Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced today that he will become the chairman. He takes over from the late Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI).
The big question is how a pushed-back showdown over the debt ceiling would affect the dynamics of the debate over sequestration, set to begin taking effect March 1. Morning Defense writes, “On the surface, a delayed debt-ceiling would appear to remove the GOP’s leverage at the negotiating table, since Republicans...
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is in the market for “subsistence” in the form of 678 dozen doughnuts — raspberry-filled, lemon-filled, glazed and other delicious varieties. The solicitation, first reported by Time Magazine’s Mark Thompson, seems to fly in the face of recent reports that the military is getting stricter...
As Roll Call political columnist Stu Rothenberg wrote in a must-read piece handicapping the 2016 race: “For different reasons, [Hillary] Clinton, now the outgoing secretary of State, and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. are in a tier all their own, though they aren’t in an identical place within that...
“Monday will be a big day in the District, but National Journal’s George E. Condon Jr. argues that it won’t be anything like Obama’s first swearing-in in 2009. As Lena Dunham noted in her controversial campaign ad for Obama in October, the first time is special. There is always a...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is leaving the Obama administration by the end of March and heading back to Colorado. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Monday his plans to continue serving in his post. CHIEF OF STAFF Denis McDonough, one of Obama's closest national security advisers, was named as his next...
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