Tag: david obey

NBC and the AP are both reporting the House Appropriations Committee Chairman, David Obey (D-WI) will retire this year.

Childish crap like this helps no one: After the House floor had largely cleared following a series of votes, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) split apart from a heated conversation and began yelling at one another. “You’re out of line,” Waters shot while walking down toward the well. “You’re out […]

From The Nation: When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed investment in pandemic preparation, included roughly $900 million for that purpose in this year’s emergency stimulus bill, he was ridiculed by conservative operatives and congressional Republicans. Obey and other advocates for the spending argued, correctly, that a pandemic […]

It looks like Tomlinson got out of the CPB just in time. This from today’s LA Times WASHINGTON — The former chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting repeatedly violated the organization’s contracting rules and code of ethics in his efforts to promote conservatives in the system, according to an internal investigation released today. The […]