Blog Format

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• The Real West Wing Tour Guide

  
  KeithHennessey.com — Authority: 579
  Here is a small Christmas gift for you:  The Real West Wing Tour Guide (circa 2007). While the general public can often get a White House East Wing tour through the office of their Member of Congress, West Wing tours can only be given by White House staff. Through most of President Bush’s time in office, ...
  5 days ago

• My foggy legislative crystal ball

  
  KeithHennessey.com — Authority: 579
  I tried to update my projections for health care legislation but found I was making wild guesses.  This is too much of an inside game for me to predict what will happen over the next ten days.  My crystal ball is foggy. I can, however, offer some questions and observations for you to consider.  I hope you find ...
  1 week ago

• Legislative hostage taking

  
  KeithHennessey.com — Authority: 579
  Former Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) famously said, in his trademark Texas drawl, Never take a hostage you’re not willing to shoot. I heard him say this to a Republican colleague who had blocked a Clinton Administration nominee as leverage on an unrelated policy issue.  The White House publicly confronted the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The “using TARP funds for stimulus” gimmick

  
  KeithHennessey.com — Authority: 579
  Under current law it is not legally possible to “use” returned TARP funds for a new stimulus proposal.  The Administration and its Congressional allies want to describe their proposal this way to make it appear that their new spending does not increase the federal deficit and debt.  Even if the TARP law is ...
  2 weeks ago

• How would the Reid bill affect the middle class?

  
  KeithHennessey.com — Authority: 579
  There has been confused public discussion about the effects of the Reid bill on low- and middle-income taxpayers.  Senator Grassley and his Finance Committee staff have worked with the Joint Tax Committee staff to disentangle the strands a present and clearer picture of the actual financial effects of the Reid bill ...
  2 weeks ago

• The President’s new economic proposal

  
  KeithHennessey.com — Authority: 579
  Here is the President’s new economic proposal, which he is not calling a stimulus: I.  Accelerating near-term job growth Small business “a tax incentive to encourage small businesses to add and keep employees” [details TBD with Congress] one year zero capital gains tax rate for small businesses. one ...
  2 weeks ago

• A good jobs day

  
  KeithHennessey.com — Authority: 579
  Today’s employment report is good news: Only 11,000 net jobs were lost in November.  Given the margin of error on this data, that’s basically equivalent to zero. The unemployment rate declined from 10.2% in October to 10.0% in November. Data for September and October were revised upward.  The U.S. economy ...
  3 weeks ago

• The President’s 2010 challenges: jobs, deficits, and taxes

  
  KeithHennessey.com — Authority: 579
  I think health care will dominate the first month or two of the 2010 American domestic policy debate.  But by the end of February we will either have a law or the bill will have died. Jobs, deficits, and taxes will dominate the rest of the 2010 American domestic policy debate: The unemployment rate is 10.2%.  The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senate floor #011: The “hidden tax” of the uninsured

  
  KeithHennessey.com — Authority: 579
  I have heard the following argument frequently and expect to hear it much more over the next few weeks.  Here is Senator Baucus speaking on the Senate floor Monday : Third, health care reform will work to repeal the hidden tax of more than $1,000 in increased premiums that American families pay each year in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senate floor #010: Minority party rights and tactics

  
  KeithHennessey.com — Authority: 579
  Yesterday Senate Banking Committee Ranking Republican Judd Gregg sent Senate Republicans a reminder of all the procedural tools available to Senators “to insist on a full, complete, and fully informed debate on all measures and issues coming before the Senate.”  When you’re in the majority, you often refer to ...
  3 weeks ago

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