GOP Gets Creative in Blocking Obama Agenda

Republican resistance to President Obama’s second-term plans “intensified another couple of notches today,” David Hawkings reports.

House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “announced they would simply ignore a provision in the health care overhaul calling on each to pick someone for a new panel with the power to dictate Medicare spending reductions without fear of congressional reversal.”

“At the same time, all eight Republicans boycotted this morning’s meeting of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which under a wrinkle in the rules prevented the panel from advancing Gina McCarthy’s nomination to run the EPA.”