Reid Will Keep Biden Out of Senate Meetings
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 7th, 2008 5:36 am by HL
Reid Will Keep Biden Out of Senate Meetings
An advance look at tomorrow’s Las Vegas Sun:
“The new Congress will reassert its constitutional independence from the White House by barring the vice president from joining in internal Senate deliberations, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in an interview with The Sun.
“The move is intended to restore checks and balances to a system that tilted heavily toward the White House in the Bush presidency. 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.
“Asked if Vice-President Joe Biden will be allowed to attend Senate Democratic caucus meetings, Reid said: ‘Absolutely not.’”
