Obama’s Remarks
Read along after the jump. Members named: John Dingell, John McCain, Ted Kennedy, Orrin Hatch and Chuck Grassley.
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Dodd Stays at Banking*
Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has decided to stay at the helm of the Banking Committee. Dodd was the next-most-senior senator on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee after Ted Kennedy – whose desk remains shrouded in black on the Senate floor and adourned with flowers as colleagues mourn his passing. Dodd could’ve …
Pelosi’s Box
Forget the Senate, here’s a story from me about what’s going on in the House on health care. House leaders have pulled back from their once-aggressive schedule. “I have no timetable” for passage of a bill, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters yesterday. While eschewing the idea that they would wait for the Senate to …
Re: Health Care: Hitting the Re-Set Button
Following up on Karen’s excellent post on President Obama forthcoming address to a joint session of Congress on health care reform. Obama has always fallen back on his rhetorical gifts – and, generally, it has worked, even when Rev. Wright looked to doom his campaign. Next Wednesday he will again give what will surely be an inspirational …
Bipartisan Health Care Talks Push On
Just when you thought the vultures had landed on a bipartisan health care deal, seems the three GOP senators haven’t totally walked away from the table. First, there was the news this morning on Olympia Snowe’s talks with the White House on a compromise and then Mike Enzi put out this statement:
“My position has been consistent from
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Vicki Kennedy Won’t Run
Despite her husband’s former colleagues’ obvious admiration for her grace under fire this past week (former Senator John Breaux — a friend of Kennedy’s and of the Reggie’s who hail from the same hometown — went so far as to tell me that, “She knows the players very well and that goes a very long way with helping you be successful in …
Teddy’s Goodbye
Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s funeral at Boston’s Mission Church was a sumptuous affair with incense and tears, communion and Yo-Yo Ma, Placido Domingo and laughter. And a presidential eulogy. The coffin came late and the church sat in reverent silence waiting for Teddy’s arrival. “He would’ve adored it,” said historian Dorris Kearns …
The Senior Senator from Massachusetts
I had some time with John Kerry yesterday at the wake. Here’s my story.
Kennedy’s Funeral
I’m sitting in the back pew of Boston’s Mission Hill church where guests have already half filled the space two hours before the program is slated to start. The church is going through sound checks as mourners shake off their umbrellas and flick raindrops from their black and blue blazers: Tropical Storm Danny hit Boston in force during …
Kennedy in Repose
I don’t think anybody could do a better job than the Boston Globe’s coverage of Senator Ted Kennedy’s motorcade. Now lying in repose at the JFK Presidential Library, Kennedy’s body — in Irish tradition — will never be left alone: family and friends will take turns through the next three days holding vigil.
All along the route, …
Kennedy Leaves Hyannis Port
With his beloved blue-hulled 50-ft. schooner, The Mya, twisting on her anchor in front of the Kennedy compound – her flags at half mast – Senator Ted Kennedy’s body was loaded into a hearse at 1:47pm to begin his final voyage in this world. A Washington DC honor guard made up of nine members representing all branches of the
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Hyannis Port: The Scene
Greetings from Hyannis Port. Here’s a story on the scene here. And, belatedly, as I was on vacation last week, here’s my story on John Kerry in this week’s dead tree edition that I think pretty well illustrates how Senator Kennedy spent much of the last year (thanks for the shout out, Joe).
While most people have been wide eyed or …
Obama’s Cupcakes
From TIME’s Sophia Yan:
President Obama dropped by the White House briefing room today on his 48th birthday. With cupcakes in hand, a sprightly Obama wished Happy Birthday to another celebrating reveler, White House correspondent Helen Thomas of Hearst newspapers, who turned 89 today.
Grinning broadly, Obama plopped down in the front
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