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Congress Returns to Washington With Everything on the Line
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAfter a five-week recess in their home states and districts, members of the House and Senate return to Washington this week with a mile-long list of items left to tackle before the end of the year, but precious little time before the crucial midterm elections. With polls showing Democrats in danger of losing either or both chambers of Congress, each vote before the election will be scrutinized by jittery incumbents for its ability to aid or hurt their very survival. Top congressional advisers say the electoral anxiety will likely translate to an abbreviated September session, dominated by ...
Massive To-Do List Grows As Senate Health Debate Stalls
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyPresident Obama has made health care reform his top legislative priority on Capitol Hill. But several time-sensitive and controversial measures are threatening to derail the Democrats' plans for health care by year's end unless the Senate can quickly pass reform legislation and attend to at least a dozen other looming bills within the next several weeks. From appropriations bills that must pass by Dec. 18 to contested portions of the USA Patriot Act, which expire on Dec. 31, to the estate tax, which will drop from 45 percent to zero on Jan. 1, the items remaining on the Senate's agenda would ...
National Mall a National Disgrace?
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyThis is for all of those who fly into Reagan National Airport: How many of you have looked out the windows when the pilot announces he is banking over the famous monuments of Washington? How many have taken pride in this view? Unfortunately, like so much of the nation's capital, it looks better from a distance. ...
Bush Threatens Veto of Defense Policy Bill
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe White House announced today that President Bush plans to veto the Defense Policy Bill, a non-funding measure that directs where and how the Pentagon can allocate funds authorized in the Defense Department Appropriations measure passed earlier this fall. The Administration objects to a provision in the bill that would allow Iraqi government assets in the United States to be frozen in the face of U.S. filed lawsuits stemming from activities of Saddam Hussein's regime. The White House, through a spokesman, said that the provision would have a dire impact on the ability of the nascent Iraqi ...
Bush Holds End of Year Press Conference
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Bush appeared in the Briefing Room of the White House this morning for a brief end-of year summation and question and answer session. The president provided his view of the legislative accomplishments in the first year of the Democratic Congress. In doing so, he focused primarily on bills passed in the last three weeks. Mr. Bush spread faint praise to the Democratic leadership in Congress and expressed his disappointments with them for goals not met.The president said he was very pleased that Congress approved what he called a "down payment" on funding for the wars in Iraq and ...
Senate Approves Iraq Funds
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Senate passed a combined appropriations bill last night authorizing funding for all Federal agencies, except the Defense Department which received its funding in a separate bill passed earlier this fall. But the military will be getting some funding in this end-of-year appropriation. In its version of the bill, the Senate approved $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill now goes to the House for a vote today.The Senate approved the Iraq money with no conditions or strings. There are no time lines for withdrawal, no goals for troop reductions, and no benchmarks for the ...
Bush, Republicans Set for Budget Victory
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Democratic Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. David Obey (D-WI), announced last night that a spending compromise offered by House Democrats had failed and that the bill would be pulled from consideration. The plan was to pass a $520 billion spending bill, containing $11 billion in domestic spending over and above the budget request made by the White House. That represented a compromise of sorts on domestic spending, as Democrats had originally been seeking $22 billion in additional funds. Rep. Obey accused Congressional Republicans and the White House of bargaining in bad ...
House Fails to Override Bush Veto
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe House of Representatives failed to override President Bush's veto of the Labor, Health, and Education appropriations bill yesterday. The vote was a close one, the measure coming just two votes shy of the 2/3 needed to override. The final tally was 277-141.In his veto message accompanying the rejected bill, the president cited spending on ineffective and duplicative programs and earmarks contained in the bill as top reasons for the veto. The bill had a total price tag of $151 billion, some $12 billion more than the budget request made by the White House. That $12 billion includes over 2,200 ...
Veterans Funds Delayed; Congress Blamed
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe White House took aim at Congressional Democrats yesterday for failing to present a veteran's funding bill for the president's signature by Veteran's Day. Last week, President Bush called on Congress to pass the stalled veteran's appropriation in time for the holiday. Congress passed the bill, but the House attached it a much larger Labor, Health, and Education funding bill, one that the president has threatened to veto.This is the latest in the war of words between the Administration and Congressional leaders over fiscal year 2008 funding levels. None of the 12 annual spending bills that ...
House Overrides Bush Veto
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe House of Representatives voted 361 to 54 to override President Bush's veto of the Water Resources Development Act. The bill authorizes $11.2 billion in funding for Army Corps of Engineering projects over the next four years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. If the Senate follows the House's lead, as it is widely expected to do, it will be the first veto override of the president's tenure.The vote in the House and the expected Senate action sets the stage for more battles between Congress and the White House this fall over spending levels. ...
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