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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a Cabinet-level office?
It's a brand new developed position from my understanding...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a Cabinet-level office?
with all the wrong that's been glaring in our faces lately about the US political process, and the way our government operates in general... this picture pretty much sums up all that is right...
every living former, current, and future leader... standing in the oval office, together... each one having taken over for the other without blood shed... knowing that the office is bigger than the person occupying it.
each one having taken over for the other without blood shed... knowing that the office is bigger than the person occupying it.
Actually, the one who took over for Carter is no longer with us.
But I digress.
Jimmy Carter looked very uncomfortable
Actually, the one who took over for Carter is no longer with us.
But I digress.
I think the Dems have something like 57 (including Lieberman and Sanders)
Minnesota race with Franklin barely ahead will likely be in the courts for a few months.
The Illinois appointment being refused, can leave that seat vacant for some time.
That will leave the Dems with only 57 when they should have 59.
The Dems can not resolve the Minn seat any faster by themselves.
They can seat Burris and at least have a solid 58.
Senate open to seating Franken
Manu Raju
55 mins ago
Neither Al Franken nor Roland Burris have been officially certified as senators, but Democratic leaders are still open to seating Franken while refusing to seat Burris until he has his paperwork in order.
Republicans see inconsistency in this stance, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says the cases are totally different.
"People have gotten the certificate thing messed up," Reid said. "State of Illinois is an appointment. State of Minnesota is an election. Two different things."
Minnesota's canvassing board this week announced that Franken was the winner in his bitterly contested race with Republican Norm Coleman, but state law prohibits granting an election certificate if legal challenges are pending. Coleman is suing over the election results that show Franken won by just 225 votes out of nearly three million cast.
Like Franken, Burris, the 71-year-old former Illinois attorney general, does not have complete credentials to take the Senate seat because he lacks a signature from his secretary of state, who refused to sign the paperwork because he was appointed by scandal-plagued Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Democrats are eager to fill the two open Senate seats, fearing that their current majority of 57 senators would make it harder to move Barack Obama's agenda when he is sworn into office Jan. 20. Despite initially opposing Burris because of the taint of Blagojevich, Democrats have backtracked under enormous pressure and are now setting a process for him to be seated.
How long Franken will be in limbo is unclear, and Democrats have called on Coleman to concede and drop his pending litigation. If it drags on, Democrats are signaling they may move ahead.
When asked whether he would seat Franken before the litigation is resolved, Reid said: "We're going to be very patient and not rush through it."
But Reid made clear to Politico in an interview earlier this week that he would not hesitate to send the Franken-Coleman case to the Rules and Administration Committee, which handles election disputes. Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the hard-nosed Democratic partisan, will soon assume the chairmanship of that panel, but refused to comment Thursday.
Pushing the Franken case, though, opens up Democrats to criticism after they refused to seat Burris. Democrats are still arguing that Burris cannot be seated until his lawsuit calling for the secretary of state's signature is resolved.
Senate rules say the secretary of the Senate shall keep credentials of each senator "elected or appointed."
Republicans see a double-standard and plan to block any attempt in the Senate to seat Franken before the litigation is resolved.
"The winner cannot be certified until those remedies have been exhausted," said Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), top Republican on the Rules Committee and a close adviser to Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. "This is a problem for Minnesota to resolve, not the Senate."
bill clinton told gw he liked the new carpeting.
Actually, the one who took over for Carter is no longer with us.
But I digress.
I know it has only been a day or so
But, I will give Obama credit for more change than I expected.
It will be interesting to see how all this plays out.