Results for: House Democrat
In the Long Run, Civility Prevails
https://townhall.com/columnists/salenazito/2011/01/30/in_the_long_run,_civility_prevails
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House. “You had an extremely divided institution. We could barely elect a speaker. … Despite the volatility of that 37th Congress, Wasniewski said it was one of the most productive in House history: “It is amazing by … said Wasniewski, recalling an 1858 altercation on the House floor over admitting Kansas into the Union.…
MARRIAGE DIGEST: Marriage amend. blocked in Iowa; French court rejects 'gay marriage'
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/01/28/marr…age_amend_blocked_in_iowa;_french_court_rejects_gay_marriage
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amendment itself, but supporters of the amendment said they had no other option because senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal -- a Democrat … The amendment is expected to pass the Republican-controlled house. … The proposal passed, 21-9, and must pass twice more before it heads to the House, where approval could be more difficult.…
Q&A: pro-life Rep. Chris Smith says pro-choice position has become 'acceptable bigotry'
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-N.J., leads a pro-life caucus that was greatly strengthened by the November election in a House of Representatives that now has a … Baptist Press interviewed Smith Jan. 6, the day after he was sworn in for his 16th House term. … This is a population-control zealot in the White House and at in Hillary Clinton, who is in awe of Margaret Sanger. ...…
Appeasing the Gods in Hawaii
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2011/01/28/appeasing_the_gods_in_hawaii
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During the period he sent the letter, Jefferson attended weekly Christian services held in the House of Representatives. … District Judge David Hamilton that had barred the Indiana House from mentioning Jesus in opening prayers. … The Senate’s mighty Republican bloc of two rejected it, along with a single Democrat who worried about church-state separation.…
Islamic Terrorists Have Been Targeting Our Southern Border for Years -- And Our Government Knows It
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/chrisfield/2011/01/27/islamic_…our_southern_border_for_years_--_and_our_government_knows_it
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John Culberson, R-Texas, a member of the House committee receiving the director's testimony, later reported on the hearing to radio … If people saw that, it would be the kind of thing that would also force the White House to deal with that aspect.CORNYN: To some extent … For me, it doesn't matter if you're a Republican or a Democrat, if you won't be serious about national security, I'm not sure why you're…
Hope, Change, and "Invest"
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2011/01/26/hope,_change,_and_invest
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I feel so Southern whenever I watch a Democrat give a State of the Union address -- and not just because it makes me want to secede … I do it only when a Democrat is giving a speech. … And if liberals didn't like Samuel Alito mouthing the words "not true," they should be really happy I wasn't in the House chamber Tuesday…
Groan: Democratic Congressman Blames Tucson Shootings on "Violent Political Expression"
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Which Democrat is blindly clinging to this discredited narrative weeks later, you ask? None other than impeached judge Rep. … As Democrats' Obamacare push entered its frenzied finalstages, Hastings famously told the House Rules Committee that passage rules … years after his ignominious fall from grace, the people of Florida's 23rd Congressional District saw fit to elect him to the US House…
Trusting in Man: Behind Political Calculations Lie Theological Assumptions
https://townhall.com/columnists/marvinolasky/2011/01/26/trus…an_behind_political_calculations_lie_theological_assumptions
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That even partial-birth abortion—which fellow Democrat Patrick Moynihan said was "too close to infanticide"—should be legal? … They would lose some big funders and a radical feminist core, yet pick up so many votes that the House of Representatives would be…
Democrats' War on Paul Ryan
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/01/25/democrats_war_on_paul_ryan
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“We want to make the House Republicans or Republicans at large own his roadmap and what it would entail for Social Security.” … Schumer of New York, the No. 3 Democrat.…
Surprise: Pelosi's Dopey "Green the Capitol" Initiative Actually Increased Energy Consumption
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House Administration Chairman Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) is moving to suspend the House composting program after a review showed the program … was actually increasing the House’s overall energy consumption, the House Administration Committee announced Monday. … low-flow toilets in House office buildings, bringing organic foods into the House cafeterias and incorporating recyclable utensils…
Pillars and Bipartisan Pairs
https://townhall.com/columnists/janiceshawcrouse/2011/01/25/pillars_and_bipartisan_pairs
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According to the White House, President Obama is planning to focus on “five pillars” during his 2011 State of the Union address — … The president says that his focus will be “jobs” and, according to Chip Reid, the White House correspondent for CBS News, he used the … Time, and the polls, will reveal the extent to which his address succeeds in distancing him and the Democrat party from the brutal…
Is Obama Flouting Traditional Bipartisan Traditions?
https://townhall.com/columnists/elisabethmeinecke/2011/01/25/is_obama_flouting_traditional_bipartisan_traditions
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Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, has been supportive of. In fact, he made the process public. … Democrat Sen. Rick Blumenthal’s office did not respond to Townhall’s inquiry. … Johnson, who replaced Democrat Sen.…
George Allen to Announce Senate Run Today
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/01/24/george_allen_to_announce_senate_run_today
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Allen very narrowly lost his re-election bid to Democrat Jim Webb in 2006, a terrible political year for Republicans. … Webb may see the writing on the wall: Virginia Democrats endured a thorough rout in 2009, and lost three House seats last November…
House Health Care Repeal More Reality TV than Theater
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The House repeal vote was important because the House is the legislative body closest to the people, and the people voted unequivocally … I challenge any sitting Democrat who continues to push socialized medicine on us to move into any of our inner cities and find out … The House repeal of Obamacare was not theater. It was reality TV.…
Obama Economy Not Looking Up
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2011/02/08/obama_economy_not_looking_up
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Kennedy was a pro-growth, free trade, lower tax rate Democrat who eschewed playing the class warfare card that Democrats and Obama … The GOP has taken control of the House, added six seats in the Senate, and is now poised to strengthen its forces in the House and…
Chicken Little and the Debt Ceiling
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Bush were in the White House, seem unconcerned about debt now that a Democrat is president. … On the same day Bernanke made his "catastrophic" comment, House Republicans unveiled their plan to cut $32 billion out of the budget … The Republican Study Committee, a conservative bloc of House members, wants to hold Boehner to his original promise.…
Wither Moderate Democrats
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/02/07/wither_moderate_democrats
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There's been "no communication" this Congress between House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and members of the centrist Blue … for the job of Democratic leader in the 112th Congress, suggested that Blue Dog Democrats feel shut out from the leadership in the House … weekend.Mercilessly targeted by the Lefty fringe and utterly neglected by party leadership -- Why would any self-respecting, genuinely moderate Democrat…
Ronald Reagan: The Anti-Nixon/Kissinger
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulkengor/2011/02/07/ronald_reagan_the_anti-nixonkissinger
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As a Reagan biographer, I’m often asked how Reagan was different from his predecessors, Republican and Democrat, and especially in … The latest round of released tapes shows Kissinger offering an awful assessment to his White House boss on March 1, 1973. … Two decades later, in 1947, I discovered Reagan, as a young actor in Hollywood, a liberal Democrat, working with Eleanor Roosevelt…
The Obama Administration's TSA Giveaway
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the unions a sinecure that could result in as much as $11 million new dollars in dues -- much of that money will flow back into Democrat … It’s apparent that The White House never forgets a political favor.…
Republicans Poised to Win Senate
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that went so heavily Republican in 2010 (the GOP captured the governorship, both houses of the legislature, a Senate seat and more House … And, in Montana, Democrat John Tester, who won by less than 1 point in 2006, is an easy target in a very red state.…
Hiding Behind Egypt
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to the floor, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) allowed a vote on Wednesday to consider the legislation which passed the House … Given what happened in the House last November, this was a good plan. … The Democrat-controlled Senate did join the Republican-controlled House in repealing that portion of Obamacare which required small…
Happy Birthday, President Reagan
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shared Reagan's birthday, and I often wondered what he would have thought had he lived to see his daughter working in the White House … Rudy was a staunch Democrat of the New Deal variety. … Commission on Civil Rights and later as director of public liaison in the White House, I got to see the president up close.…
Senate blocks repeal of health care legislation; 'disappointing,' ERLC says
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/02/03/sena…_repeal_of_health_care_legislation;_disappointing,_erlc_says
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The repeal campaign by foes of the controversial law came to a halt two weeks after the House of Representatives had voted 245-189 … While no Democratic senators voted for repeal, three House Democrats supported the bill in the Jan. 19 vote. … ERLC public policy specialist Barrett Duke described the Senate vote as "very disappointing," adding that the failure of any Democrat…
A Color Blind(ed) Society
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2014/05/01/a-color-blinded-society-n1830953
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A nation that is nowhere near what it was in the Democrat-created Jim Crow days is being portrayed as just as bad as it ever was for … Given Democrats controlled the House of Representatives from 2007 till 2011, the Senate since 2007 and the White House since 2009, … Senator to drop the N-bomb, and do so repeatedly, was Democrat and former KKK member Robert Byrd.)…