daniel inouye

Both Greg Grant and Josh Rogin report that Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has endorsed Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan and troop requests. Well, sort of.

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has put out a statement mostly in support of the version of a fiscal 2010 Defense appropriations bill making its way through the Senate Appropriations Committee. “Mostly” because the White House is taking issue with a few funding priorities in the bill. In the statement, OMB offers [...]

Sen. Robert Byrd, the 90-year-old West Virginia Democrat and the Senate’s in-house constitutional scholar, is stepping down as head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Politico reported today. Byrd said:
I have been privileged to be a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee for 50 years and to have chaired the committee for 10 years, during a [...]