I don't have to be a regular in the White House Briefing Room to know what's going on right now. Both sides are digging in for the long haul. And it's going to get testy in coming weeks.

I know, I know. I'm probably boring you to death by going through the Cap and Trade bill with a fine tooth comb.

President Obama gets out the bully pulpit today on health care reform, as he holds a town hall meeting on the issue in Virginia, an event that the White House will also share on the internet.

The hard workers at the Government Printing Office have now added in the last minute extras that Democrats attached to the climate change/cap and trade bill, as it now tips the scales at 1,428 pages in all.

At 1,428 pages, the House-passed Cap and Trade/climate change bill is too big for me to print out here on my blog. So I thought I would give you a taste by simply listing the Table of Contents.

If you want any chance of finding a group of lawmakers from Congress in Washington, D.C. today, then I know exactly the place to be, and it isn't on Capitol Hill.

The White House briefing on Monday was a ritual in many ways, as the assembled reporters tried to get the White House Press Secretary to say something that he was just never going to say in front of a microphone.