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By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWhether Donald Trump actually runs for president remains an open question, but the New York tycoon and reality show host certainly is milking the speculation for all its worth. Now he is miffed with Sen. Lamar Alexander for having the temerity to say that Trump "has absolutely no chance of winning" a White House race. Alexander, who ran for president in 1996 and 2000, told CNN that Trump is "famous for being famous." Alexander himself is at least semi-famous for being the former secretary of education and president of the University of Tennessee. Trump, who flirted with presidential politics ...
Senate Republicans Hint They'll Play Nice With Democrats on Economics
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailySenate Republican leaders signaled Thursday that bipartisan agreement with Democrats might be possible on a number of economic issues, including establishing the federal debt ceiling, tax reform and entitlement reform. Senate leaders also seemed to suggest that cooperation on filibuster reform remained a possibility -- giving hope to the notion that the 112th Congress may not languish in gridlock. Following the Republican Annual Issues meeting in the Library of Congress, GOP leaders Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and freshman Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) said their ...
Senate Votes to Close Out Debate on US-Russia Nuclear Pact
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Senate has voted to close out debate on a new arms control treaty with Russia, setting the stage for ratification of the accord. The vote was 67-28 and was seen in part as a proxy vote for the final tally. President Barack Obama considers the treaty his top foreign policy priority in the postelection Congress. Almost a dozen Republicans joined all the Democrats in calling for an end to the debate. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton were at the Capitol lobbying lawmakers. Earlier in the day, Obama locked up the votes for ratification of ...
New Media Guru Sean Hackbarth Moves to Craft Media
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyPopular conservative blogger and new-media guru Sean Hackbarth has left his job as online communications adviser for the Senate Republican Conference (chaired by Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee) and has accepted a new job with Craft Media, serving as its senior campaign manager. Hackbarth has been weblogging since 1999, before the terms "blog" and "blogosphere" were widely understood. Fred Thompson snagged him in August 2007 to help run his e-campaign and to be his campaign blogger. From there, he moved to the Senate Republican Conference. "I spent two years in a Senate that dealt with ...
Elena Kagan Draws Opposition From Senators Who Backed Sotomayor
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThere is no question that Elena Kagan will be easily confirmed by the Senate this week to join the U.S. Supreme Court. But in recent days, Kagan has lost a handful of key votes from both sides of the aisle that Sonia Sotomayor secured during her confirmation process a year ago. Several moderate senators say Kagan's limited courtroom experience makes her too much of an unknown to support. When the Senate voted 68 to 31 to confirm Sotomayor in 2009, every Democrat and nine Republicans backed her, while 31 GOP senators voted no. Among the nine Republicans who supported Sotomayor were Sens. ...
White House Energy Confab: Democrats Seek Compromise, 'Brave Republicans'
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyIf Democratic senators were expecting a "Go Team!" postscript to a bipartisan energy meeting Tuesday with President Obama, they didn't get it. Instead the White House issued a low-key "readout" that acknowledged discord over a fundamental issue: whether companies should foot the bill for polluting the environment and contributing to climate change. Obama made clear that he still thinks the best way to transition to a "clean energy economy" is to put that kind of price on carbon pollution, the statement said, adding: "Not all of the senators agreed with this approach, and the president ...
Obama and GOP Senators: Trading Complaints for Debates
By David Corn - Politics DailyOn Tuesday, President Obama jaunted up to Capitol Hill to attend the Senate Republicans' weekly private get-together. He had come to discuss legislative priorities for the rest of the year -- which in congressional terms is rather short. You might have heard that there's an election in November, and legislators up for re-election will be spending much of the summer and fall in their home states doing what they can to keep from joining the ranks of the unemployed. Still, there are plenty of items on Washington's to-do list: immigration, energy legislation, a Supreme Court nomination, and more. ...
Democrats Still Short of Votes But Predict Health Bill Will Pass
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAfter months of deadlines that have come and gone, White House officials and congressional leaders expressed confidence Sunday that they will get the votes they need this week to pass a comprehensive health care reform bill, but they conceded that they are not there yet. At the same time, Republicans renewed charges that President Obama and Democratic leaders were "arrogant" and "tone deaf" in trying to push through legislation the country doesn't want, and warned that passage of the reform package would not only wreak havoc on the health care system but would be a disaster at the polls for ...
Nancy Pelosi and Lamar Alexander on ABC's 'This Week'
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyABC'S "THIS WEEK" FEBRUARY 28, 2010 SPEAKERS: ELIZABETH VARGAS, HOST REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF., SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER, R-TENN. [*] (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) VARGAS: Good morning, and welcome to "This Week." The health care summit. Did it make any difference? OBAMA: I hope that this isn't political theater. VARGAS: The parties came together... CANTOR: We just can't afford this. VARGAS: ... but they couldn't bridge the gap. So what's next for health care reform? Questions for our headliners. PELOSI: This will take courage to do, but we will get it done. VARGAS: House ...
Opinion: 'Not Factually Accurate'? Who Knows
By John Merline - AOL News(Feb. 25) -- One of the testier moments of the health care summit was revealing in several ways, but mostly because it helped make clear why the public is so turned off to the whole health care reform debate. Even simple things get extraordinarily complicated. The moment in question involved what should be a seemingly straightforward point of fact. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., at one point said that the Senate reform plan would raise premiums for people buying insurance in the individual market. Not so, said President Obama: "It's estimated by the Congressional Budget Office that the plan ...
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