The Hill on House Democrats placing pressure on Fainthearted Faction member Collin Peterson of Minnesota. This article, meanwhile, notes that the big committee-assignment loser this year in the Wisconsin delegation was Faction member Ron Kind.
On the other side of the aisle, among others, we’re watching Jo Ann Emerson of Missouri, a member of the Shays Handful.
The rest of the Republicans from Missouri are either endorsing the Bush phase-out plan or suggesting they’re inclined to support it. But Emerson is, conspicuously, doing neither. “We ought to get the budget back in balance and restrain spending, quit spending money like drunken sailors, and then look at where Social Security is when weâve done that,” she told the Associated Press.
