President Obama is introduced by Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Chicago on April 14. (REUTERS/Jason Reed) The White House is pushing the Senate’s bipartisan Gang of Six to expedite the rollout of its deficit reduction plan, but it still strikes me as implausible that any kind of fiscal package could [...]
After weeks of bickering over the 2011 budget, when it finally came time to cast ballots nobody seemed quite sure what to do. Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, the man tasked with coaxing his party into backing a bill neither side much liked, leaned against a table on the House floor, nervously jiggling a slip of [...]
Rep. Rob Wittman, the Virginia Republican leading a House subcommittee hearing on the burial scandal at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, noted at one point that the Army had promised to determine the correct location and identity of every person buried at Arlington. “It seems to me that now we have learned that the Army [...]
…starts here. That’s Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (at right), being introduced to a few dozen Republicans at a Manchester, N.H., electronics manufacturing firm yesterday.
The FDA is responsible for the safety of drugs, medical devices, food and cosmetics and has struggled to live up to the job over the last decade, especially in drugs and medical devices. The GAO released a report (pdf) yesterday on FDA efforts to improve medical device safety.
Update, 3:35 PM By a 260-167 vote, the bill has passed the House with bipartisan support. HR 1473 will keep the government open through Sept. 30, the end of the 2011 fiscal year. Fifty-nine Republicans broke with their party to vote against the deal, a spike from the 28 who supported the one-week bridge resolution [...]
Why won’t Willard Mitt Romney release his certificate of live birth? [Via Josh Green]
“So Michael, what are you doing? Explain. Are you going to do another trash article on Trump?” This is how Donald Trump greeted me when I entered his Fifth Avenue office last week. It was, to be clear, an entirely friendly greeting, a feint at playing the tough guy. Trump didn’t trust me, but he [...]
“I rarely heard a speech by a president so shallow, so hyper-partisan and so intellectually dishonest, outside the last couple of weeks of a presidential election where you are allowed to call your opponent anything short of a traitor. That was Charles Krauthammer after Barack Obama’s speech yesterday. And here’s Pistol Pete Wehner: President Obama’s [...]
(By Pete Souza, The White House)
