Playbook: “Speaker Mike Johnson’s margin of error gets that much smaller at 7 p.m., when he swears Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) back into the House after his special-election triumph earlier this month.”
“That will bring the chamber split to 219-213, meaning Johnson can lose no more than two GOP votes on a party-line question if all members are present and voting. That margin is not likely to improve until after the June 11 special election in Ohio’s 6th District.”
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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.