First Read writes, “President Obama has spent the past week wining and dining congressional Republicans. He’s addressed Senate and House Republicans, and he’s answered all of their questions -- all in an effort to strike a budget deal. …He wrapped up his three-day Hill charm offensive Thursday, meeting in the...
OPENING BUDGET BIDS WashPost writes, “Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are drafting radically different budget blueprints that offer little room for compromise, even as President Obama presses lawmakers to take another shot at a far-reaching agreement to tame the national debt. RYAN PLAN On Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman...
the legislation is not expected to pass the full Senate, the Senate Judiciary Committee narrowly passed a ban on military-style assault weapons, Reuters reports. On a party-line vote, Democrats on the panel approved a bill to outlaw the sale of such weapons and limit high-capacity ammunition clips to 10 bullets....
NJ writes, “Sen. Rob Portman, the Ohio Republican who was considered a strong prospect as a vice presidential candidate in the last election, has changed his position to support gay marriage, dropping his decades-long opposition after one of his sons said that he is gay. For Portman, the new position...
SPY CHIEF ON CYBERATTACKS For the first time in his annual presentation to Congress on the threats facing the United States, National Intelligence Director (NID) James Clapper listed cyberattacks first, The New York Times reports. Although Clapper told the Senate Intelligence Committee he only saw a “remote chance” of a...
As the Senate debates its version of a $984 billion government funding bill, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-PA, is trying to gut the funding for the military’s alternative-fuels program. He filed two amendments Thursday, The Hill reports.
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