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Blog Entries for Wednesday, April 21
Health Care Money
While health care reform is now law, that doesn't mean the battles have ended in the halls of Congress on the issue, as the Secretary of Health found out Wednesday before a U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee. For Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the hearing was about the budget request of the Health ...
Betting On Movies
Congress holds a hearing today on plans to create a trading market that would allow people to basically place bets on how Hollywood movies will perform at the box office. What - you didn't know that was legal? Yes, even as many state and local governments have fights about whether ...
More On Massa
Democrats got some unwelcome news on the ethics front in Congress on Wednesday, as the House ethics committee voted to set up an investigative subcommittee to review the sexual stories surrounding former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY). "The allegations surrounding former Representative Massa are serious and warrant a full and complete ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, April 20
Senate Nominations Update
Democrats in the Senate tried to call the bluff of Republicans on Tuesday, forcing the GOP to openly object to the approval of dozens of nominations by the Obama Administration to positions in both the Executive and Judicial Branches. While Democrats succeeded in getting final votes on a judge for ...
Wall Street Update
Take a little finger pointing, some negotiations, a little Legislative Chicken and add in the lobbyists of big Wall Street firms, and that's where we stand right now in the Senate on financial reform legislation - it's a work in progress. "I'm heartened to hear that bipartisan talks have resumed ...
GM Money Game
General Motors will make a big splash in the news today by announcing that the automaker will repay several billion dollars loans from the federal government earlier than expected. But it's not really coming out of the GM wallet. The issue came up yesterday at a hearing with the special ...
Executive Branch Pork, Part 9
Today we continue our tour of funds doled out by the federal government, looking at environmental cleanup grants. The money goes to a broad range of programs in many states, often to help with economic redevelopment. Again, this list is not to say that these individual projects are bad or ...
Blog Entries for Monday, April 19
Value Added Tax
The White House tried its best on Monday to defuse press reports that the Obama Administration was actively running the numbers on how much revenue a Value Added Tax could bring in to Uncle Sam, saying it's not in the works at all. "This is not something the President has ...
Senate Nomination Flips
Every Presidential Administration that I have covered - from Reagan to Obama - has had to deal with delays in nominees, whether for the Executive or Judicial Branch, and now we've arrived again at one of those points for this administration. The complaints from the party in power are always ...
Executive Branch Pork, Part 8
Yesterday we looked at grants to firefighters around the country, today we'll see where tax dollars are flowing for economic development plans through the Department of Commerce, as we try to give you an idea of how the federal govermment hands out grant money. At issue today is money that ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, April 18
Obama & The Press
For many people, the working assumption is that most of the press corps in Washington, D.C. is in the bag for any liberal cause, and right now especially supportive of the President Obama . But on the ground, it's a much different view. On Sunday, White House Press Secretary Robert ...
Blog Entries for Friday, April 16
Congratulate & Commend
The U.S. House takes many votes on resolutions which congratulate or commend different groups for their achievements. While many are non-controversial, those dealing with high profile college sports programs are interesting to look at. Last week the House voted on three of those:* Commending the Boise State University Broncos football ...
Executive Branch Pork, Part 7
It is time for another installment of Executive Branch Pork, money that's doled out to local projects around the country - not by the Congress - but by the current Administration. This is another group of firefighting grants handed out by FEMA. Remember, just because a program is listed here ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, April 15
Supreme Court Visit
Thursday brought one of my favorite Congressional hearings, as two Justices from the U.S. Supreme Court went before a House Appropriations Subcommittee to ask for money to fund the Court's budget for Fiscal Year 2011. It's always sort of an odd scene, because here is a co-equal branch of government ...
Some SCOTUS Warmup
We may get a bit of a warmup session on a Supreme Court nomination today in the Senate Judiciary Committee, as that panel meets to hear testimony from a controversial nominee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Most of you probably haven't heard one bit about the Liu nomination, ...
Jobless Benefits Advance
Once again last night, we saw a vivid demonstration from the Press Gallery of how Congress can suddenly act after days of inaction, as an $18 billion jobless benefits bill gained final House and Senate approval. The revised plan would extend until June 2 both jobless and COBRA health benefits, ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, April 14
Health Probe Audible
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has cancelled a hearing scheduled for later this month on major companies who took big earnings charges in anticipation of higher costs under the new health care reform law. "Waxman Inquisition cancelled" trumpeted conservatives like Michelle Malkin who had blasted Waxman for putting on nothing less ...
NASA Budget 2.0
President Obama flies to Cape Canaveral today to lay out his new and improved plans for NASA, after his initial calls for major changes and cuts in certain space programs were panned by lawmakers in both political parties in the Congress. The White House played up today's Obama visit to ...
Congress & Tax Day
I have covered a lot of news events over the past 25 years on Capitol Hill that have been very interesting. But one area where it has been almost all talk and no action is on tax reform. The last time that Congress undertook a substantive effort to reform the ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, April 13
Rep. Massa Is Back
It seemed like the story of former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) was just going to fade away, but a former staffer has now filed a sexual harassment complaint against the ex-Congressman, which has Republicans demanding a fresh review by the House Ethics Committee. The legal complaint by a former aide ...
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