Wednesday, August 31, 2011
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 0–> Welch said Congress should always be looking for ways to save money, but he didn’t vote for the GOP bill because the offsets were “quite unwise.” “What we can’t do is use a budgetary agenda to deny providing help when there’s been an act of God that’s inflicted enormous harm on [...]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
From FNC Chad Pergram: — Urgent: Boehner’s office got little warning president was going to ask to come to the Hill next week Per Pergram-Capitol Hill Fox has learned that the office of House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) only got the request from the president…asking the speaker to invite him to conduct a Joint Session [...]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
ABC News’ Mary Bruce reports: The White House says they consulted with House Speaker John Boehner about the Wednesday date before the president sent his letter of request to Congress earlier today but that Boehner “determined Thursday would work better.” “The President is focused on the urgent need to create jobs and grow our economy, [...]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
(Updates with background beginning in third paragraph.) Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama agreed to a one-day delay to address a joint session of Congress on his plans to increase U.S. jobs, resolving a dispute with Republican House Speaker John Boehner. The White House issued a statement tonight that said Obama “welcomes the opportunity” [...]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Update: Shortly after this post was posted, Chad Pergram and Chuck Todd both announced the President has lost again to the GOP and agreed to speak on Thursday night instead of Wednesday. We’ve reached out to Chuck Todd and Luke Russert to see how the network will handle the scheduling conflict, but neither have responded [...]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Do federal regulations save lives, protect the environment and establish uniform rules nationwide? Or do they burden commerce, hike costs for consumers and choke off hiring? A decades-long and highly partisan debate raged anew between the Obama administration and congressional Republicans Tuesday when the president advised John Boehner, in response to an inquiry from the [...]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
After Obama was elected, Deb (movie title print designer extraordinaire, my co-conspirator and wife) I thought we were experiencing a little shift in the Zeitgeist — worldwide. Obama not being the change, but, let’s say, a symbol of it. Also, quite honestly, the Karmic residue of painting portraits of bad guys for 24 years had [...]
1. It would save money at the Federal level — but it would cost more everywhere else. A Kaiser Foundation study concluded that “raising Medicare’s eligibility to 67 in 2014 would generate an estimated $5.7 billion in net savings to the federal government, but also result in an estimated net increase of $3.7 billion in [...]
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Among the core assumptions of modern liberalism is that future regulations have no more effect on the economy than future taxes, as if expectations don’t matter and businesses don’t prepare now for their costs tomorrow. President Obama’s letter to John Boehner yesterday is a classic of the genre. Last week the Speaker asked the White [...]