Category: Members of Congress

Thoughts on SPN 2009

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I have been missing from the site for several days and I’d like to explain why. I attended the State Policy Network 17th Annual conference in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina. Here is what I found: Some final thoughts on the State Policy Network‘s 17th Annual Conference. It was invigorating to be able to share a […]

 

AGW Bill On Life Support In Senate, Puppies May Die

Posted on by William Teach

I think we can firmly place this in the category of “good news for a Monday” The climate-change bill that has been moving slowly through the Senate will face a stark political reality when it emerges for committee debate on Tuesday: With Democrats deeply divided on the issue, unless some Republican lawmakers risk the backlash […]

 

10 Facts Every American Should Know About Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-Page Gov’t Takeover of Health Care

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Representative John Boehner (R-OH), Washington, Oct 29 Members of Congress and the American people are just beginning to look at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) 1,990-page government takeover of health care, but it’s already becoming clear just how costly and unsustainable this proposal is. From higher taxes on middle-class families to job-killing mandates on small […]

 

Any Minute Congress Could Re-Fund ACORN

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Earlier I noted that we need your voice to keep the pressure on our representatives to keep government funds out of the hands of the criminal organization ACORN. Today Byron York posted another reminder of this salient fact in his headlined, “Will Congress’ Defunding of ACORN Expire Saturday?” York concludes that it is unlikely that […]

 

FACT CHECK: Profits for Health Insurance Companies Far From Fat

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Associated Press posted an interesting piece revealing that the health insurance industry is far from the image that Democrats and other leftists want to present. Insurance companies are so often presented as rapacious, fat-cats ripping off all their customers and growing fat on profits. But the AP finds that reality does not quite fit […]

 

House Speaker Lacks Democrat Votes for ‘Public Option’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Despite assurances to the contrary, Politico.com is reporting that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D, Calif.) does not have the votes to include the so-called public option in the House version of Obamacare making it more likely that a “trigger” will be included instead. Politico also reports that Obama himself announced support for the […]

 

Senate Defeats Dem Leader Reid’s ‘Doc Fix’ Plan

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Roll Call is reporting that the $250 billion extension to the Medicare physician payment program was defeated in the Senate today. Reid couldn’t even get a simple majority losing in a 47 to 53 vote. Naturally Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev) blames the Republicans. Reid complained that the loss was a result of “activities […]

 

Democrats Still Against Transparency in Congress

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

According to McClatchy news, in the Democrat’s 2006 campaign book, in the “integrity” section, the Democratic leadership vowed that legislation would be posted online for 24 hours before consideration of the final versions of any bill. That promise coupled with their president’s claims that he’d post all bills online for five whole days — that’s […]

 

Illinois Rep. Biggert Introduces Defund ACORN Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

U.S. Representative Judy Biggert (R, Hinsdale, IL) introduced legislation last week intended to prevent misuse of federal housing counseling funds. “It’s abundantly clear that ACORN and its affiliates cannot be trusted as a federally certified entity,” said Biggert, a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee. “Given the group’s clear links to illegal and […]

 

Where I Come to Mark Kirk’s Aid

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am not a Mark Kirk fan. For me he is and always has been far too “moderate” on social issues and his now (maybe) retracted Cap and Tax vote sticks in my craw pretty badly. But Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly blog Political Animal unfairly and illicitly slammed Kirk on something he said […]

 

Healthcare Conference Call With Representatives Shadegg and Rodgers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Today at 4:30PM eastern a blogger conference call was held by Representatives John Shadegg (R, AZ) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R, WA). The subject we spoke about was that of House Republican’s ideas and problems on healthcare reform issues in both the Senate and the House. The following are my notes of the call, any […]

 

Carly Fiorina: A Possible Fit for Conservatives?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Cary Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and probable candidate for U.S. Senate from California, is starting to look like a viable choice for conservative voters in the Golden State, giving the GOP two conservatives from whom to chose. Fiorina’s bona fides have been a question to many California Republicans because she is a relative newcomer to […]

 

Michele Bachmann Dismisses MSNBC

Posted on by Dave Blount

As the corrupt liberal establishment that produced Comrade Obama continues to fail our country, it will give way to alternatives that are more responsive to our needs. An example is journalism, where upstart Fox News continues to smoke the duckspeaking propagandists that comprise its entrenched competition. Unless prevented by totalitarian means, political representation will follow […]

 

Dems False Talking Point of 80% Agreement

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama has repeatedly been heard to say that Congress agrees on “about 80% of what needs to be done” on healthcare. And many Democratic congressmen have been echoing this since Obama’s Sept. speech. The meme has been used to present their case as if Obamacare is somehow mostly acceptable by all concerned. Even some Republican […]

 

Resolution Denouncing Alan Grayson (D) Coming?

Posted on by William Teach

Catching up on the Alan Grayson affair from yesterday, in which I figured that there would be no condemnation resolution submitted by the GOP, well………. House Republicans changed course: on Wednesday and decided not to move forward with a resolution condemning Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Florida, for saying that the GOP health care plan calls for sick […]

 

Joe Wilson: Petition to Put Bills On Line for 72 Hours Before House Vote

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I was part of a small number of bloggers and Internet writers invited to speak with Representative Joe Wilson (R, SC) Friday afternoon. Rep. Wilson wanted to alert us all to a resolution that would provide that all bills that go through the House of Representatives would be posted on the Internet for 72 hours […]

 

Drop the gag order, Sebelius.

Posted on by Tabitha Hale

Who knew they still had a spine? Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Senate Republicans vowed to block President Barack Obama’s nominee for surgeon general and other health officials unless the government drops what they said is a “gag order” barring insurers from lobbying their Medicare policyholders on the health-insurance overhaul. The move by Senate Minority Leader […]

 

Brit Hasn’t a Clue About U.S. Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Many elitist American leftists like to go about claiming that it is only Americans that are dunces on foreign matters. There is some truth to the accusation that Americans are not knowledgeable about the rest of the world but if a column in the UK Telegraph is any indication it isn’t much better for Britain’s […]

 

Obama’s Website Quietly Drops Support of Public Option

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It looks like President Obama’s campaign site cum community organizing website, Organizing for America (OFA), has quietly dropped its claim that the “public option” is a “must” in its healthcare policies open letter to Congress. Originally the open letter told Congress that it “must” vote for the public option. The second bullet point in the […]

 

Rep. Kirk Suddenly a “No” on Cap and Tax? (Update With Video)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rep. Mark Kirk (R, IL) has been getting hammered by conservatives and moderate Republicans alike for his “yes” vote on the Cap and Trade bill. But at a recent appearance Kirk suddenly said he now intends to vote against the disastrous bill. The Obama administration admits that the Cap and Trade legislation will cost every […]

 

Obama’s Revival of the Republican Party

Posted on by Tabitha Hale

Upside of this administration: We all thought the GOP was dead. And slowly, they’re remembering what it means to be a Republican. Stacy Mott has said, and I’ve often quoted, that Obama is currently the leader of the conservative movement. Let’s face it, he’s done more to mobilize us than anyone else has. The numbers […]

 

Senators Stand By Prostitution, Tax Cheat Hiding ACORN

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Democratic Illinois Senators Durbin and Burris both voted to stand behind ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) in a Senate vote to defund the criminal organization this week. A measure placed in the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill was overwhelmingly passed by the Senate to defund the group over the […]

 

Nasty Tennis Player’s ‘Anger’… Just Like Joe Wilson?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It was bound to happen, but it might have been the Orlando Sentinel’s TV reviewer Hal Boedeker that was first out of the gate to compare the obscenity laden tirade disgorged at a tennis match by Serena Williams to the no more than annoyed outburst of “you lied” from Representative Joe Wilson during President Obama’s […]

 

Dodd Spokes Attacks Tea Party Movement

Posted on by Dan Riehl

Quite a professional Dodd employs, he even manages to work in the usual pathetic sexual inuendo while on the attack. Rob Simmons responds to Dodd below. Dodd’s campaign manager, Jay Howser, said that the tea-baggers have nothing to offer. “The great thing about the far right wing, extreme group of tea-baggers who have entertained us […]

 

Obamacare Gives Union Leaders Gov’t Power in Healthcare Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Kevin Mooney of the Washington Examiner has a piece from Sept. 2 that warns that H.R. 3200, the House healthcare bill, gives special consideration to union bosses for positions on various healthcare management boards. This means that Barack Obama is handing official government power to union bosses! Sections 123 and 2251 of H.R. 3200, the […]

 

Obama Talks Healthcare Tonight and it Doesn’t Matter

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama is going to offer “his” healthcare prescriptions tonight at a special joint session of Congress. But why is he doing this now? After all, the bills are already written and most of the committees have already passed their versions out of committee. What is it that Obama will say that will make any […]