When reporters asked Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) how a Republican caucus meeting went the Alaska senator waited for an elevator to arrive, she responded, “Icky,” quickly noting that was not “very senatorial,” the Alaska Dispatch News reports.
When asked if any progress was made “on issues that are important to you” for the health care bill, she paused and said, “No.”
Politico says Murkowski ripped GOP leaders’ attempt to scale back Medicaid spending in their new bill.
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.