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It's Past Time to Expand Domestic Refining Capacity
https://townhall.com/columnists/repjoepittsandrepphilenglish…008/06/23/its_past_time_to_expand_domestic_refining_capacity
– In light of this situation, House Republicans have taken to utilizing a little used procedural tool called a discharge petition, in … order to highlight the difference between our conference and the Democrat Majority on the very serious issue of energy security.…
A Chance for McCain
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/2008/06/23/a_chance_for_mccain
– Ryan has proposed far too much to handle for nervous House Republican leaders. … Ryan, 38, top Republican on the House Budget Committee, has been working closely with freshman Rep. … But who will be in the White House?…
How to Hit Obama
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/2008/06/21/how_to_hit_obama
– In contrast, the demand to "drill now" (first urged this year by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich) has taken hold. … A footnote: A challenge to his House colleagues by Republican Rep. … Only one was a Democrat: Neal Abercrombie of Hawaii, which has especially high gasoline prices.…
Truckers Call for Gas Tax Holiday, Question Global Warming Legislation
https://townhall.com/columnists/mattpurple/2008/06/20/trucke…all_for_gas_tax_holiday,_question_global_warming_legislation
– They’re specifically directing their anger at Democrat-controlled State Assembly for refusing a vote on a proposed gas tax holiday … It was introduced on Tuesday and is scheduled for a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee next week.…
Only Action Can Put America Back in Drive
https://townhall.com/columnists/tomprice/2008/06/20/only_action_can_put_america_back_in_drive
– As much as House Democrat leadership may wish it to be, exasperation is not an energy policy. … In the past few weeks, House Republicans have laid out a true energy action plan.…
There Will Be Straight-Jackets
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/tomdelay/2008/06/20/there_will_be_straight-jackets
– It’s official: House Democrats have gone insane.  … majority of the United States House of Representatives demands that we… wait for it… nationalize our oil refineries? … Not a secret plan, mind you, but something House Democrats – including their supposedly level-headed leaders – believe is within the…
Obama and The Don't Drill Democrats To America: Don't Drive. Just Shut Up and Sweat In Your Dark House.
https://townhall.com/columnists/hughhewitt/2008/06/19/obama_…merica__dont_drive_just_shut_up_and_sweat_in_your_dark_house
– To get the exploration underway a federal ban on such off shore drilling must be lifted, but House Democrats have blocked that move … House Republicans should offer a new amendment lifting the ban on outer continental shelf drilling if the price of gas hit $6.00 a … A vote for any Democrat from Obama on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.…
Hey, You Can't Post There!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/michelebachmann/2008/07/08/hey,_you_cant_post_there!
– doing in Washington, what they are saying, and what they are proposing – on websites that are not “approved” by the Committee on House … Members use to communicate with constituents would have to make their way through a complicated, arcane, and restrictive set of House … Michael Capuano (D-MA), and is being considered for adoption by the Committee on House Administration, chaired by Rep.…
Life Outside
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnmccaslin/2008/07/07/life_outside
– Nonetheless, 51 percent of those polled indicated a preference for a Democrat, while only 35 percent care to deposit another Republican … in the White House to follow President Bush. … The birthday gift presented Sunday night is described as "a simple wooden box made from a giant oak tree that fell on the White House
Barack Obama Embraces Theocracy
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulkengor/2008/07/07/barack_obama_embraces_theocracy
– It began with one of the first acts of Bush’s presidency: he signed an executive order creating a White House Office of Faith-Based … One such Democrat was Hillary Clinton. … Baker House, two boosters of faith-based initiatives.…
McCain Should Play 'Pin Obama on the Donkey'
https://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2008/07/04/mccain_should_play_pin_obama_on_the_donkey
– The majority of voters want to vote for a Democrat and for Obama. … If, as expected, the Democrats win large majorities in the House and Senate, Obama won't need Republicans for anything, and there's … But the Democrats who would truly run the country if they controlled both the Congress and the White House do indeed have a long…
Ohio's Rising GOP Star
https://townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/2008/07/03/ohios_rising_gop_star
– Given that he’s a Republican in a two-to-one Democrat district in the Cleveland area, Mandel will need to give a lot more sterling … But with the GOP having a razor-thin four seat majority in the Ohio House, Mandel will be facing a tidal wave of cash from his opponent…
Imagining the Election
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2008/07/02/imagining_the_election
– he's been through all this before in the 2000 primary campaign against George Bush (not too mention weathering two terms in the House … This campaign is not just about liberal/conservative or Democrat/Republican.…
James Hansen's Hissy Fit
https://townhall.com/columnists/amyridenour/2008/07/02/james_hansens_hissy_fit
– Eleven Congresses -- five Democrat, six Republican -- have declined to limit greenhouse gas emissions since Hansen’s much-celebrated … testimony before Colorado Democrat Tim Wirth’s Senate Committee in June 1988. … Compared to the House, the Senate’s been a powerhouse -- with offsets, one assumes -- of global warming alarmism.…
Book Soon
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnmccaslin/2008/06/30/book_soon
– Whether Democrat or Republican, presidential inaugural-goers are urged to make lodging reservations sooner rather than later, as rooms … "Neither Gerald Ford, an amiable Republican, nor Jimmy Carter, a managerial Democrat, could provide a national vision that healed and … Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins is not letting Democrat Barack Obama forget what he had to say recently about the sanctity of…
Memo to the Bush Administration: If Drilling Is That Important, Act That Way
https://townhall.com/columnists/hughhewitt/2008/07/17/memo_t…_administration__if_drilling_is_that_important,_act_that_way
– They'd rather win the presidency and expand their majorities in the House and the Senate than bring price relief to average Americans … I interviewed both White House Communications Director Ed Gillispie and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne this week.  … We are watching the effects of a Democrat-created oil shock, and Democrats on the Hill --led by Obama-- are very bit as responsible…
Hang Five
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnmccaslin/2008/07/17/hang_five
– In referring an Article of Impeachment this week to the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Dennis J. … "Think about this," said the Ohio Democrat. … blasting The Washington Post and the New York Times for their front-page treatment of the two presumptive presidential nominees, Democrat
The Gathering Threat to Freedom
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2008/07/17/the_gathering_threat_to_freedom
House Speaker Pelosi is hinting at reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, and many of her liberal colleagues in Congress are doing the … The Democrat-controlled Congress at the time passed legislation to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, but President Reagan vetoed the…
Cost of Cronyism
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/2008/07/17/cost_of_cronyism
– After prominent Democrat James A. … Richard Baker could not find a single House co-sponsor for his reform bill. … He lost his bid to become ranking Republican on the House Financial Services Committee though he had seniority, and then retired from…
Rush, Sean: We Need Your Help to Bring Down Gas Prices
https://townhall.com/columnists/timwalberg/2008/07/14/rush,_sean_we_need_your_help_to_bring_down_gas_prices
– Republicans in the House are working daily to push for more American energy production. … House Republicans across the country are doing the same while the Democrat Leadership stands in the way. … House Republicans need your help to galvanize the American people behind our legislation to increase American energy production.…
Oil Paranoia
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/2008/07/14/oil_paranoia
– A centrist Democrat, he is what Speaker Sam Rayburn once referred to as a "workhorse" rather than a "showhorse." … Testifying before the House Agriculture Committee last Wednesday about this need, he rejected supply and demand as pushing up oil prices…
A 180 on Drilling in Alaska
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/michelebachmann/2008/07/11/a_180_on_drilling_in_alaska
– Yesterday, CongressNow reported that House Democrats will soon schedule a bill that calls for expanded oil and gas production in Alaska … 'Democrats support increasing the domestic production of petroleum and other energy resources,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer ( … It looks like the pressure for the Democrat Leadership to actually do something has become too much to handle.…
An "Underwhelming" Nominee
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/2008/07/10/an_underwhelming_nominee
– candidates, Gus at one point considered backing Obama but ended up with Clinton because she seemed the best-qualified, most electable Democrat … Davis, who had been a Clinton White House aide and remains a fervent supporter of both Clintons, rose to say the presidential contest…
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2008/07/10/unconventional_wisdom
– It is understandable that those who think President Bush has done a poor job want to replace him with a Democrat they think might … these astounding figures, why do polls show that as of now a majority of voters intend to vote for the Democratic candidate in House … In a recent McLaughlin and Associates poll, 43 percent said they would vote for the Democrat and just 34 percent would vote for the…
Why the ACORN Stonewall?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2008/07/09/why_the_acorn_stonewall
– Feeney, Royce and Hensarling have called upon Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee for an investigation.Why … the Democrat stonewall -- and the MSM silence -- about ACORN?…
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