Bayh forms moderate working group

Posted: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:37 PM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Congress, Democrats, Norah O'Donnell

From MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell

As he announced on Morning Joe today, Sen. Evan Bayh is forming a Moderate Dems Working group that will meet every other Tuesday before the Democratic caucus to discuss legislative strategies and ideas.

Per Bayh's office, the group's goal "is to work with the Senate leadership and the new administration to craft common-sense solutions to urgent national problems."

Video: Bayh is forming a 15-person working group focused on fiscal responsibility.

Here's part of a statement to be released very shortly from Bayh... The group will focus "on the upcoming budget negotiations and the importance of passing a fiscally responsible spending plan in the Senate."

More: "Leading the new group are Democratic Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Tom Carper of Delaware and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas... [O]thers joining the group are Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado, Mark Begich of Alaska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Bill Nelson of Florida, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Udall of Colorado, and Mark Warner of Virginia."

EMAIL THIS

Comments

And finally, Obama needs to focus. He's all over the place. He's got a healthcare summit one day, Leno the next, and then we turn around and he's filling out and announcing his college basketball tourney picks, and all of this is occurring in the midst of an economic crisis!! I am all about multitasking, but you also have to prioritize.

Jill F., Tulsa, OK
============
Just because Bush couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time, doesn't mean President Obama can't. The current President also have a million more brain cells that your guy, so therefore can multi-task. Don't worry about it.

Diane from Illinois (Sent Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:32 PM)

To all the Republicans Posters (Question Mark, Bob Smith, Obamanation, USSA etc..)

Definition of Sore Loser: A sore loser is someone who loses in a fair competition but whines about it on a constant basis, blaming everyone around them for their loss except themselves. Fun to taunt, but no fun to play with.
Stop throwing chess pieces at the Dems, you damn sore losers!

Dem at Heart, Congers, NY (Sent Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:41 PM)

It is VERY sad that now even some Democrats! CAN'T continue to support our President. It is also VERY sad that the Democratic party is letting this to happen!

President Obama has our supports more than ever.
The President is empowered by the people for the people, and those who stand in his/our way must think about our and their future.

God bless our President, this Great land, and its Hard Working Citizens.

Eshy

Eshy Redmond, WA. (Sent Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:00 PM)

Sheryl, ft. campbell:

Yes, we know what transparency is. It means you can see through something.

This administration is transparent alright.

Richard, Washington State (Sent Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:03 PM)

Don't like Bayh. Never have. If he wants to be a republican, then change. I guess he and the others didn'y get the messgae when the country overwhelming elected Obama that we wanted his agenda to advance. Sounds to me like Bayh and company conspired with the repubs to be a stumbling block for the Obama admin. Always some nutbag(s) to mess up the show. Seems like these 15 have color issues too with Obama just like the repubs. They didn't form anything when Bush was in office. Haters!!!

Ivory Crampton, Texas (Sent Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:11 PM)

Oh great another group to deal with, nothing like democrats to vote against the leader of the party in less than three monthes in office, didn't take them long. Evan Bayha never was liked Obama from the beginning. Republicans dressed as Democratics.

Ms. Johnson Pearland, Texas (Sent Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:39 PM)

<< Previous

SEND A COMMENT

PLEASE READ: All comments must be approved before appearing in the thread; time and space constraints prevent all comments from appearing. We will only approve comments that are directly related to the blog, use appropriate language and are not attacking the comments of others.

Message (please, no HTML tags. Web addresses will be hyperlinked):

Your name, city and state (John Doe, Seattle, Wash.):

Your e-mail address (jdoe@msnbc.com):

Your website (it's okay if you don't have one):

Remember me? (We'll keep it private) Remember me?

TRACKBACKS

Trackbacks are links to weblogs that reference this post. Like comments, trackbacks do not appear until approved by us. The trackback URL for this post is: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/trackback.aspx?PostID=1841651