It starts–finally–in just a few hours. With the bang of a gavel in the high-tech cavern that is the conference room of the Senate Hart Office Building, the Senate Finance Committee will sit down around a table and confront the question of whether it can actually produce a health reform bill.
On tonight’s Late Show, Dave Letterman asks Barack Obama about the issue of race in the current political climate. “First of all I think it’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election,” says the president, to laughs. Letterman’s comeback is quick. “How long have you been a black man?” more about [...]
President Obama lands at a heliport in lower Manhattan. The President’s entourage of staff, security and press, a total of six helicopters, landed at the Wall Street Landing Zone prior to the meeting of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.
We’ve heard a lot of threats back and forth about the risks of Dems going it alone on health care reform. Here’s a story from me on the challenges for both Democrats and Republicans in flying solo and, in a twofer Monday, here’s another story from me on the 2010 Senate landscape.
For all that Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus moved frustratingly slowly the last five months – especially to those of us standing in the hall in front of his office waiting for an agreement — he’s moving lightning quick to the mark up. The bill that he will be moving through his committee tomorrow will [...]
Today’s Bob Woodward scoop regarding General Stanley McChrystal’s report about the status of the war in Afghanistan is both unsurprising and provocative. McChrystal’s assessment was about as expected. As I reported last week, McChrystal was bequeathed a flawed battle plan by his predecessor David McKiernan–too much chasing after bad guys, not enough protection of the [...]
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