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Joe Biden's CODEL to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan: Working All the Angles. . .Like He Should!
The Washington Note — Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of US Senators including Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Kerry (D-MA), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Jack Reed (D-RI) are leaving soon on the last CODEL (Congressional Delegation trip) that the soon-to-be-but-not-yet Vice President will make in his career as a Senator. Biden and his delegation will travel to Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan - and the White House and Obama transition office has made clear that he is traveling there in his current capacity as Chairman of the Senate ...

Steve Clemons: Joe Biden's CODEL to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan: Working All the Angles. . .Like He Should!
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of US Senators including Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Kerry (D-MA), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Jack Reed (D-RI) are leaving soon on the last CODEL (Congressional Delegation trip) that the soon-to-be-but-not-yet Vice President will make in his career as a Senator. Biden and his delegation will travel to Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan - and the White House and Obama transition office has made clear that he is traveling there in his current capacity as Chairman of the Senate Foreign ...

Giving Aaron Schock a Pass on Honduras and DeMint
The Washington Note — Congressman Aaron Schock is a highly reasonable, intelligent, balanced Republican Member of Congress -- and though I have only met him twice, I was impressed with how he conducted his conversations and views in DC cocktail policy chatter -- particularly at an MSNBC party where Rachel Maddow was tending the bar. Yesterday, Schock was on my mind as I listened intently to Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain lay out the parameters of what reasonable governance would look like from a responsible, conservative perch -- and was ...

Steve Clemons: Giving Aaron Schock a Pass on Honduras and DeMint
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Congressman Aaron Schock is a highly reasonable, intelligent, balanced Republican Member of Congress -- and though I have only met him twice, I was impressed with how he conducted his conversations and views in DC cocktail policy chatter -- particularly at an MSNBC party where Rachel Maddow was tending the bar. Yesterday, Schock was on my mind as I listened intently to Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain lay out the parameters of what reasonable governance would look like from a responsible, conservative perch -- and was impressed ...

The Big Question, Oct. 6: Did McChrystal break chain of command?
Congress Blog — ... wasn't he here in America meeting with General Jones and Secretary of Defense Gates? But that being as it may, I think it will all work out and they'll come together. The President will be properly advised and we'll have a good strategy going forward as to how we're going to train the police and the armed forces in Afghanistan and the number we seek to build up based on information that identifies all the claims at the table. The Commander in Chief in the end will make the decision." Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said: No I don't think so. I think the report was leaked by ...