Late last week, it seemed as if the tide of Democratic support was shifting away from Ben Bernanke’s bid to serve a second term atop the Federal Reserve. Just a few days later, he’s not looking so bad.
Over the weekend, Bernanke won the endorsement of Sens. Chris More…
Unveiling a modified health reform bill on Saturday, Senate Democratic leaders appear to have cobbled together the 60 votes they’ll need to pass the most expansive overhaul to the nation’s health care system in generations. But winning that support comes at a steep cost.
To satisfy Democratic moderates, Senate Majority More…
Unhappy with all the recent tweaks to the Senate’s health care reform legislation, three top Republicans are asking the Congressional Budget Office to re-score the entire bill. In a Monday letter to CBO, Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) argue that “CBO’s complete analysis of More…
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) ruffled feathers this month when he drafted a detailed strategy for stalling the health reform bill moving through the upper chamber. Yet Gregg is hardly alone, and health-care legislation is hardly the only target of the GOP’s delay tactics.
[Congress1]Since being swept from More…
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) — the notorious budget hawk who almost became President Obama’s Commerce Secretary — has accepted a spot on the powerful Banking Committee just as discussions are heating up over legislation (not yet unveiled) to reform the finance industry. The seat was vacated More…
Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news.
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), President Obama’s one-time nominee for commerce secretary, is now positioning himself as a roadblock to Democratic efforts to pass health care reform using the budget reconciliation process, which requires just 51 votes rather than More…
We ran a piece this morning examining some lawmakers’ concerns about the future of the $2 billion that was plucked from a renewable energy loan guarantee program to extend cash for clunkers.
But at least one lawmaker has no such worries. Not only will the $2 billion be More…
People have been tweeting at me to provide a roll call for yesterday’s OMG-worth vote to kill the F-22, so here’s one. As it appeared yesterday, the vote was relatively nonpartisan: while the 58-40 tally to end funding for the fighter jet was carried by the Democrats, 15 Republicans More…
Unlike the Bush administration — which used a slim election victory to claim a broad policy mandate — the Obama White House has bent over backwards to include minority-party Republicans in the discussions over health care reform this year. The aim, Democrats say, is to get a More…
Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, is well known on Capitol Hill for his harsh criticisms of anything tax-hike related, including the possibility that Democrats would allow expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts on the nation’s wealthiest people. Yet here’s Gregg today More…
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