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By Emily Pierce
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
Sen. Ben Nelson is emerging as the Senate Democrats’ hardest sell on health care reform, and the defeat of his anti-abortion amendment Tuesday could prove to be the tipping point for the Nebraska centrist.
By David M. Drucker
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
As a group of 10 Senators raced to negotiate a deal on the public insurance option, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was working a few other angles to try to pass his health care bill this year: renewing his courtship of GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine).
By Shira Toeplitz
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
While most of the 2012 GOP presidential buzz is focused on a group of former and soon-to-be-former governors, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) is increasingly being viewed as the Capitol’s most likely White House contender.
By Jennifer Yachnin
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
The Supreme Court’s review of a public corruption statute could open an escape route for individuals caught in the influence-peddling investigation centered on ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to criminal law experts.
By Emily Heil and Elizabeth Brotherton
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
Rep. Joe Baca might just wish he could get a legislative mulligan.
By Steven T. Dennis
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
With President Barack Obama endorsing a hefty jobs package Tuesday, House Democrats are eyeing a fast-track bill that could give them something to crow about as they head home at the end of the year.
By Jackie Kucinich
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
House Republican leaders have urged their Members to lay low in the debate about President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan war strategy in an effort to keep their message focused on jobs while Democrats fight each other over the war. Several Republican aides said limiting Republican comments on the war has allowed GOPers to make headway talking about “kitchen table” issues such as jobs, the economy and climate change.
By Keith Koffler
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
With the Senate bearing down to pass health care reform legislation by the end of the year, President Barack Obama will be traveling for nearly half the remaining days of the month, making two trips to Scandinavia and then resting up in Hawaii over Christmas and New Year’s.
Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
With fanfare and self-congratulation, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced last week that House Members’ office expense reports are now posted online. Problem is, the move enhances opaqueness, not transparency.
By Norman Ornstein
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
The health care reform debate in the Senate is going to have a fascinating sideshow to watch. There are several must-pass measures Congress has to tackle before the year’s end — cleaning up budget and appropriations, some authorizations, including key parts of the USA PATRIOT Act, raising the debt ceiling, and passing measures such as an estate tax fix. Most are moving through the House on a reasonable timetable. But the Senate is wholly consumed with the health issue, each long day soaked up with delays and obstacles thrown out by the minority in order either to kill the bill or to delay it into next year. How can the Senate take time to do other things?
Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
The latest cartoon from R.J. Matson.
By Bennett Roth and Alex Knott
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
The Home School Legal Defense Association has historically steered clear of Capitol Hill health care debates, which did not seem relevant to its mission of keeping the federal government out of its business.
By Matthew Murray
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
After months of sparring over health care reform, small-business groups are angling to play a lead role in shaping a White House-backed jobs package that is expected to become a priority in the new year.
By Anna Palmer
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
Compete America, the tech community’s coalition to press for immigration reform, has whittled down a list of potential firms to run its operation. Podesta Group, Dewey Square Group and Monument Policy Group are all scheduled to be interviewed Thursday morning, according to an e-mail obtained by Roll Call.
By Elizabeth Brotherton
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
Part of Julie Miller’s work at the Library of Congress involves helping visitors find the materials they need to conduct their research.
By Byron C. Tau
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
Bully! Humbug! A new family-friendly play inspired by both President Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” opened Saturday at the Kennedy Center.
By Byron C. Tau
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
After suspending service last Sunday because of a shortfall in funding, the popular H Street Shuttle is due to resume operations later in the month. According to Charles Allen, chief of staff for Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells (D), the shuttle will begin running again “no later than Dec. 21.”
By Kristin Coyner
| Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
The Republican staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee recently underwent a whopping eight-person change. With such a large number of changes, the range of people found on the staff comes as no surprise. But even the most seasoned Hill staffer would find the convergences unique. Recent additions include a former counsel to the vice president, an aspiring museum docent and a Texas-Canadian, to name a few.
Dec. 9, 2009, Midnight
Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal (left), commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, rides the Senate subway Tuesday en route to testify before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Afghanistan.
