One of the weird things about interning on Capitol Hill...
By Jonathan Bradley in Washington D.C.
1 March 2010
...is reading things like this in the Times, and wondering if I know the "senior House leadership aide" in question:
Publicly, House Democratic leaders are trying to sound upbeat. The House Democratic whip, Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, said last week that he felt “pretty good” about the chances of passing Mr. Obama’s bill. But the leadership has not yet started counting votes, and a senior House leadership aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, conceded that rounding them up would not be easy.
“It’s going to be a heavy lift,” this aide said, “but so have many other votes. In the last health care vote we really didn’t have the majority until the afternoon, and this will probably be that way, too. That’s how these votes come together in the end.”
(If you recall, I had been interning in the Democratic Whip's office until last Friday. Now that it's all over, I'll be talking a bit about the experience in this space over the next couple of days.)
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