Geithner Gets Brief Reprieve
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to let the president off the hook by calling for Geithner’s resignation en masse.
Beth Coulson (R), a 13-term state legislator, is open to the possibility of running in Kirk’s stead. “I would consider it, yes,— Coulson said in an interview.
“I did a fair amount of writing at night … and on weekends, mostly,— McKean said in an interview at the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
In an interview, he was quick to bring up his rural roots while insinuating that Markey’s support stems mostly from Fort Collins and Larimer County, which was the only county in the district that Obama
“Part of the reason that I wanted to be private is that I’m the type of person, give me the instructions and tell me what to do … and she’s the same way,— Wasserman Schultz said.
After that, the bonus bill would likely lie dormant next week while the chamber debates the 2010 budget resolution and then heads out of town for the two-week, Easter recess.
There are no open slots in the leadership, but the question of the ambitious Queens Democrat’s longer-term goal was reframed by his decision late last week to take the helm of the business-friendly
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) told two Florida newspapers Saturday that she has secretly battled breast cancer for the past year, undergoing seven major surgeries as she worked full time in Congress
Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), declined in a brief interview late Thursday to join the criticism being piled on his Democratic colleague for a stimulus bill loophole that allowed for millions in executive bonuses
who helped drive the finance giant into the ground.
In an interview with CNN, Geithner said it was he who asked Senate Democratic leaders to include the provision in last month’s stimulus package.
He has acknowledged the White House allowed for a loophole in the recently passed economic stimulus package that allowed the bonuses to go forward.
“There’s not a day goes by back in the district that somebody doesn’t ask me … Are you going to run again?’— Davis said in an interview. “Right now I just honestly don’t know.
However, the Republicans have taken out the knives, both for Dodd specifically and Senate Democrats generally.
They want this Congress to get back to … the belief that the freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail.— And he isn’t alone. The Senate’s No. 3 GOP leader, moderate Sen.
“We feel like we’re in the chase to run for something, but we’re not sure what yet,— Pearce said in a recent interview.
“That’s because there’s so much emphasis — especially in my line of work — on physicality … almost to the point of caricature,— she said in a phone interview from her apartment in New York.
Dodd has let us down, and he’s really abandoned Connecticut,’— Simmons said in an interview Monday after speaking with his family this weekend.
So it should not come as a surprise to anyone watching his interview Sunday with John King on CNN’s new show, “State of the Union,— that Cheney is not only driving himself around town, but is also
“I do think it is unfortunate that we will have to spend so much in the primary, but it’s a fact of political life that I’m willing to accept,— Fisher said in an interview.