Speaker John Boehner, ...
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