The Chronicle D.C. bureau’s Samantha Levine serves up some “olds” today:
Sen. John Cornyn is considering a run to be the next vice chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, the No. 5 Senate leadership position now held by his Texas colleague, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Hutchison, who is term-limited in her slot, is going for the chairmanship of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, the No. 4 post.
If Cornyn triumphs, it would create a fairly unusual circumstance in which one state’s senators hold two of the top five leadership posts.
As we previously noted, the news appeared in The Hill on July 19. The Chronicle D.C. bureau added nothing substantive to that reporting — not even a quote from Sen. Cornyn or his office.
Why in the world maintain a bureau that seems constantly to advertise its lack of access?
Elsewhere in the story, Levine writes the following:
Watching C-Span on a weeknight can be a good way to get to know the Texas House delegation.
She might have added, “certainly better than the Chronicle‘s D.C. bureau.”
