Black smoke from the cardinals’ chimney?
Restructuring appropriations subcommittees has come to a screeching (temporary?) halt as the Senate’s cardinals (as senior appropriations senators are known) have
rejected their House counterparts’ proposal (report from Congressional Quarterly, subscription required):
“The House proposal doesn’t appear to be acceptable to . . . basically anybody on the Appropriations Committee,” said Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., who […]