Supreme Executive Power

By Kleinheider Posted on April 1, 2009 at 11:20 am

Via NRO:

In an important victory for the nation’s governors, the White House is acknowledging that state legislatures across the country can’t wrest control of $48.6 billion made available under the new federal stimulus law to help states cope with their budgets.

White House budget chief Peter Orszag says there is no provision in the stimulus law for state lawmakers to accept that money without approval by the governor. South Carolina’s Republican governor, Mark Sanford, has said he may decline more than $700 million in stimulus money because the White House won’t let him spend the money to pay down his state’s debt.

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Senator Corker Reacts To White House Auto Bailout Proposal

By Kleinheider Posted on December 19, 2008 at 5:04 pm

From WDEF:

“No one enjoys a crisis but sometimes it is the best opportunity to bring real reform. It is my sincere belief that requiring fundamental changes as part of a loan package is in the long-term interests of Michigan, Tennessee and our country.”

SEE ALSO: Ken Whitehouse

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White House Guard Treats Congressman As Though He Were An Uninvited Armenian

By Kleinheider Posted on December 10, 2008 at 12:08 pm

The Memphis congressman gets the high hat fro White House security:

Just as Cohen was getting warm in his hunt for the ornament in the Blue Room of the White House, where the official tree stands, he says an usher with a “very rude” tone declared, “This room is closed!”

But it didn’t look closed; there were other members of Congress milling about the room, according to Cohen and Hooley. Cohen explained to the usher that he was looking for an ornament painted for the White House Christmas tree by one of his constituents in Memphis. Hooley was doing the same. (Both lawmakers wound up finding their respective ornaments, you’ll be pleased to know.)

The usher didn’t seem to care about the ornament search as the time neared 11 p.m.

“It was like he was a bouncer and it was last call,” Cohen tells the Sleuth. The congressman says he found the usher to be “haughty, arrogant, controlling and rude.”

TITLE REFERENCE: Cohen breaks bad with Armenian activist.

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