Obama To Launch Campaign-Style Budget Blitz
AFP reports: “President Barack Obama this week takes his 2012 reelection bid cross-country, to the airwaves and to Facebook, pushing a prescription for long-term US fiscal health that includes tax hikes on the richest Americans…The US president’s campaign-style blitz came as Republicans redoubled their attacks on his handling of the struggling US economy and promoted their ‘Path to Prosperity’ blueprint for reining in the country’s galloping deficits.”
Obama’s Day Ahead
President Obama will host an Easter Prayer Breakfast at 8:35 a.m. ET. He will hold a town hall at Northern Virginia Community College at 10:15 a.m. ET, to discuss his vision for reducing our debt and bringing down our deficit, based on the values of shared responsibility and shared prosperity. At 3:25 p.m. ET, Obama will meet with a broad group of business, law enforcement, faith, and current and former elected and appointed leaders from across the political spectrum, on fixing the immigration system. At 4:30 p.m. ET, Obama will meet with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Biden’s Day Ahead
Vice President Biden will travel in the morning to Cleveland Ohio, and he will attend an event at 12:30 p.m. ET for Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH). Later, he will return to Wilmington, Delaware.
Boehner’s House Is On A Roll-Call Roll
USA Today reports: “Under Speaker John Boehner, the House of Representatives has taken 277 roll-call votes this year — the fastest pace of any House since Newt Gingrich was first elected speaker in 1995. The Senate has had fewer votes, 68, than any time since 1997. So with Congress divided between a Republican House and Democratic Senate, the volume of votes hasn’t translated into a litany of laws.”
FEC Reports Show Vulnerable Republicans Are Preparing For 2012
Roll Call reports: “With a few exceptions, the 14 Republican House Members representing the most vulnerable political terrain banked largely respectable first-quarter fundraising, starting them out on the right path in what could be challenging re-election bids. From Florida to New Hampshire, Wisconsin to Washington, all but two of the Republicans representing districts that voted Democratic in each of the past two presidential elections raised more than $100,000 in the first three months of the cycle.”
New York’s GOP Delegation Not Sold On Trump
The Hill reports: “New York-area Republicans aren’t sold on Donald Trump’s nascent presidential campaign, dismissing him as more of a self-interested publicity hound than a serious contender for the GOP nomination. Trump, a real estate mogul who’s spent a considerable amount of his career redeveloping property in New York City and surrounding areas, appears not to have won over the Republicans who might be more familiar with him and his decades’ worth of tabloid coverage in the nation’s largest city.”
