“Like any good CEO, the Democratic Senate majority leader is delegating to a group of empowered lieutenants. Unlike some recent high-profile, back-room deals—the 2011 debt-limit and fiscal-cliff deals, to name two—the Nevadan is running immigration, guns, and the budget through the regular process. That means giving power back to committee chairs, a turfy bunch who were none too pleased to be left on the sidelines in the recent fiscal debates,” National Journal’s Chris Frates reports.
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