Larson Calls for CEOs’ Heads to Roll
Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit said his salary is now $1 a year, and he pledged to take no bonus until this is resolved. But Frank suggested it was in bad taste for the CEOs to portray giving
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Lobbyists’ Money as Popular as Ever
Kit Bond (Mo.) and Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), co-chairmen of the Republican Senate Council, are spearheading the NRSC event Feb. 27 through March 1 at the Breakers Resort in Palm Springs.
Senate Panel Moves D.C. Voting Bill to Floor
Wednesdays 11-1 approval by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee was an important step in the 111th Congress for a bill that was created as a unique political compromise.
Census Already Drawing Knives
House Democrats put $1 billion for the census into the stimulus package, and the money was expected to make it into the final conference committee report thats expected to clear both chambers later
D.C. Voting Rights Bill Headed to Senate Floor
A Senate panel moved the District one step closer to full House voting rights after passing the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act by an 11-1 margin Wednesday. Can we scream now?
First Impressions of the ’10 Candidates Making the Rounds
[IMGCAP(1)]Republican Adam Kinzinger is looking at Illinois 11th district, a seat won in November by freshman Rep.
Heard on the Hill: Obama Drops the N-Word
[IMGCAP(1)]From the department of why-didnt-we-know-this-sooner: Obama himself narrates the audio version of his bestselling memoir, Dreams From My Father, including a passage in which he describes
Shop Talk: Virginia Is for Consultant Candidates
[IMGCAP(1)]Just slightly south of McAuliffe on the ballot, Michael Signer and Rich Savage are running for the Democratic nod for lieutenant governor. Signer served as a deputy counselor to Sen.
Photo of the Week: Snowe Forecast: Sunny
[IMGCAP(1)]Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) speaks to reporters Tuesday after the Senate passed its $838 billion version of the economic stimulus measure.
Morning Business: Countdown to New Caucus
[IMGCAP(1)]Braley has pitched the caucus as an advocate for uniting the party behind an economic agenda for middle-class and working families. Then-Rep.
Campus Notebook: A Counteroffer
[IMGCAP(1)]Its far less than the more than $460,000 that Schroer requested, which included about $160,000 for back pay and $300,000 for pain and suffering.
K Street Files: Try and Try Again
[IMGCAP(1)]I think there are areas, like education, where some in my party have been too resistant to reform and have argued only money makes a difference, Obama said later in the press conference
Standing Firm Against the Stimulus
To this end, we strongly support a number of provisions in the Senate version of H.R. 1 that will have a positive and immediate impact on our economy, Timmons wrote.
Hill Climbers: Campaign Boot Camp
[IMGCAP(1)]Youd have a plan in place, and itd go out the window with the news item of the day, she said.
Heard on the Hill: Hello, Dolly!
[IMGCAP(1)]Parton, who came to the press club to tout her new role as an ambassador for Great Smoky Mountains National Park, had the usually sedate crowd cracking up with her self-deprecating humor
‘We Got Along’ — Big John Dingell Remembers
And starting from the middle, in the 110th Congress, we passed a consumer product safety bill with final vote in the full House of 424-1.
Cornyn Plots Aggressive Strategy
The NRSC was able to garner only about $3 million in transfers from campaign accounts and about $1 million from leadership PACs.
Stimulus Flawed but Necessary; Dingell’s Still Hard at Work
[IMGCAP(1)]There are three goals here. The first is quick stimulus, the equivalent of shooting adrenaline into the veins of a sick patient.
Obama Would Do Well to Study His New Deal History
[IMGCAP(1)]Summers self-serving recast of history reflects the Democrats political narrative du jour, whereby they avoid any blame for the countrys current economic crisis and justify the biggest
U.S. Economy Needs Steady Rehab, Not ER Treatment
[IMGCAP(1)]If they didnt start to feel better immediately, they would say the doctor didnt know what he (it was always a he back then) was doing, the pill or injection (the jab) was the wrong