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Brunner Down, But Not Out - Hotline On Call

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Erin McPike - Dec. 17 (Comment) - She said she realized that with all of the institutional support going to LG Lee Fisher (D), she's been forced to run a grassroots campaign, and she thinks it's going well. "I started my law practice out of the corner of my bedroom," she said. It eventually grew to 32 people. "When you start a small business, you have to run things as lean and mean as you can. I think donors appreciate when you don't waste their money."

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House Cleaning At API

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Peter H. Stone - Nov. 17 (News Report) - Four senior hands will be leaving the American Petroleum Institute by year's end, including Jim Ford, who until early this month was the group's top lobbyist.

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CongressDaily - Atonement

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By George C. Wilson - Oct. 26 (News Report) - A conscience-stricken member of the House Armed Services Committee is writing a book called "My Daddy's Not Dead Yet" in hopes it will atone for what he now considers his sinful vote to empower former President George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003

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If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Jonathan Rauch - Oct. 01 (Opinion) - "But 95 percent of these questions are always the same. Don't you know that every time I fill out one of these duplicative forms I increase the chance of error? Wouldn't it make more sense to hold my travel information centrally, so that everyone could see the same thing?" "Sorry, sir, we have no capability for that, and we do need to have your travel history at least two weeks before you fly."

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Looking Abroad For Answers On Voter Registration

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Eliza Newlin Carney - Jul. 20 (News Report) - Unlike the United States, which puts the onus for registering entirely on the voter, many Western democracies put government officials in charge of adding voters to the rolls, according to a recent study by New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice. These include Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Peru and Sweden.

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Justices Reject Sotomayor Position 9-0 -- But Bigger Battles Loom

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Stuart Taylor Jr. - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - The Supreme Court's predictable 5-4 vote to reverse the decision by Judge Sonia Sotomayor and two federal appeals court colleagues against 17 white (and one Hispanic) plaintiffs in the now-famous New Haven, Conn., firefighters decision does not by itself prove that the Sotomayor position was unreasonable.

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G-20 And The Limits Of Cooperation

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Clive Crook - Apr. 04 (Opinion) - The London summit of the Group of 20 industrial and emerging economies was a missed opportunity from the start. The previous summit, in Washington in November, took place after the election but before President Obama was sworn in. That timing furnished an easy excuse for failing to get much done.

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On Energy, Let A Thousand Filaments Bloom

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Ronald Brownstein - Mar. 27 (Opinion) - There is no single way to wean the U.S. from fossil fuels. The only answer will be to let a thousand flowers, or maybe filaments, bloom.

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The Morning After, Voting Problems Remain

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By David Herbert - Nov. 19 (Investigative Report) - Dozens of volunteers fielded calls from harassed or confused voters in a command center complete with a 20-foot-high wall of digital maps and statistics. Upstairs, teams of lawyers hunched around conference tables littered with soda cans and cups of cold coffee, working the phones and dispatching legal teams to troubled polling stations.

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A Hard-Headed Strategy Of Inclusion

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Ronald Brownstein - Nov. 15 (Opinion) - To seize that opportunity, Obama would need to overcome the objections of liberal Internet activists who are condemning as capitulation any effort to find accommodation with Republicans or the interests they represent. But outreach from Obama wouldn't be a form of altruism, much less a concession to the post-election conservative insistence that America remains a right-tilting country. Instead, it would be a hard-headed strategy for expanding his own coalition by dividing the GOP's. Systematically reaching out beyond his core supporters is Obama's best hope of advancing his policy agenda and of delivering on his overarching promise to bridge America's partisan and ideological divides.

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The End Of The Reagan Era?

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Ronald Brownstein - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - Reagan's commanding victory 28 years ago marked what many historians see as a hinge in American history -- a moment that was a transition between political eras. If the Democrats win a victory of comparable breadth on November 4, the obvious question will be whether 2008 marks another transition...

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The Real Risk Of McCain's Health Plan

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Ronald Brownstein - Oct. 11 (Opinion) - McCain's camp insists that his proposal would not undermine employer-based coverage. But few experts agree. Several studies have projected that his plan would move about 20 million people from employer-based coverage to the individual insurance market. And in that market, older or sicker consumers face much higher costs than the healthy -- if they can buy coverage at all.

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A 'Maverick' Nominee, But Still The Same GOP

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By James A. Barnes - Aug. 29 (Special Report) - So, now that McCain heads the Republican Party, will he steer it in a new direction? And does his unorthodox path to the nomination signal that it has already shifted to the center? Most leading Republicans doubt that fundamental change is afoot. Many do not desire it. Yet, almost universally, they fervently hope that McCain can fundamentally change the way their party is perceived by an electorate that now gives the incumbent Republican president, George W. Bush, abysmal job-approval ratings.

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Obama's To-Do List In Denver

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - Aug. 26 (Interview) - To win the presidency, you got to do two things. One, you got to convince people that they shouldn't -- particularly when you have an incumbent like we have and an incumbent party that is so in such bad shape -- you have to convince them, and it doesn't take much, that they don't want to continue that kind of rule.

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China's Cyber-Militia

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Shane Harris - May. 30 (Special Report) - Computer hackers in China, including those working on behalf of the Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply into the information systems of U.S. companies and government agencies, stolen proprietary information from American executives in advance of their business meetings in China, and, in a few cases, gained access to electric power plants in the United States, possibly triggering two recent and widespread blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to U.S. government officials and computer-security experts.

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National Journal Online - Q&A: David Plouffe

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Linda Douglas - Apr. 25 (Interview) - We built our strategy around the acquisition of delegates because that's our rules. So did Senator Clinton. This popular vote is kind of a red herring. I mean, if this was about popular vote, we would've campaigned harder in Illinois to drive up our numbers. We would have campaigned the entire 10 days before February 5 in California and New York to drive up our numbers. But what we did was campaign in a lot of states and a lot of congressional districts to try and get delegates, because that is what this is about. So, you know, they are very creative about establishing new metrics.

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Hillary's Political Purgatory

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - Apr. 24 (News Analysis) - The good news for Hillary Rodham Clinton is that she's winning a lot of battles. The bad news is that the war is pretty much lost.

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EPA Missing in Action

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Margaret Kriz - Apr. 15 (News Report) - The Environmental Protection Agency is failing to live up to its name these days, its legions of critics agree. At a time when the nation's top environmental regulators face increasingly complex pollution problems, President Bush is pushing for dramatic cuts in EPA's budget, his administration's strained, pro-industry interpretations of environmental laws have repeatedly been laughed out of court, and the White House is widely perceived to be running roughshod over agency scientists and lawyers.

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Homeland Security Department Begins to Install Career Personnel Into Political Appointee Jobs

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - Jan. 11 (News Report) - "The incoming administration may well ask whether or not the career person was appointed on the basis of merit or on the basis of political connections," said New York University scholar Paul Light. "That creates quite a bit of tension"

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New roadblocks delay negotiations on security, ethics bills

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Chris Strohm, Ben Schneider - Jul. 17 (News Report) - Senate Republican opposition to sending ethics and homeland security measures to conference set off a round of partisan bickering Monday, clouding prospects for wrapping up the bills before the August recess. A planned meeting of the House Rules Committee was called off Monday, when Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., objected to a unanimous consent agreement that would have cleared the way for a conference committee by combining House bills that would implement the remaining recommendations of the 9/11 commission and would address rail and mass transit security. An aide said Kyl was objecting on behalf of other Republican senators, but would not identify them. Also Monday, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said he would continue to block a conference on lobbying and ethics reform until he receives a guarantee that his earmark-disclosure language will not be changed by the conference committee.

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Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove

Thu, 10 May 2007 12:19:30 -0700

National Journal - By Murray Waas - May. 10 (News Report) - Several of the e-mails that the Bush administration is withholding from Congress, as well as papers from the White House counsel's office describing other withheld documents, were made available to National Journal by a senior executive branch official, who said that the administration has inappropriately kept many of them from Congress. The senior official said that Gonzales, in preparing for testimony before Congress, has personally reviewed the withheld records and has a responsibility to make public any information he has about efforts by his former chief of staff, other department aides, and White House officials to conceal Rove's role. "If [Gonzales] didn't know everything that was going on when it went down, that is one thing," this official said. "But he knows and understands chapter and verse. If there was an effort within Justice and the White House to mislead Congress, it is his duty to disclose that to Congress. As the country's chief law enforcement official, he has a higher duty to disclose than to protect himself or the administration."

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Secret Order By Gonzales Delegated Extraordinary Powers To Aides

Tue, 01 May 2007 01:16:01 -0700

National Journal - By Murray Waas - May. 01 (News Report) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales signed a highly confidential order in March 2006 delegating to two of his top aides -- who have since resigned because of their central roles in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys -- extraordinary authority over the hiring and firing of most non-civil-service employees of the Justice Department. A copy of the order and other Justice Department records related to the conception and implementation of the order were provided to National Journal.

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The Clock Winds Down

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:14:03 -0700

National Journal - By James Kitfield, Brian Friel - Apr. 20 (Special Report) - This, then, is a story about when and how -- not if -- the Washington clock runs down. If Bush is successful, the time on that clock will expire after the November 2008 election, when he passes the Iraq problem to the next president and surrenders his legacy to history. Democrats are determined to make the sands run out on Bush's "surge" strategy much sooner -- the better to begin the long homeward march of U.S. troops on the watch of the president who sent them to Iraq in the first place.

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McCain: We Won't Meet Fundraising Goals

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:35:00 -0700

National Journal - By Marc Ambinder - Mar. 24 (News Report) - Sen. John McCain said his presidential campaign would not meet its fundraising goals this quarter, and his campaign advisers acknowledged that ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney may wind up raising more.

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Jury still out on Democratic oversight efforts

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:55:00 -0700

National Journal - By Brian Friel - Mar. 23 (Special Report) - The emphasis on oversight has set off a flurry of activity across Washington. Newly hired committee staffers on the Hill are boning up on investigative procedure. Congressional liaisons in the executive branch are begging for more time to respond to chairmen's letters. Reporters are triaging their schedules. K Street firms have set up congressional oversight practices to coach and assist the government contractors and the executives of health care, energy, financial services, and other firms that are suddenly finding themselves the target of probes. And heads are rolling.

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