“It’s good to have a gavel, especially when your party’s in power. With the gavel, though, comes a great responsibility to deliver on promises,” Punchbowl News reports.
“That’s what House committee chairs are trying to do. But now comes the hard part. Anything they’re pitching for reconciliation has to follow the budgetary restraints of the filibuster-proof process, meaning not every panel’s top priority can make it in the package.”
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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.