TPMDC’s daily update on the biggest legislative initiatives on the Hill:
- Guantanamo: The Senate stripped Guantanamo detention center closing funds from a war funding bill by an overwhelming vote of 90-6.
- Credit Card Reform: The House passed–and the President will soon sign–legislation cracking down on credit card companies. House leaders split the bill in two because of a measure sponsored by Tom Coburn (R-OK) allowing people to take guns into national parks. Both parts of the bill passed, but the move allowed liberal Democrats to go on record against the idea.
- EFCA: Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) tells potential EFCA opponents to get serious about compromise, or they’ll have to go on record, one way or another, on the question of the original bill.
- Defense Spending: Defense Secretary Robert Gates isn’t backtracking on his decision to cancel the (well over-budget) presidential helicopter program. But he does envision the possibility of a “escape helicopter,” to make the President’s job seem more awesome.
