“I actually thought about calling an audible this morning and run over the the White House lawn to jump on Marine One to accompany the president when he came on down,” Corker said today in a telephone interview from his Washington D.C. office. “But we just decided in terms of advancing policy it would be best for me to stay here.”
Corker, a former Chattanooga mayor, said he talked with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough several times today, but decided in the end to stay in Washington.
Corker and other senators working on a budget agreement will meet with McDonough on Wednesday to continue their talks about ways to cut the deficit and spending, while still making smart investments to help boost the economy.
Good stuff at this person’s blog. Stuff I didn’t know.
Senator Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Panel and serial abuser of underage hookers, is pushing to bring this amendment up again this year. From The Hill…
Treaty supporters say those worries were unfounded, and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations panel hopes to win approval of the treaty, a Senate Democratic aide said.
Menendez hopes to strike a deal on a way forward with the panel’s top Republican, Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee,
http://wizbangblog.com/2013/07/01/bob-corker-the-democrats-new-bff/