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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for May 2011
Blog Entries for Friday, May 20
Judicial Filibusters II
As expected, Republicans were able to block the nomination of Goodwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the first time a Senate filibuster has derailed a judicial nominee of President Obama. "The partisan filibuster of Goodwin Liu’s nomination is another example of Republicans’ shifting standards on judicial nominations," ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, May 19
Military Sticker Shock
With lots of talk of dire budget choices, members of a Senate committee found out Thursday that the military may have to shell out hundreds of billions of dollars more for the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter project. At a hearing, one senior Pentagon official acknowledged the increase in costs of ...
Energy Policy Gridlock
As expected, the U.S. Senate was left in gridlock this week after energy bills from Democrats and Republicans were blocked by the other party, as lawmakers dutifully pointed fingers at each other over high oil and gas prices. Democrats actually received more votes (52) for their plan, which would have ...
Judicial Filibusters, 2011 Version
When Democrats blocked a series of judicial nominees from President George W. Bush, many Republicans denounced the move, arguing filibusters of judges went against the Constitution. Democrats at that time talked in stentorian tones about how they were upholding the Constitution and dutifully following their power of advise and consent. ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, May 18
Air Force One
A Presidential flight to Connecticut had something different today, as Air Force One was forced to abort its landing at Bradley International Airport because of bad weather. The White House Pool report said, "FAA confirming a missed approach at 950a. Blames bad visibility. Says AF-1 had to go around and ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, May 17
White House Grumbling
Reporters at the White House took the rare step on Tuesday of publicly registering displeasure with a lack of access to President Obama for questions, noting that it has been a month since Mr. Obama took a query from the press corps that covers him on a daily basis. The ...
The Budget Gang
It wasn't really a shock when news filtered out on Tuesday that a bipartisan group of six Senators were floundering in their effort to come up with a grand political bargain to cut government spending and lower the deficit in the future. The talks didn't seem to be going far ...
2012 GOP Review
The pace has certainly picked up over the last ten days on the Republican side of the race for President, with controversial statements by Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, and the decisions of Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump not to run for the White House in 2012. And all the ...
Obama Budget Hole
When President Obama submitted his budget to the Congress back in mid-February, there was a hole in the budget when it came to funding for roads and bridges - three months later, that hole is still there. “Bipartisan financing for Transportation Trust Fund,” was the wording in the Obama budget, ...
Blog Entries for Monday, May 16
What Budget Cuts
Remember the big budget deal that narrowly averted a government shutdown in April? The one that was going to save $39 billion from this year's budget? Well, it turns out those numbers were a farce. The Congressional Budget Office reported yesterday that the budget deal will save $122 billion in ...
Debt Limit Manuevers
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has sent Congressional leaders a letter spelling out how he will shift money around to deal with the nation's debt limit, which has now hit the statutory ceiling of $14.3 trillion. To do that, Geithner says the federal government will no longer make its full investments ...
White House Moves on Drilling
The White House changed course over the weekend on offshore oil and gas exploration, dropping some of the efforts to delay drilling permits in the wake of the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. President Obama used his Saturday radio address to announce the changes, which came after ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, May 15
San Francisco Health Waivers
As I was researching the latest batch of waivers issued by the feds to one provision of the Obama health reform law, I was struck by how many of these waivers are going to the state of California. Yes, California is by far the biggest state in the U.S., with ...
Blog Entries for Friday, May 13
Some Fine Print
As two House spending subcommittees start work on legislation for next year's federal budget, a look through those two bills gives us a little view into why these measures are more than just about dollars and cents. The House Appropriations Committee begins work today on budget bills for Homeland Security ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, May 12
Put Your Pants On And Go Home
The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee on Thursday publicly released a preliminary report on ex-Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), who resigned last week rather than face what could have been expulsion from the Senate for a variety of ethical misdeeds. The headline was most certainly the news that Senate investigators have asked ...
Big Oil Pinata
After watching oil prices rocket up to an average of $4/gallon, Democrats in the Senate will bring back a classic piece of legislative theater today, as top executives from five major oil companies will go before a Senate committee for questioning. At issue? Their big profits of recent months, as ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, May 11
$30 Billion In Cuts
Lately there has been a lot of talk in Republican circles about cutting trillions of dollars in spending, as Speaker John Boehner and other Republicans demand large spending reductions. But if you look at the roadmap released on Wednesday afternoon for next year's spending bills in the House, the goal ...
Budget Maneuvering
As President Obama hosts Senate Democrats this afternoon for a discussion on the budget, there's no clear direction to a battle over spending that seems to be lacking one important item - common ground. Senate Democrats on Tuesday were floating the idea of a $4 trillion plan, split evenly with ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, May 10
Newt In 2012
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich will make it official today that he is running for President. Actually winning the Republican nomination in 2012 would certainly surprise many political observers in Washington, D.C. Gingrich's official entry adds a little steam to a GOP race that so far has been very ...
Obama On The Trail
Along with making a speech on the need for immigration reform in El Paso, President Obama stopped off in a favorite spot for Democrats, raising about $2 million in a pair of campaign events in Austin, Texas on Tuesday night. Unlike many of his fund raisers so far in 2011, ...
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