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Politics & The Nation
Lawmakers put the ‘dead’ in health-care deadline
Democrats consider overhaul of student loan program ................A3
Obama pounds drum for health-care initiative ..............................A3
Haiti seeks help plugging budget gap caused by earthquake........A3
Senate votes for $140 billion in tax breaks, aid for unemployed ..A4 M
embers of Congress do highlight tapes of Obama laying
not like to be rushed. down deadlines in the past:
Lord Cornwallis “Before the August recess. . . . By
Terror suspect dropped out before high school, married at 16 .....A4 surrendered to George July 31st. . . . By the fall. . . . By
Review of U.N. panel’s report on Washington at Yorktown in 1781, the end of this year. . . . In the
climate change won’t reexamine errors...........................................A7 but Congress didn’t get around next few weeks.”
Md. moves quickly toward common academic standards .............A7 to appointing Washington So when Gibbs trotted out his
general of the armies of the
DANA MILBANK
March 18 deadline, nobody gave
The World
United States until 195 years it much weight. It seemed the
later, during the Ford Washington Sketch Congressional Budget Office
After playing down election violence administration. More recently, might not even finish calculating
in Iraq, U.S. military reassesses ........................................................A8 lawmakers built themselves a the cost of the proposal much
Biden’s rebuke on new housing comes Capitol Visitor Center, but they before then. “We have to wait for
as Israel seeks to reaffirm U.S. relations..........................................A8 missed their own deadline for them,” Dick Durbin (Ill.), the No.
British official urges Afghanistan opening day — by four years. 2 Senate Democrat, lamented to
to negotiate with insurgents ...........................................................A10 So White House press The Post’s Shailagh Murray.
U.S. focus on Darfur may hinge on Sudanese peace accord.........A10 secretary Robert Gibbs should “That will be on my senatorial
have known he was asking for tombstone: ‘He was waiting for
Economy & Business
trouble last week when he went the CBO.’ ”
on MSNBC’s airwaves and On Sunday, Health and
Payday lenders, pawnbrokers and car dealers handed Congress a deadline: Human Services Secretary
would be shielded from the loan scrutiny .....................................A14 Pass health-care reform Kathleen Sebelius was already
U.S. ramps up pressure on firms doing trade with Iran ...............A14 legislation by the time President wiggling away from the Gibbs
NHTSA chief says Toyota complaints were ‘unremarkable’ ........A15 Obama leaves for Australia and deadline. On “Meet the Press,”
Rise in Washington-area unemployment Indonesia — or else. she said she’d wait until “the
seen as good sign for economy’s recovery......................................A16 “We’re leaving on March 18, leadership decides it’s time to
and we believe that we’re on call for the vote.”
schedule, based on our The deadline did have one
conversations that have been had result: It rallied opponents of the
CORRECTIONS
with the speaker of the House bill, who have organized a “tea
and the majority leader, that party”-style protest in
we’re on schedule to get
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington for March 16. The
a71 A March 6 Page One article Ruthsburg, Md., to a proposed
something done before we leave,” Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Steny Hoyer are deadline also irked a leading
about the D.C. government’s plan State Department training site in
the president’s spokesman said. getting used to seeing deadlines for health-care reform come and go. Democratic holdout on the bill.
to combat HIV with free dis- the Eastern Shore town incor-
March 18? Of what year? “I don’t like deadlines,” Rep. Bart
tribution of the FC2, a second- rectly described a document that
Gibbs, perhaps realizing he Waxman (Calif.), chairman of the Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) wanted Stupak (Mich.), an antiabortion
generation female condom, de- contributed to a decision by
had gone too far, tried to say House Energy and Commerce to begin debate on the Senate Democrat, complained to Fox
scribed the condom as being Queen Anne’s County to with-
later in the day that he was Committee. measure on Oct. 13. News Channel on Wednesday,
made of a thin polyurethane that draw support for the project. It
merely reflecting how House Within five days, Gibbs’s November 2009: Pelosi had further branding it an “artificial”
conducts body heat and enhances was a solicitation for Bureau of
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer deadline was dead. said the House would pass its deadline.
sensation. The original female Diplomatic Security training ser-
(Md.) and House Speaker Nancy This was all beginning to version of the bill “well before That left Gibbs with the lonely
condom was polyurethane; FC2 vices, not a land solicitation, that
Pelosi (Calif.) “see the schedule.” sound familiar. To needle the Thanksgiving.” task of defending his own
is made of a synthetic rubber described plans for air operations
This came as news to Hoyer. majority party, the Republicans December 2009: Sen. Tom deadline.
polymer called nitrile that has and the use of heavy artillery. The
“None of us have ever dashed off an e-mail to reporters Harkin had predicted that “Do you still believe that the
those qualities. That erroneous article also said, based on infor-
mentioned the 18th other than that helpfully itemized months Obama would sign a bill “before House will vote on the Senate
information was incorrectly at- mation provided by a State De-
Mr. Gibbs,” he told reporters on of missed deadlines: Christmas.” health-care bill by March 18?” he
tributed to the condom’s design- partment official, that the depart-
Tuesday. “Don’t confuse the June 2009: The Senate Now it’s nearly St. Patrick’s was asked Tuesday.
ers at the Female Health Co. The ment now trains 10,000 people a
House timeline with the White Finance Committee chairman Day, and House leaders are “I do,” he said.
article also incorrectly referred to year. The department currently
House timeline.” Even getting had wanted his panel to draft a talking about Easter. “Majority Leader Hoyer
the Food and Drug Administra- trains 6,000 to 7,000 a year and
something passed by the time bill by the end of the month. To torment the Democrats apparently has a different
tion, which approved FC2, as the expects to train 10,000 annually
Congress leaves for a two-week July 2009: House leaders had further, the office of Senate opinion about that,” a reporter
Federal Drug Administration. by 2014.
Easter recess on March 26, Hoyer predicted that the measure Minority Leader Mitch informed Gibbs. Another asked if
said, is merely an “objective, not would be out of the House by the McConnell (Ky.) put out various it’s a “problem for the White
a71 A Nightclubs listing in the a71 A Feb. 7 Outlook review of the
a deadline.” end of the month. headlines from the preceding House to have the majority
March 5 Weekend section mis- book “The Last Train From Hiro-
Other Democratic August 2009: Obama had year, asking reporters to guess leader saying that the deadline
stated the name of a band per- shima” misstated the amount of
congressional leaders met with proposed a deadline of Aug. 8 for the dates. Among them were: that you set is not in their
forming Thursday at J.V.’s Restau- uranium in the atomic bomb that
Rahm Emanuel late Tuesday and the Senate and House to vote on “Deadline looming, Obama urges timeline.”
rant in Falls Church. The band is was dropped on the Japanese
gave the White House chief of the legislation. health care action” (Dec. 19, “Not that I can think of, no,”
Johnny and the Rebels, not John- city. The reviewer, drawing on in-
staff a dressing-down. “He was September 2009: Pelosi had 2009) and “Obama Sets Gibbs answered.
ny and the Relics. complete information in the
certainly informed that we don’t wanted the final version of the ‘Make-or-Break’ Deadline on Gibbs has until March 18 to
book, said the bomb contained
feel that we want any deadline House bill by month’s end. Health Care” (June 3, 2009). come up with a better answer.
a71 A Feb. 26 Metro article about 1.2 pounds of uranium. The bomb
assigned to us,” said Henry October 2009: Senate Majority TV networks went to their
danamilbank@washpost.com
Radio One’s decision not to move contained a total of about 140
to the District incorrectly said pounds of highly enriched urani-
that the company is the country’s um. The Post has since reported
largest radio broadcaster. It is the that the publisher ended its rela-
largest African American radio tionship with the author, Charles
broadcaster. Clear Channel Com- Pellegrino, and stopped printing Pelosi’s office was told of concerns about Massa
munications is the largest U.S. ra- and shipping copies of the book
dio broadcaster. because Pellegrino was unable to
sources spoke on the condition of cratic leaders its work, because there are “an
adequately answer questions
Ex-congressman’s
anonymity because of the politi- were aware of awful lot of questions” surround-
a71 A Feb. 23 Page One article about his sources and about a
chief of staff relayed
cal sensitivity of the matter. the allega- ing Massa. “And at this point
about objections in and near PhD he said he earned years ago.
Massa resigned from the tions of Mas- there are a lot more questions
The Washington Post is committed to correcting errors that appear in the
his worries in October
House on Monday amid ques- sa’s miscon- than answers, and I would hope
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then-Rep. Eric Massa’s top aide ment Wednesday. Congress on protect junior claims, saying they emanated
of concerns about the New York The revelation about warnings Monday. staffers. from his use of too much “salty
Democrat’s behavior, two con- to Pelosi’s office comes as the GOP lead- language.”
gressional sources familiar with House ethics committee closed ers cited as precedent the com- The Washington Post reported
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