Speaker Boehner, Majority leader Cantor and Majority Whip McCarthy appear before the press at the White House following a lunch with President Obama on February 9. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)
–The House GOP rolls out the specifics of its proposal to cut $74 billion from Obama’s 2011 budget. Conservative members may buck the leadership if and when it comes to the floor.
–Obama will propose $2.5 billion in cuts to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
–He’s planning some prize programs that can get taxpayers off the hook if the initiatives fail.
–Egypt update: The U.S. wrestles with Suleiman.
–Crowley profiles counterterror chief John Brennan in this week’s newsstand issue of TIME, but you can only get the whole shebang in print.
–Here’s the CPAC schedule and what to expect. The kind of ideas you’re liable to see there that you might not expect: Grover Norquist on prison policy.
–Ron Paul will go all Austrian school on the Fed.
–Mitt Romney’s “No Apology” wasn’t unapologetic enough, so he went back and fixed it.
–Obama has been pretty powerful on legislation, but not judicial nominations.
–-All the informed speculation you need on the special election to replace Chris Lee.
–And it’s been beaten to death, but PPACA [puh-pack-uh] really is a mouthful.