I'm a little confused. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) has list of 147 Republican Congresspersons who have pledged to vote to sustain any presidential veto of FY 2008 spending bills.

News and Analysis Military Construction/VA Bill -- The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies adopted by voice vote the draft $109.2 billion spending bill, $4 billion more than President Bush's request. The full Appropriations Committee is expected take up the bill Thursday.

A report published today by Media Matter for America and the Campaign for America's Future challenges the conventional wisdom that the ideological attitude of Americans regarding taxation is conservative. A majority of Americans think their taxes are too high, a conservative theme, but they don't care about it that much. Taxes generally rank low in the list of Americans' priorities, and taxes are never number one. The report cites an April 2007 Gallop poll indicating that fully 41 percent of Americans believe that amount they pay in taxes is not too high or too low, but "just right."

Embattled GSA Administrator Lurita Doan returned to Capitol Hill today for a hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) invited Doan to testify in the continuing saga of her tenure - this time to examine statements made by Doan that impugn the reputation of federal officials who cooperated with a Committee investigation into Ms. Doan's conduct at the General Services Administration. There was plenty of fireworks at the hearing, particularly because of the release one week earlier of a report by the White House's Office of Special Counsel that found Doan had broken the law by violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits the use of government resources for political activity.