burgess everett is a reporter for politico.com. he covers congress. out of all the beat reporters in national politics, dedicated congressional reporters are often the most fun to watch. and that's because of the sort of breath of their beat. sometimes in congress they are covering gigantic stories of national significance and even potentially international significance like confirmation hearings for a new justice for the united states supreme court. sometime they're covering the biggest story you can imagine. even when there isn't a huge earth-shaking story like that, congressional beat reporters have to be there in congress covering whatever is happening on any given day. so today a reporter got to cover the supreme court nomination hearings for brett kavanaugh, a huge deal. but he had to cover the other stuff that happen in the senate today which i flernd mr. everett's twitter feed today included the senate apparently passing a resolution today confirming that september is school bus safety month. i had no idea. a couple weeks ago he had this. migh

and on july 19th, seven weeks ago, burgess everett, was apparently right outside senator durb durbin's office. he ended at the same spot and able to report this, mcconnell withdraws bounds nomination. i am hear democrats literally chaering in senator durbin's office. democrats were not going around in the halls openly cheering and celebrating what just happened. they did burst into cheering behind closed doors. doors that apparently were not thick enough to block congressional reporters or at least one of them from hearing them start to shout and celebrate inside senator durbin's office. what the democrats were celebrating that day was this guy. not becoming a judge. for everything else the trump administration have proved themselves incapable of not doing. republicans in the senate under president obama had a strategy about this. they held open every single judicial seat they could for as long as they could including a seat on the supreme court. they just would not let the obama white house put any federal judges through and so in the obama years with republicans in control of the sen

burgess everett is a reporter for politico.com. he covers congress.l the beat reporters in national politics, dedicated congressional reporters are often the most fun to watch. and that's because of the sort of breath of their beat. sometimes in congress they are covering gigantic stories of national significance and even potentially international significance like confirmation hearings for a new justice for the united states supreme court. sometime they're covering the