In This Issue:

Leading the Past Week; Legislative Branch; Executive Branch; Miscellaneous; and Upcoming Hearings.

Excerpt from Leading the Past Week -

It is a rare moment when we realize we are actually witnesses to history. So it was only fitting that this past week, while the baby boomer generation remembered where they were when they heard the news of the assassination of President Kennedy, Majority Leader Reid decided to execute the so-called “nuclear option.” Like so many things these days in our nation’s Capitol, the decision was simultaneously hailed or demonized, and while history will be the ultimate judge of things, it is clear that the decision will have a real impact on the remainder of the 113th Congress.