Leader Interview and Rules Shenanigans

Reader Elmer sent in a link to a Corning Leader interview with Eric Massa. It's lengthy and wide-ranging.

Massa says that committee assignments are open, and that he'd only consider the Armed Services committee as leverage to get his number one choice, Agriculture. Massa also pledged to hold weekly teleconferences, "real town-hall meetings", host a radio show and discuss his votes in advance.

Randy Kuhl is mentioned in a Congressional Quarterly inside baseball analysis of the Democrats' effort to limit the motion to recommit. The motion to recommit has been used by the minority to kill bills, and Democrats want to make it tougher for that to happen. Randy's efforts to help kill the AmeriCorps volunteer program are mentioned as an example of the use of that motion.

Update: Elmer sent the Leader front page [pdf] to give an idea of the kind of play this interview got. It's huge.