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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider
A confusing budget week in Washington
If you pay close attention this week to news about the budget in Congress, it will be okay if you mix yourself a stiff drink by Wednesday or so to deal with what might seem like a series of confusing series of budget plans from the House and Senate. First, ...
Congress moves to keep Saturday mail delivery
I have often written about how difficult it can be to decipher what Congress does in legislation, and that was demonstrated yet again this week in the post-sequester-government budget bill that was approved by the House. What was in that bill? Maybe the question should also be, what wasn't in ...
The sequester comes to Capitol Hill
While the White House stuck by its decision to scrap public tours because of automatic budget cuts, those who work in Congress will see a different decision on cuts, as House and Senate officials announced a series of security changes because of spending reductions. In a letter sent to lawmakers ...
Drone questions spur over 12 hour Senate filibuster
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) surprised the Senate on Wednesday with the longest filibuster in over twenty years, using almost 13 hours of time on the Senate floor to demand more information and answers from the Obama Administration on whether drones could be used against Americans - on U.S. soil - ...
House speeds up vote on post-sequester funding bill
Even as a winter storm hits the Washington, D.C. area, the U.S. House is to vote by Wednesday afternoon on a Republican plan that is designed to sand down some of the rough edges of $85 billion in across the board budget cuts, and fund the government through the rest ...
U.S. House members face office budget cut
As members of the Congress argue about across the board budget cuts from the sequester, spending figures from the House of Representatives show some lawmakers will have an easy time dealing with an 8.2% cut in their office budgets, while others will have to take some belt-tightening measures in 2013. ...
GOP lays out post-sequester funding bill
Embracing almost all of the automatic budget cuts that kicked in last Friday for Uncle Sam, Republicans in the House unveiled a plan on Monday afternoon that funds the military and VA for the rest of this fiscal year, and extends a temporary budget plan for the rest of the ...
Looking for sequester answers and details
As I spent the weekend digging through the 83 page sequester report issued on Friday night by the White House, it was obvious that many readers and listeners had a lot of questions about how $85 billion in budget cuts were being administered. And it was obvious from comments to ...
The sequester cuts become real
With the stroke of a pen, President Obama set in motion on Friday night $85 billion in automatic, across the board budget cuts in this year's budget, cuts that the President himself labeled "dumb" at an impromptu news conference in the White House Briefing Room. "And let’s be clear. None ...
White House meeting produces no sequester deal
As expected, there was no magic solution unveiled after a meeting Friday morning at the White House between Congressional leaders and the President, as both sides seem headed for a lengthy battle over how to deal with $85 billion in automatic budget cuts. "I told them these cuts will ...
Waiting for the budget cuts to hit Capitol Hill
There are some terms bouncing around the halls of Congress right now that aren't too familiar to those who work in the House and Senate; words like layoffs, buyouts and furloughs as the Legislative Branch prepares to deal with their share of $85 billion in across the board automatic budget ...
Here come the automatic cuts
Seventeen months after approving a debt limit deal which included across the board budget cuts as a last resort for deficit control, Congress adjourned for the weekend without taking any action on the sequester, as $85 billion in budget cuts will start going into effect on Friday night. "Americans know ...
White House quarrels with press on sequester
Reporters in recent days have been taking a much more skeptical view of White House claims related to how automatic budget cuts will impact Americans in coming weeks, as reporters on Wednesday again tangled at a briefing with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney over the central issue of whether ...
GAO reports on travel by Attorney General, FBI Director
Congressional investigators report that the feds spent $1.5 million over four years just to fly a plane to the main airport in Washington, D.C., in order to put that aircraft into position to then fly the Attorney General and FBI Director on both official and private trips. Overall, the tab ...
More wrangling over sequester, but no deal
After a closed door meeting with GOP leaders on Wednesday, rank and file Republicans in the House signaled their approval of plans to push ahead next week with a bill to fund the operations of the government, a plan which would also maintain the $85 billion in budget cuts in ...
Senate Democrats roll out sequester bill
Senate Democrats have unveiled a bill dealing with pending automatic budget cuts which would ward off some of the cuts by focusing spending reductions on farm and defense programs, and also includes tax increases on wealthy Americans and the oil and gas industry. "It would replace half of the first ...
Release of illegal immigrants irks GOP
In a move that could inflame partisan tensions over both automatic budget cuts and efforts to move immigration reform legislation through the Congress, the Obama Administration has started releasing some illegal immigrants now being held by the feds. This was the story from the Associated Press earlier today that confirmed ...
More questions about automatic budget cuts
As the deadline approaches on $85 billion in automatic cuts to the federal budget this Friday, there is one question that keeps getting repeated by my listeners and readers - are these cuts real? Again, I will say that they are real cuts in the short term. Really. "I ...
White House goes state by state on sequester
Rejecting assertions of fear mongering, the White House on Sunday rolled out details of how $85 billion in automatic budget cuts scheduled to hit on Friday would hit all fifty states and Washington, D.C., painting a picture of job losses, economic hardship, health troubles and education setbacks. "Unless Congress acts ...
Not all budget cuts are created equal
As Washington, D.C. furiously plans for $85 billion in budget cuts that could kick in starting this Friday, most federal employees will not feel an immediate change, as any furloughs won't begin until April. That's because under federal law, workers get a 30 day notice of possible furloughs, and they ...
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