Results for: House Democrat

Surprise: Obamacare's Price Tag Nearly Doubles
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/03/13/surprise_obamacares_price_tag_nearly_doubles
– As the fateful vote approached, Democrat leaders desperately needed a fig leaf to conceal the budget-busting math of their statist … CBO spat out a ten-year Obamacare price tag of $940 Billion, a figure that the White House and Congressional Democrats repeated endlessly … Though average Americans never got on board, just enough House Democrats did, many of whom wrapped themselves a $940 Billion veil of…
Chris Christie: I'd Be Much More Ready in 2016
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/erikajohnsen/2012/03/30/chris_christie_id_be_much_more_ready_in_2016
– Winfrey, who endorsed President Obama in 2008, asked Christie about the odds the Democrat will win another four years. … the campaign trail with Romney, and it feels like he's casting a shadow of a doubt as to whether Mitt Romney will occupy the White House
No Reason for Eeyores
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2012/03/30/no_reason_for_eeyores
– the GOP can point out that any repeal of ObamaCare will require not just a Republican president, but also a solid majority in the House … That's not great news for already-endangered senators like Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill.  …
BREAKING: House Passes 2013 Ryan Budget
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/03/29/breaking_house_passes_2013_ryan_budget
– The US House of Representatives has passed Rep. Paul Ryan's FY 2013 budget, largely along party lines.  … The House has thus fulfilled its legal obligation under the 1974 Budget Act, and has done so on time. … Last night, the House unanimously defeated President Obama's reckless budget by a vote of 414-0. …
Video: Paul Ryan Schools DWS on Medicare
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/03/29/video_paul_ryan_schools_dws_on_medicare
– - just as his FY 2012 version garnered zero votes in the Democrat-controlled Senate last year. … UPDATE - The never-balancing, tax-hiking House Progressive Caucus budget has been defeated, 76-346.  … UPDATE III - The House has defeated the Democrats' alternative budget, 163-262. …
Democrats: Hey, Let's Raise Taxes on Energy Suppliers
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/03/29/democrats_hey_lets_raise_taxes_on_oil_companies
– likelihood, it ultimately won't get the 60 votes it needs to pass the Senate, and in any case it would be dead on arrival in the House … That perverse and destructive mentality is alive and well in the modern Democrat Party. … UPDATE - White House spokesman Jay Carney can't explain why Senator Barack Obama voted in favor of the very tax breaks he now decries…
James Carville: It Sure Would Be Great for Democrats If The Court Overturns Obamacare!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/03/28/james_car…ould_be_great_for_democrats_if_the_court_overturns_obamacare
– But if they toss out the mandate (or the whole thing), it's the greatest day in the history of the Democrat Party, or something!  … and White House advocate a bill that the public doesn't want, relying upon wild promises that people don't believe. … Step 2: This Democrat juggernaut rams their unpopular bill through Congress with nary a single Republican vote, using backroom deals…
Conspiring with Russia
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2012/03/27/conspiring_with_russia
– Wouldn’t you like to have been in the White House Situation Room when the president decided to take out Osama bin Laden? … But a Baltimore lawyer, a top Democrat, Richard Cleveland, came to Chambers and told him to take heart. … That Democrat was the son of President Grover Cleveland. In those days, we could rely on both parties being loyal.…
Romney, Republicans and the Young
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/2012/03/26/romney_republicans_and_the_young
– "But I don't see how a young American can vote for a Democrat." … Bush left the White House, in fact, as the biggest spender since LBJ.…
Doing Nothing in the Town That Bipartisanship Forgot
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2012/03/25/doing_nothing_in_the_town_that_bipartisanship_forgot
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan introduced a hard-core GOP budget last week. … Last year, the Ryan budget passed the House in a 235-193 vote. No Democrats voted for the GOP plan. Only Republicans voted yes. … The Democratic Senate won't go for the GOP cuts, and House Republicans won't go for Obama's tax hikes.…
The Death of Trayvon Martin: Is There Nothing Progressives Won’t Exploit?
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2012/03/25/the_d…of_trayvon_martin_is_there_nothing_progressives_wont_exploit
– But when Media Matters is involved, you can bet the Democrat Party is pulling the strings. Enter MSNBC. … Especially when that trail leads to the White House.…
The Other 10.4 Million Jobs
https://townhall.com/columnists/bobbeauprez/2012/03/25/the_other_104_million_jobs
– Obama's finger pointing also ignores the fact that the economy he "inherited" in January 2009 was one given to him from a Democrat … controlled House and Senate. … When his party took control of the House and Senate following the 2006 elections, the unemployment was 4.4%.…
The Newest Right for which We Fight: Freedom from Obamacare
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2012/03/25/the_newest_right_for_which_we_fight_freedom_from_obamacare
– I have one idea: We could have individuals compete for the Democrat nomination to Illinois’ General Assembly while being indicted for … The map is tilted so heavily toward Democrats that the party led by House Speaker Michael Madigan, the Illinois Democratic chairman … Derrick Smith, a West Chicago Democrat, even after he was accused of taking a $7,000 cash bribe in a federal sting caught on an undercover…
Ryan's Budget Plan Reframes 2012 Election
https://townhall.com/columnists/peterferrara/2012/03/24/ryans_budget_plan_reframes_2012_election
– The budgets produced by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, and the votes in the Republican controlled House adopting them, … White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that Ryan's reforms would "change Medicare as we know it." … Or can the Democrat Party controlled media even accurately report or comment on the real world any more?…
The Redistribution of Health
https://townhall.com/columnists/christophermerola/2012/03/23/the_redistribution_of_health
– Let’s consider the basis upon which Obama and the Democrat Congress enacted the Obama Care law in the first place. … We were told by members of the Democrat Party and some of their cohorts in the media, that there were millions of Americans living … Yet, Obama Care raises taxes on many every day house hold items like Q-tips and tampons.…
MA-06: How Could Tierney Not Know
https://townhall.com/columnists/mikeshields/2012/03/23/ma06_how_could_tierney_not_know
– It became one point more Republican on the Partisan Voter Index and is the least Democrat leaning district in the state. … For her part, Tierney’s wife served jail time followed by house arrest. … This race is already garnering national attention and is quickly shaping up to be the marquee House race in Massachusetts.…
It Does Matter How You Vote
https://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2012/03/23/it_does_matter_how_you_vote
– The bill passed the Republican-controlled House of Delegates, but when it reached the Senate, three Republicans joined all 20 Democrats … Phillip Puckett, a Democrat. Delegate Richard Bell, a Republican, saw it differently. … at that meeting -- seething about the problem teacher and the clotted system that makes it so hard to get rid of him -- voted Democrat
Dems Still Attack More Energy Jobs
https://townhall.com/columnists/bobbeauprez/2012/03/23/dems_still_attack_more_energy_jobs
– Recently Colorado Democrats Diana DeGette and Jared Polis, along with New York Democrat Maurice Henchey, tried to resuscitate a 2009 … A page on DeGette’s own House website discusses how “wind, solar, hydro, and other sustainable energy sources [are] critical to our…
Balance of Power: The 2012 Senate Toss-Ups
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/erikajohnsen/2012/03/22/balance_of_power_the_2012_senate_tossups
– As the politically sentient are well aware, the 2012 election isn't just about the fight for the White House -- there's also the … Note also, as we said above, we are assuming that Maine elects King, who in effect becomes an Independent Democrat akin to Connecticut…
Rep. Chu to make personal plea against military hazing
https://townhall.com/columnists/townhallcomstaff/2012/03/22/rep_chu_to_make_personal_plea_against_military_hazing
– The California Democrat has spoken out on military hazing since the death of her nephew, Lance Cpl. Harry Lew, last year. … Judy Chu (D-Calif.), whose nephew committed suicide in Afghanistan after he was hazed by his fellow Marines, will join the House Armed…
Teen-abortion bill would give parents a say
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2012/03/21/teenabortion_bill_would_give_parents_a_say
– A House of Representatives subcommittee heard testimony from supporters and opponents of the measure in a March 8 hearing. … Jerrold Nadler of New York, the lead Democrat on the House constitution subcommittee and a bill foe, pointed to an example of a child … Since 1998, the bill -- in various forms -- has received approval from the House but has gained passage in the Senate only once.…
Stopping the National Debt: A Movement Led By a Cowboy, a Colonel, and a Citizens' Cavalry
https://townhall.com/columnists/ralphbenko/2012/03/21/stoppi…_a_movement_led_by_a_cowboy_a_colonel_and_a_citizens_cavalry
– grail of conservatives, libertarians, populists like the Tea Party Patriots, and the fiscally responsible — whether Republican or Democrat … The NDRA is a crucial step in keeping our nation’s fiscal house in order.”…
Obama Regulation Overview Yields a Phony Four Reforms
https://townhall.com/columnists/bobbeauprez/2012/03/21/obama_regulation_overview_yields_a_phony_four_reforms
– A 180 degree difference from what they say and what they do has become standard-operating-procedure at the Obama White House.  … A year later, the White House announced the results of their effort highlighting just four regulations they found and targeted for … review, the head Democrat in the Senate, Harry Reid, mocked efforts by Republicans in the House to provide some real regulation relief…
Land: Santorum should consider dropping out
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2012/04/09/land_santorum_should_consider_dropping_out
– Land said during the April 8 program the former senator has done a "remarkable job on a shoestring budget" in his run for the White House … well that the Republican Party is not the "only party that tries to claim God for themselves," listing several occasions where Democrat
For This Old Socialist, Maxine Waters, Socialism Starts at Home
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2012/04/09/for_this_old_socialist_maxine_waters_socialism_starts_at_home
– financial services were battered under Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, wait until you see who’s batting cleanup for the Democrats in the House … Maxine Waters, the ranking Democrat on the Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee of the House Financial … Waters, 74, is next in line of seniority on the House committee after Rep. Barney Frank retires this year.…
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