Nov 28, 2011 – Rick Perry came in for much ridicule for his televised failure to remember which three federal agencies he has pledged to eliminate … Such a thing is beyond the realm of possibility, and to believe otherwise is to labor under hopeless delusion. … Responding to seemingly sensible calls for members to read the health care bills before they vote on them, Mr.…

Nov 28, 2011 – According to Mr. … Not wanting to repeat the mistakes of Stimulus 1.0, every single Republican Senator voted against Reid’s political gimmick. … According to those familiar with negotiations, House Transportation Chairman John Mica (R-FL) began to chart a course to live within…

Nov 27, 2011 – Please, we give the other side reasons to ignore us and discount our message when we stoop to name calling. … to Break Welfare Empire. … pay more tax than to try to get more from the middle class that has been devastated since 2008. – in response to The Broken President…

Dec 16, 2011 – For the first time, the poll found that a majority of adults, 52 percent, said Obama should be voted out of office while 43 percent … About half of the respondents oppose the health care law and support for it dipped to 29 percent from 36 percent in June. … Just 15 percent said the federal government should have the power to require all Americans to buy health insurance.…

Dec 16, 2011 – How ironic would it have been for the United States to allow its commission to lapse? … continue to serve for at least one more term to provide institutional memory to the commission," he said. … Among its responsibilities is to make a yearly report on global conditions for religious adherents and to recommend to the State Department…

Dec 16, 2011 – It had to begin at home. … His family stood to make millions more than they’d ever made selling cotton by selling access to the river. … They voted out Jimmy Carter and voted in Ronald Reagan, who campaigned on the same themes.…

Dec 15, 2011 – Even though Social Security is spending more than it takes in, the president wanted to shave workers' Social Security taxes to 3.1 … There's no way to compel future Congresses to comply. … And it will be awfully hard to vote against a free lunch.…

Dec 14, 2011 – tried to scuttle them. … His repeated capitulation to Clinton led former Vice President Dan Quayle to remark that the Republican "Contract With America" had … After Gingrich had been speaker for a brief two years, the Republican House voted 395-28 to reprimand him and fine him $300,000 for…

Dec 14, 2011 – The bad version, the one the House voted on but failed to pass, simply requires that expenditures be equal to income. … : a vote purely to provide political cover to senators who are in tough fights for re-election next November and who want to be able … to claim that they voted for a balanced budget amendment.…

Dec 13, 2011 – But when senators offered an amendment to specifically eliminate the Pleasure Beach Water Taxi earmark, McCaskill specifically voted … Lawmakers were allowed to insert unlimited spending items into appropriations bills to steer tax dollars to their states and districts … gases, to a $4.8 million payoff to the well-heeled lumber industry to study wood utilization in 11 states.…

Dec 12, 2011 – rushes to finish their end-of-year business. … to pay for our end of year needs. … Unanimous consent is granted for committee meetings, to begin debate, to proceed to legislation, etc.…

Dec 10, 2011 – The son of Texas Congressman and GOP hopeful Ron Paul – Kentucky Senator Rand Paul – appeared on CNN yesterday to discuss a recent … be a desperate attempt to undermine the Republican frontrunner only three and a half weeks before the Iowa Caucuses. … “We thought they sold out our limited government views when they voted to send taxpayer money to the big banks.…

Dec 10, 2011 – to compensate Palestinians for damages they incur while fighting Israel, to changing the route of the security barrier, to barring … would refuse to defend Galant's appointment. … The delay is due to the fact that the Justice Ministry has not bothered to publish the law's accompanying regulations.…

Dec 8, 2011 – Last week, the Senate voted 93-7 to pass S 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act. … An amendment by Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to limit military detentions to only those captured overseas failed by 55-35, and an amendment … Greenwald, one of the few on the left to honestly evaluate the bill, sums up the Act the best, “To be perfectly honest, I just couldn…

Dec 8, 2011 – The panel said it was required by federal law to make such preparations. … Among its responsibilities is to make a yearly report on global conditions for religious adherents and to recommend to the State Department … The House voted 391-21 in mid-September to reauthorize USCIRF for two more years, but the bill met a roadblock in the Senate.…

Dec 8, 2011 – WASHINGTON (AP) -- The issue may be dust in the wind, but Republicans are still moving to block it. … week to prevent such regulations. … to include dust created by agriculture.…

Dec 8, 2011 – Democratic politicians responded by seeking to assuage what they considered to be righteous grievances. … Blacks, who voted 62 percent for John Kennedy, have voted about 90 percent Democratic starting in 1964. … with strategies to bring the white working class back to what they considered their natural political home.…

Dec 7, 2011 – Tragically, 40 million children will go to bed tonight without a father in the home to teach them the economic facts of life. … At least that's what I try to be. … Hard work gave birth to the Greatest Generation; we are giving birth to the neediest.…

Dec 7, 2011 – "Republican X voted Y times to protect millionaires and billionaires from paying their 'fair share,' but when it came to protecting … This is not the hill to die on.  … His party opposes spending cuts of every sort except, of course, to defense, and gutting the Pentagon won’t get us remotely close to…

Dec 7, 2011 – THAT's what Republicans need to emphasize, and every minute spent trying to assign motivations to the President or talking about his … of them have already voted for him and hate to have to admit error, even in their own minds.   … It's one thing to have been misled about how capable or liberal Obama is; it's another for a voter to have to admit to herself that…

Dec 26, 2011 – Just hours after House Republicans voted to commence negotiations with the Senate over differing payroll tax measures, the White House … (to say the least). … How small would a car have to be to fill up for $40?…

Dec 26, 2011 – the state House has voted to turn down—at least for now—nearly $10 million in federal funds to create a statewide health exchange by … to the Cato Institute has recommended that states do: refuse to create an Exchange and send the money back to Washington. … “If we have to do it, I clearly want to have a state-based exchange,” he said.…

Dec 24, 2011 – In just six years the American people voted for a quasi-socialist welfare state they didn’t want to have to pay for, and a return to … We know what we’re supposed to be and supposed to look like, and yet we have no idea for how to get there. … to flourish.…

Dec 24, 2011 – And yet politicians love to promise to hand out benefits, but are often reluctant to pay for them. … “Congress has voted repeatedly to temporarily extend or increase existing reimbursement rates through deficit spending,” Peter Suderman … Because lawmakers have voted to cancel the annually-scheduled cuts, physician reimbursement rates are set to plunge by almost 30 percent…

Dec 23, 2011 – to marriage. … to support them." … He returned to Beijing for the movie's premier and invited the CNN crew to accompany him as he sought to visit Chen.…