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Biden to break with Cheney vice presidency, plans to limit role in Congress.
Think Progress —
... with congressional Republicans. The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that the new Congress “will reassert its constitutional independence from the White House by barring the vice president from joining in internal Senate deliberations.” Mike Allen reports that Vice President-elect Biden has readily agreed to ...
Biden to limit role of vice president
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... House in the Bush presidency, Mascaro writes. By giving Vice President Dick Cheney regular access to Senate Republican caucuses, at times with White House advisers in tow, party unity became more important to many Republicans than upholding their responsibilities to provide legislative oversight of the executive, experts say. The paper says that when Reid was asked whether Biden will be allowed to attend Senate Democratic caucus meetings, Reid said: Absolutely not. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16261.html
Joe Who?
Blue Crab Boulevard —
... The silent man speaks . Or rather, he doesn’t actually speak. Others speak for him. Or down to him, as the case may be. Dialing back his predecessor’s expansive view of the office, Vice President-elect Joe Biden plans on “restoring the Office of the Vice President to its historical role” as adviser to the president and tie-breaker in the Senate, an aide to Biden said Saturday. The declaration results from an attention-getting article coming from the Las Vegas Sun, which is reporting Sunday in a story by Washington Bureau reporter Lisa Mascaro that the new Congress “will ...
Has Joe Biden EVER Read the Constitution?
Stop The ACLU —
-By Warner Todd Huston [image] The Politico reported recently that the Democrat majority intends to “restore” the “proper” role of the vice president once Obama is sworn into office. They claim that they will somehow roll back the power that Cheney “stole” from Congress and that Biden will not be allowed as much leeway as Cheney was. Of course, it’s all well and good that what the vice president can or cannot do is reassessed from time to time. It is certainly up to each administration how to use its vice president and, to a certain degree, for Congress to assist the ...
Biden to break with Cheney vice presidency, plans to limit role in Congress.
The Hollywood Liberal —
... with congressional Republicans. The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that the new Congress “will reassert its constitutional independence from the White House by barring the vice president from joining in internal Senate deliberations.” Mike Allen reports that Vice President-elect Biden has readily agreed to ...
Joe Biden plans to do nothing as Vice President.
Althouse —
And he's preening as if he's being upstanding and virtuous. Is it even something he's doing as opposed to having done to him?
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A return to institutional normalcy
Political Animal —
... from the Senate arena where he spent most of his adult life is intended to restore constitutional checks and balances that tilted heavily toward the executive branch during the Bush presidency. [...] "[Biden] can come by once and a while, but he's not going to sit in on our lunches," Reid said. "He's not a senator. He's the vice president." As it turns out, Reid and the Democratic caucus are not at all at odds with Biden over the decision. A spokesperson for the vice president-elect said , "Vice President-elect Biden had no intention of continuing the practice started by Vice ...
