Speaker Nancy Pelosi has for the second day since returning from a two-week Easter break postponed naming conferees for the reconciliation of the military supplemental spending bill.

She says it’s because a lot of Representatives from the Northeast were unable to get to Washington due to the recent storms and because some lawmakers attended services at Virginia Tech, but they could at least have been named without being there.

“We need the conferees in order to make progress on the bill,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who will join Mrs. Pelosi and other congressional leaders at a White House meeting with President Bush today.

Patience also wore thin among Senate Democrats assigned two weeks ago to the conference committee that will reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions of the $100 billion bill.

“We are going to be talking about that and trying to put some pressure on bringing that [conference committee] about,” Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, Hawaii Democrat and member of the conference committee, said on his way to the party’s weekly policy luncheon.

“I’m hoping we can do that sooner because it is something that we need to decide,” said Mr. Inouye, chairman of the Appropriations defense subcommittee.

You know this bill is going to be vetoed and time is of the essence to get a new bill that everyone can live with.

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of watching this contest of seeing who can pee higher on the wall.

Written by ~J~

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