After Senate Republicans today filibustered the nomination of Caitlin Halligan to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said it might be time to revisit the (weak) deal Senate Democrats struck on filibuster reform at the beginning of this Congress … in January.
Yesterday, as noted here, The Daily Caller attacked The Washington Post and stood by their Menendez/prostitution story. But, not altogether consistent with that, they also said they’d spend yesterday verifying their story. So we’re keeping our collective ears to the ground today waiting to hear how that verification went. Read More
Disgraced ex-Rep Bob Ney (R-OH), one of the mid-level players in the Abramoff scandal, says now-Speaker Boehner offered him a job to get him to resign.
The payroll company ADP reports that the US created 198,000 private sector jobs in February.
So is Menendez toast or the Daily Caller? Here’s our scorecard of what happened over the last 24 hours.
Note: The Daily Caller said yesterday they were going back to verify their story. So presumably they’ll be back sometime today with either a big thumbs up or an awkward silence. So we’ll be watching for that.
Here’s a head scratcher for you, via notices that House GOP leaders just sent out.
Due to the threat of inclement weather Republicans have moved their big House vote on funding the government forward to Wednesday late morning/early afternoon — or as a meteorologist might say, right into the heaviest part of the snow storm. Read More
A lot of recent reporting on sequestration and expiring government funding legislation reflects the notion that a government shutdown is more or less off the table — that because the White House doesn’t want one and Republican leaders don’t want one, a ’95 style shutdown isn’t a real possibility.
Both of those things are true. Several key players in this negotiation would like to avoid a shutdown. But as we’ve been trying to reinforce in our reporting, that doesn’t settle the question. Read More