Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made headlines in February when, during a spin through Asia, she revealed that the Obama administration is reviewing its Burma policy, in search of more effective ways to sway the tyrannical military regime.
“Clearly, the path we have taken in imposing sanctions hasn’t More…
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) isn’t Washington’s biggest fan of President Obama, as his withdrawal from consideration for commerce secretary last month demonstrated. But nor does he want Obama to fail.
Give this to Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.): He wasn’t lying when he said he wasn’t a good fit in President Obama’s cabinet.
Gregg, of course, withdrew his nomination for commerce secretary in a storm of media attention last month. The senator, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, More…
Yesterday morning, before Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) pulled out from consideration for commerce secretary, House Republicans announced the formation of a special Census Task Force, headed by Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) and freshman Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.). According to Lungren spokesman Brian Seitchik, Gregg’s departure hasn’t changed a thing.
Byron York had been working the sleepy “Census controversy” beat yesterday, so it makes sense for his story today to focus on how Republicans were fretting about the issue before Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) withdrew his nomination for commerce secretary.
“I think he had buyer’s remorse,” one GOP
Politico’s spin-crunching machine busts a gear in this analysis of what Republicans are saying about Sen. Judd Gregg’s (R-N.H.) withdrawal of his nomination for commerce secretary.
Nevertheless, for a Republican Party desperately careening from message to message, from “Drill Baby Drill” to “The Future is Cao,” Gregg’s move has
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) has withdrawn his name from consideration to become President Barack Obama’s commerce secretary, saying in a statement that “this will not work for me as I have found that on issues such as the stimulus package More…
It seems that Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), President Barack Obama’s pick to head the Commerce Department, doesn’t exactly believe in the necessity of that agency.
CQ’s Jonathan Allen points out that Gregg, one of the upper chamber’s most vocal fiscal hawks, voted twice in 1995 to abolish the department More…
Speculation has been running rampant among pundits and journalists alike about President Obama’s reported desire to nominate Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) as commerce secretary, after New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) withdrew himself from consideration for the post over a federal investigation in his state.
The nomination, the thinking goes, More…
The statements are dribbling in slowly, but the common verdict from members of Congress surrounding the economic team put together by President-elect Barack Obama seems to be one of undying love — from both sides of the aisle.
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the More…
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