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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider
More change in the U.S. Senate
Another seat in the U.S. Senate will be in play in the 2014 mid-term elections, as Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) will reportedly announce on Tuesday that he is not running for re-election, presenting Republicans with a prime opportunity to pick up a seat in the Senate, and giving Democrats one ...
IRS backpedals from Star Trek video
After reports surfaced in recent days that the Internal Revenue Service had spent $60,000 to make a Star Trek parody video for use at training conferences, the IRS over the weekend apologized for how your tax dollars were spent. The IRS said in a statement that the "space parody video ...
FAA to close 149 air traffic towers
The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that it will close 149 air traffic control towers at smaller airports nationwide due to budget cutbacks associated with $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that hit the federal government on March 1. The original list of possible closures issued on February 22 was ...
Senate Democrats officially unveil gun legislation
Taking the first official step to set up a full Senate debate in April on gun legislation, Democrats on Friday formally unveiled a package of gun bills, featuring a plan to require background checks "for every firearm sale," but the bill does not include two key gun control provisions on ...
Different views on Saturday mail delivery
As the Congress finally finished work on the 2013 budget for the federal government on Thursday, there were much different conclusions in the halls of Capitol Hill on what it meant for the effort by the U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday delivery of first class mail. Those who don't ...
Pentagon delays furlough notices
Hours after the U.S. House sent President Obama a final budget for the current fiscal year, the Pentagon announced it was taking time to review how that budget might impact plans to furlough hundreds of thousands of civilian defense workers for up to 22 days between April and the end ...
Senate finally ends budget stalemate
Ending almost eight days of limited debate on a bill that funds federal government operations through the end of the fiscal year, the Senate on Wednesday approved a nearly $1 trillion budget bill for Uncle Sam, even as the Congress started work on next year's budget outline. With House approval ...
Immigration reform pushed back in Congress
With a small group of Senators still working on an immigration reform plan, the chairman of a key Senate committee said Wednesday he does not see his panel doing anything on the controversial subject until at least May. "Without legislative language, there is nothing for the Judiciary Committee to consider ...
Senate stalls out on funding bill
Just a few days ago, it seemed like the Senate was poised for a wide open debate on a bill to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, with dozens of amendments filed by both parties and interesting votes on the horizon dealing with budgetary choices in ...
Sen. Rand Paul speech on immigration reform
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) laid out this thoughts on immigration reform in a spech today, which was billed by initial news reports as one where Paul endorsed a path to citizenship. But digging into the details of the speech, that headline may not be so clear. "Conservatives, myself included, ...
Sequester hits Uncle Sam unevenly
While the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester are chopping money at the same percentage rate from different federal agencies, a review of options to deal with the cuts shows the impact of those spending reductions varies greatly between federal departments. For example, civilian defense workers - as many ...
Still no nominee for Commerce Secretary
As President Obama announced another choice on Monday for his second term Cabinet by choosing a new Secretary of Labor, one position in his Cabinet remains curiously unfilled, as it has for now for almost nine months. That job is Secretary of Commerce, which was last occupied by John Bryson. ...
GSA scraps two conferences
With tight budgets in the wake of the sequester, the General Services Administration has decided to cancel two conferences scheduled for later this year in a bid to save money. "As federal agencies are closely examining their budgets and making tough spending cuts, GSA has made the decision to suspend ...
Deep in the Senate fine print
We haven't had too many times in recent years where a budget bill has been on the floor of the U.S. Senate with a wide open amendment process, so as Senators try to finish work on a bill that funds the government for the rest of this fiscal year, there ...
No end to debate on sequester impact
It has now been two weeks since automatic budget cuts kicked in, and Political Washington is still waiting to see whether there will be a dramatic impact as forecast by Democrats, or if ominous predictions made by the Obama Administration - and ridiculed by many Republicans - won't exactly come ...
Supreme Court expresses concern over sequester
Appearing for a yearly budget hearing before the Congress, two U.S. Supreme Court Justices voiced concern over automatic budget cuts that hit the federal government earlier this month, arguing it will have a negative impact on the Judicial Branch. "Over the long term, particularly for the courts as a whole ...
Senate Democrats detail budget outline
In a clear contrast with a House Republican budget plan, Democrats in the Senate set out their own ideas on how best to run the government, proposing $975 billion in tax increases over the next ten years in a spending blueprint that held no hint of a balanced budget. And ...
Feds draft lengthy forms for health insurance coverage
The Obama Administration is currently drafting a lengthy application form to be used by Americans who need to buy health insurance in the future, getting ready for the time when the Obama health reforms kick in for real next year. The draft forms were revealed Tuesday by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of ...
Digging into the GOP budget outline
The budget plan unveiled by House Republicans on Tuesday would balance the budget in ten years, but it also would allow for the budget to keep growing after two initial years of spending reductions in the discretionary budget. "We believe we owe the American people a balanced budget," Ryan said ...
Obama charm offensive hits Capitol Hill
In the press galleries on Capitol Hill over the years, we have seen a lot of trips to the U.S. Capitol by Presidents of both parties, but none of my colleagues can remember a series of visits like we will have over the next three days by President Obama. "He’s ...
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