Road Map: Passing Appropriations This Year Gets Trickier

By Emily Pierce
Roll Call Staff

July 28, 2009, 12 a.m.

What’s another missed deadline among friends?
Congressional Democrats have already given themselves a little more time to fight it out on health care. So it probably won’t surprise anyone when they blow past the Oct. 1 cutoff date for funding the federal government, having sent only a handful of spending bills to the president’s desk.

Schumer Advocates for Many on Panel

Nov. 16, 12 a.m.

As Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson once said of the Joint Economic Committee, “It’s as useless as tits on a bull.” But as that panel’s chairman during the 110th Congress, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) seized the opportunity to elevate the traditionally low-profile post to the forefront of shaping policy. Read Full Article