Probably wasn’t the hottest idea for DSCC Chair Sen. Patty Murray to hit up the to-Dems-infamous Koch brothers for a five figure contribution to the DSCC.
Mitt Romney knocks Huntsman on his heels with a series of high-profile Utah endorsements.
The General Counsel of the Treasury Department has just sent out an email to the New York Times which seems to say definitively that Secretary Geithner believes that only Congress can raise the debt limit and has full authority to force the country into default. In other words, nothing President Obama or the Treasury can do about it.
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Rep. Barney Frank says Minority Leader Pelosi reassured House Democrats that the COLA change (which amounts to escalating cuts to Social Security over time) floated in the press will not happen.
TPM reader snaps pics of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) kicking back with economist buddies and two $350 bottles of pinot noir in Capitol Hill bistro.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) won’t identify the two economists he was sharing $350 bottles of pinot noir with. But maybe readers will recognize them: Read More
Boehner pulls out of discussions of a potential $4 trillion debt deal over insistence on zero new taxes, says talks should focus on smaller deal.
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So a congressman, a hedge fund manager and an economist walk into a bar …
Sounds like a good set-up for a joke, but that was the line-up last week at a Capitol Hill bistro. Not the kind of thing that would get much notice until the trio ordered a couple of $350 bottles of pinot noir.
As we reported Friday, the congressman was Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI). Now we’ve IDed the other two: a University of Chicago economist and the hedge fund manager who endowed the economist’s professorship. But it’s not just any hedge fund manager. Susan Crabtree reports.