U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) will announce Monday he will not run for re-election in 2012 after being in the Senate since 1987, scoops Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post:
Conrad had been open about his ambivalence about running for another term and those doubts almost certainly increased following
With President Obama set to say goodbye to his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in less than an hour’s time, the media is full of reports and profiles concerning his presumed successor, Senior Advisor Pete Rouse.
The Washington Post, for one, has a lengthy profile that sets up More…
Today at the Center for American Progress, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) urged the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty, arguing that it would enhance the country’s national security and allow America to lead by example on the global stage. He noted that seven More…
If Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Friday statement that nuclear arms-reduction treaties typically command large bipartisan majorities was a first nudge to get the Senate to ratify the New START accord with Russia, late next week will showcase a second and more direct push. Clinton’s aides are planning More…
Two bills introduced in Congress recently stake out rival positions on a key issue related to health care reform. Which approach ultimately prevails will help determine whether the pharmaceutical industry maintains the support that Pfizer CEO Jeffrey Kindler voiced Wednesday for President Obama’s plan’s to overhaul the More…
What was bad news for Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, Tim Geithner and now Hilda Solis might be good news for the federal government.
Their recent tax woes — by which we mean their getting caught not paying their (or their spouses’) taxes — mean that the More…
The CEO of Netflix, the wildly successful Internet company that rents DVDs via the mail, says President Obama is off the mark in trying to cap executive compensation. In an op-ed in The New York Times today, Reed Hastings writes that the government should take in taxes half of More…
Today was not a good day to be the White House press secretary.
After two of President Obama’s prominent nominees withdrew from consideration because of tax concerns, Robert Gibbs took tough questions from the media at his daily press conference. And he didn’t enjoy a bit of it. More…
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), who heads the conservative Republican Study Committee in the House, spots an opportunity to attack Democrats on former Health and Human Services nominee, Tom Daschle.
Today’s action provides a glimmer of hope for patient-centered health care in America. While the fact that he failed to pay
Pledging that he “will not be a distraction,” former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination for secretary of health and human services, MSNBC reports.
Following Nancy Killefer’s withdrawal from her chief performance officer post, Daschle is now the second Obama nominee to pull out for tax More…
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