The Slaughter Solution? Another name might be the Dreier Doctrine.
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Congress Project (and former staff director of the House Rules Committee), took a look at this whole business of self-executing rules a few years back. He argues that it’s not at all unusual in these partisan …
I’m convinced there are no new arguments in Washington; the only thing that changes is the side that is making them.
As House Democratic leaders consider their options for passing the health care bill, there is going to be a lot of talk about the use of the “self-executing rule” — or, as Republicans are taking to calling it, because …
After all the missed deadlines, I’m hesitant to say this, but here goes:
Next week is the week.
The House Democratic leadership now expects to schedule a vote on the Senate health care bill and send it to President Obama’s desk next Friday, March 19, or Saturday, March 20.
After that, assuming the bill passes, the House will …
From our White House photo blog:
I’m sure that, as always, our commenters will have great suggestions for captions. But my own on this one:
The Obama girls on their revised Spring Break trip.
UPDATE: Commenter grape_crush FTW:
“Lilliputian Ambassador’s Helicopter Finds Alternate Landing Pad.”
Okay, call it more of the same. But this story by David Hilzenrath (page A4 of the Washington Post) is an important reminder that it’s ugly out there, even for those of us lucky enough to have the very best coverage:
Then again, there’s this from one of today’s White House pool reports:
Subject: WH print pool 4
Left hotel at 11:58 am. Unidentified woman in the crowd appeared to be trying to join the pool after the speech but was stopped by agents posted at the hotel.
Arrived at WH at 12:07 pm after uneventful ride.
This one leaves me speechless:
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the White House.
Three decades later, she froze to death at age 75, a solitary figure living in a
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The New York Post reports:
Two sources in the golf community have told The Post that Ari Fleischer, the former presidential advisor to George W. Bush and the man who was brought in to help repair the steroid-shattered image of Mark McGwire, has been huddling with Woods, plotting a strategy for his return to golf — at the Arnold
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The White House Correspondents Association followed up with the White House on my experience the other day, and I now have something of an official explanation of why I was repeatedly denied access to the citizens in the audience at President Obama’s health care speech near Philadelphia. The interference, I am told, was “unintentional …
In the new issue of dead-tree TIME, I take a look at what, for my money, is the most fascinating Senate race in 2010. I hope you’ll read the whole story here. (Or, even better, in the magazine.) It explores the race in the context of how much has changed in politics since Arlen Specter made his leap to the Democratic Party last …
From our White House Photo Blog.:
P.S.: This totally confirms what I thought at the time. That dress added lbs. I liked the swearing-in outfit much better.
Interesting post, Joe.
Is it possible that Rush Limbaugh’s objection–after his recent positive experience in Hawaii, the only state with an employer mandate–is that Obama’s health care plan isn’t socialist enough?
Consider this statement from Rushbo:
I don’t know. I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years
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When I go to political events, I generally like to talk to people who attend them. You learn a lot that way.
Not today. I arrived at the President’s health care speech at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., about 45 minutes early, hoping I might chat with some of the Pennsylvanians who were here. No such luck. The press was stuck …
