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Mitch McConnell: Obama Not Serious About Entitlements Reform
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that "this is the perfect time to tackle entitlement reform" because both political parties now share power – and responsibility – in Washington, but he said he does not think President Obama is serious about doing so. "This is the perfect time to tackle entitlement reform. ... We have divided government," McConnell said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "That is, one party doesn't control the entire government. That's the time to do big things. Remember when Reagan and Tip O'Neill fixed Social Security. Remember when Clinton and a ...
Obama to Sign Food Safety Bill Giving FDA Power to Order Recalls
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyMarking another legislative victory for himself and also American consumers, President Obama this week will sign the first major reform of food safety laws since the 1930s, rolling out a battle plan that gives the Food and Drug Administration authority to order recalls of tainted products and add 2,000 federal inspectors to its force. The much-debated measure passed the House 215-144 Tuesday after clearing the Senate by unanimous voice vote the day before. Congress acted after a series of tainted food scares in recent years, including an outbreak of salmonella that led to the recall of more ...
Food-Safety Bill Clears Senate in Wake of 2010's Massive Recalls
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAfter a year of dozens of dangerous-food incidents, including a single outbreak of salmonella that led to the recall of more than half a billion eggs, the Senate passed a food-safety bill Sunday night by a unanimous voice vote. The bill will overhaul food-safety standards in the United States for the first time since 1938. In addition to adding 2,000 new food-safety inspectors, it will give the Food and Drug Administration the power for the first time to force a mandatory recall of tainted foods and products, a decision which had been left up to food companies up to now. The measure will ...
Republicans, Democrats Indicate Deal Likely on Tax Cuts, Unemployment Benefits
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublican and Democratic lawmakers continued on Sunday to cautiously dance around what has emerged as the outlines of a deal on extending the Bush-era tax cuts. But their remarks appeared to signal that both sides were likely to reach a compromise that kept the tax cuts for all, including the wealthy, but not on a permanent basis, as well as extending unemployment benefits. Coming a day after Senate Republicans blocked Democratic efforts to permanently extend the tax cuts for all but high-income earners, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted on NBC's "Meet the Press" that "we're ...
TSA: Some Government Officials to Skip Airport Security
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 23) -- Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-approved federal security details. Aviation security officials would not name those who can skip the controversial screening, but other officials said those VIPs range from top officials like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and FBI Director Robert Mueller to congressional leaders like incoming House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who avoided security before a recent flight ...
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 ...
Domestic Surveillance in Doubt as Patriot Act Expiration Looms
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe House and Senate are working through a stack of must-do legislation before the end of the year, but neither has scheduled time to debate expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act. Without at least a temporary extension, three sunsetting portions of the law that grants domestic surveillance powers to law enforcement will expire on Dec. 31. The looming deadline coincides with a growing concern among law enforcement officials that homegrown terrorism is becoming a more dangerous and immediate threat. In addition to last month's shooting at Fort Hood, reports came this week that a Chicago ...
Health Care Bill Still Faces Huge Hurdles in the Senate
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThere seemed to be enough lawmakers on the Sunday news shows the day after a major health care reform vote to make up a quorum, but the one clear message that emerged was the long and difficult road the legislation has to go in the Senate. ...
Harry Reid: 'Phony' Health Care Protests Astroturf, not Grassroots
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stood up during a Capitol Hill press conference Thursday to display a prop meant to reinforce Democrats' charges that protests against health care reform have been organized by political and corporate interests. Holding up a square of bright green Astroturf, Reid said, "This is not grass roots," and added that the congressional town hall demonstrations are "about as phony as this grass." Reid acknowledged that Americans have concerns about health care legislation, "and rightly so." But he said the protests were generated by "talk show hosts, Internet rumor mongers ...
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