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Capitol Hill News Open Thread

by: CA Berkeley WV

Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 16:20:48 PM EST


by CA Berkeley WV

Good afternoon, West Virginia Blue readers. This is your afternoon open thread to discuss all things Hill-related. Use this thread to praise or bash Congresscritters, share a juicy tip, ask questions, offer critiques and suggestions, or post manifestos.

As always, this is a crosspost from CongressMatters. This is the important news of the day. Okay, maybe only some of it. So if you disagree, go watch Casual Wednesday suggestion of the public advocacy class covered on CSPAN. Or cross the Eastern Continental Divide in winter to deliver a WVU student. I was in hiding after the Gator Bowl.

ShorterTM version today.

CA Berkeley WV :: Capitol Hill News Open Thread
Don't forget the state races, POTUS is not. Especially the state Legislature which, for most states, determine reapportionment of Congressional seat. Is that why Rep. Michele Bachmann R-MN-06 is quieter, it sunk in?

Net neutrality has been mentioned here, and it may have met the force of Summers. Is there any constituency for legislation at all, especially to preempt rule making?

Speaking of rule making, Cheney was evidently such a force that he suspended the rules, making them moot.

Any stories of someone is this administration getting down in the weeds?

Science and the EPA are getting ahead of the legislative process, even with the helpful rejoinders of Rep. John Shimkus R-IL-20. Sen. Lisa Murkowski R-AK gets a vote on 20 January 2010, one to watch. It is the one year anniversary of the last day the GOP remembers anything.

Sen. With-Us-On-Everything-but-The-War and his BFF report from foreign soil that heads should roll. Unless your name is Steele.

Just shoot me, then legislate. Is that how the Article I is supposed to work?

This took a while to get staffed, but Pelosi's Pecora-lite Commission is calling witnesses.

Negotiations on financial reform is something else happening behind closed. doors.

Someone take Rep. Darrell Issa's R-CA-49 investigative staff, please.

Nightmares from my youth. Don't be seduced by the gold.

This just ran yesterday in the little local paper. Illogical? D'oh!

And just for Casual Wednesday, why doesn't this woman have a vote in the House and Box Turtle's in the Senate?

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