Washington D.C. Bits and Pieces
January 10th, 2007
When your name is George W. Bush and even Oliver North comes out against you, you ought to know that your support is weak and even your buzzwords and scaremongering won’t fly this time.
Bush is reportedly going to acknowledge that “mistakes were made” in Iraq, though only as a means of forwarding his new agenda so he can make all new mistakes.
100 Hours News: the House passes a bill to finally implement the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations, more than two years after the report was published and Republicans kept the recommendations from being implemented. The bill passed the House with a veto-proof majority. One on its way, a lot more to go.
Who’da thunk: from left field (with the assistance of a right-fielder), a Network Neutrality bill is making its way through in the first 100 hours. Pelosi is a strong supporter of Net Neutrality, so this might actually get through. It seems to cover all the bases of Net Neutrality, a many-faceted issue, although I don’t know if it would make the policy permanent. Only Olympia Snowe amongst the Republicans has come out to support it so far; she is the sole Republican co-sponsor.
Coming up in the 100 Hours: Negotiating Drug Prices for Medicare. Introduced today.
See what they talked about in the House and Senate today.