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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for March 2011
Blog Entries for Tuesday, March 8
Guantanamo Bay Switch
The Obama Administration effort to close the terrorism jail at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base basically died yesterday, as the White House announced that terror trials could resume there.
Budget Cutting Math
We've talked a lot about the budget in recent weeks and how both parties have used Fuzzy Math. Now let's talk about a budget quirk involving earmarks. When the Republicans pushed through a stop gap budget in February that had $61 billion in cuts, the GOP said they were cutting ...
Blog Entries for Monday, March 7
Budget Week Ahead
The clock keeps ticking towards March 18, the next shutdown deadline for the federal government. The betting at this point may not be for much in the way of compromise for this week. Why not? Because Congress mainly works on deadlines. "If you give Congress four weeks, guess what? They'll ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, March 6
More Health Law Waivers
The Obama Administration has quietly issued another 126 waivers to one provision of the Obama health law, putting the total number of waivers now at over one thousand. The latest waivers were issued Friday by the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, a new agency set up by the ...
Blog Entries for Friday, March 4
Senate Democratic Budget Plan
Democrats in the Senate have filed a 350 page amendment to the House GOP budget cutting bill. You can see the details - as highlighted by Democrats - of their plan. Below are highlights of the Senate Democratic proposal: NATIONAL SECURITY Department of Defense The bill includes a separate ...
The Vultures Circle
As Governor Rick Scott of Florida tries to reject over $2 billion in federal aid for high speed rail, Senators from other states have been publicly hoping that Scott succeeds. Why? Because they want the feds to send Florida's high speed rail money to them. That was on display in ...
Fuzzy Budget Math
Over the last few weeks, this blog has called out both parties on their fuzzy budget math, as Republicans and Democrats in the House puffed up the amount of money they were supporting in spending cuts. The GOP started this exercise by claiming that they were cutting $74 billion from ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, March 3
Latest Health Ruling
A federal judge in Florida has issued a stay of his decision that found the Obama health law unconstitutional, but that judge is giving the federal government one week to file its appeal in the case. Here is the decision today from Judge Roger Vinson: IN THE UNITED STATES ...
Next Budget Fight
The gavel had just come down in the Senate on a vote to extend the federal budget by two weeks when Democrats made clear they're not interested in a repeat of that $4 billion cutback plan. "Living with the threat of a shutdown every few weeks is not responsible, and ...
2012 Election Scoreboard
Another Senator has decided not to run for re-election in 2012, as veteran Hawaii Democratic Sen. Daniel Akaka will hang up his legislative cleats. Akaka, whose name is uttered by the Senate reading clerks more than any - because he has been first on the alphabetical list for years - ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, March 2
Next Budget Fight
The gavel had just come down in the Senate on a vote to extend the federal budget by two weeks when Democrats made clear they're not interested in a repeat of that $4 billion cutback plan. "Living with the threat of a shutdown every few weeks is not responsible, and ...
Government Waste
Congressional investigators issued a report on Tuesday which will get a lot of play in the weeks to come about duplicative and wasteful spending in Washington. Whether it makes a difference is another question. The report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) was an indictment both of the Legislative and ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, March 1
Two Week Tango
As Congress moved ahead on a two week stop gap budget that included $4 billion in budget cuts, the big question that was not yet answered was, "What's next?" The first step was House approval of the temporary budget plan on a bipartisan vote of 335-91. 104 Democrats joined all ...
Stop Gap Budget
The House votes today on a two-week stop gap budget for the federal government, which will also include $4 billion in budget cutbacks as demanded by House Republicans. The plan is expected to glide though the House, though it's not clear how many Democrats will vote for the temporary budget, ...
Health Law Opt Out
President Obama threw the nation's Governors a bit of a curve ball on Monday at the White House, as he mixed some funny lines with a few jabs and then offered to let states opt out of the new health law in three years. It was the biggest change of ...
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