Punchbowl News: “Biden presided over Breyer’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1994, and now he will name Breyer’s replacement.”
“This has never happened before in U.S. history. Not even by Martin Van Buren, who was Judiciary Committee chair way back in the 1820s and then later became the 8th president.”
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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.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.