Greg Sargent has the letter from White House Counsel Greg Craig to Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.), answering some of the worries he and other senators have expressed about the high-level administration officials appointed without the advise and consent of the Senate. Sargent sums up Craig’s points, which should More…
I reported last week on Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-Wis.) Constitution subcommittee hearing on “czars.” The subcommittee has released its witness list:
T.J. Halstead, deputy assistant director of the Congressional Research Service’s American Law Division
John Harrison, University of Virginia School of Law
Bradley Patterson Jr., author of “To
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), one of two Democrats who’s expressed worry about the president’s use of advisers who haven’t been approved by the Senate, has scheduled Constitution subcommittee hearings on the matter.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution has scheduled a hearing on “Examining the
On her Fox News show last night, Greta Van Susteren treated viewers to some of the least informative “czar” coverage yet seen in this manufactured controversy. She was stunned by a list of “czars” provided by Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), who, as I reported, demanded that czars submit themselves More…
Manu Raju talks to Senate Democrats about the Glenn Beck-driven, almost entirely hysterical campaign against “czars.” The fuel: a letter written by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) about “czars.” I’ve reprinted the letter below the jump, but the key bit is this:
I respectfully urge you to disclose as much
The White House pushed back a little bit on the “czars” story today, with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs pointing out how, in the past, Republicans like Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) called for new czars to take charge of mounting problems. Alexander has issued a statement pushing right back:
The
At a press conference on Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-Ga.) anti-”czar” legislation, Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) held up a chart of 34 “czars” in the administration.
“I don’t think you know who these people are,” said Shadegg, ribbing the media for not holding them “accountable.”
But several of the people in More…
Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-Ga.) has rapidly signed up 99 co-sponsors for his Czar Accountability and Reform Act of 2009, which I wrote about last week. All but one of them are Republicans: the member of the majority party backing Kingston’s crusade to prevent presidential advisers who haven’t been More…
On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The Senate will hold an up-or-down vote on the nomination later this week. Republicans voting for cloture: Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), Sen. More…
Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-Ill.) office sends word that the Senate will vote on cloture on the nomination of Cass Sunstein after a debate this hour.
At 4:45pm, the Senate will proceed to vote in relation to the following:
- Final passage of the Travel Promotion Act (S. 1023, as
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