Mar 26, 2015 – Thanks to the efforts of Sen. … at a later date: Voting soon on my amendment, Local Control of Education Act, to allow states to opt out of #CommonCore without … Passed my amendment to allow states to opt out of #CommonCore without penalty, prohibit federal mandates. — David Vitter (@DavidVitter…

Mar 26, 2015 – …All together, the tax breaks add up to $898 billion over the next decade, according to CBO. … …Most Republicans in Congress have voted numerous times to temporarily extend them. … And over the past year, the Republican-controlled House has voted to make some of the more popular ones permanent."…

Mar 25, 2015 – Unable to even get a hearing on desired changes to bills, Republicans answered Reid's control freak dysfunction by objecting to votes … Our plan would start to move us to a patient-centered system. … , who see it as an opportunity to reject allowing the perfect to become an enemy of the good -- and as a constructive way to adopt…

Mar 25, 2015 – The House of Representatives had a unique opportunity this week to vote for real entitlement reform, without having to swallow a tax … [o]thers tighten eligibility rules to achieve savings, and others are likely to catch and block some attempts at Medicare fraud.” … Voting YES this week is one place to start.…

Mar 25, 2015 – One… It’s nice to see the President’s budget proposals finally starting to build up some support. … (The Blaze) The State Department is basically telling America that we need to accept a deal with Iran, in order to find out what is … (NY Post) A Nebraska lawmaker tried to equate American police officers with ISIS terrorists, claiming cops have authority to kill…

Mar 25, 2015 – To bolster his case, Mr. … CNN helpfully notes that, “less than 37% of eligible voters actually voted in the 2014 midterm elections, according to The Pew Charitable … There is only one reason to oppose common-sense electoral reforms and to push instead for universal registration – to make it easier…

Mar 25, 2015 – And now that the FCC has voted for the third time in the last decade to institute “net neutrality,” it’s fair to ask if we’re about … to see it online. … It needs to be eradicated, not embraced. The government is here, all right, but not to help. Time to hit “delete.”…

Mar 24, 2015 – HBO used to show Hollywood movies. MTV and VH1 used to show music videos. They all migrated to creating original content. Why? … to the extermination of Jews. … PS: Friends, we need to find a way to break the Big Ed cartel's insistence that a degree is the only way.…

Mar 24, 2015 – It means pushing the Obama administration to present out its own peace plan, and to punish -- yes, punish -- the Israeli government … But none of that matters to the left. The left lives in John Lennon's song "Imagine." … As I wrote some 30 years ago: "Being on the left means never having to say you're sorry."…

Mar 23, 2015 – It doesn’t seem so hard to appreciate why the Israeli prime minster, and those who voted for him, are not anxious to turn political … and swept him back to power. … Yet, in January, President Obama cut short a trip to India so that he could go to Saudi Arabia and pay respects to their newly installed…

Mar 22, 2015 – to reinvest in the public housing stock." … The peculiarity is not hard to explain. … The feds are also partly to blame.…

Mar 22, 2015 – “It would be transformative if everybody voted,” President Obama said. … If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.” … To force people to vote goes directly against America’s founding principle of freedom.…

Apr 10, 2015 – To its credit, the gay rights movement has worked hard to shift culture and opinion. … to coast. … The Supreme Court declaring it legal and imposing it on states that voted to prohibit it will not, like with abortion, change church…

Apr 10, 2015 – On March 26, 2015, just a few days after the five-year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, a GOP-led House of Representatives did the unthinkable: They strengthened Obamacare. They passed the Doc Fix—eliminating the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) and extending the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)....

Apr 9, 2015 – Oklahoma is about to join Kansas and become the second state to pass a bill banning the dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion technique … The Oklahoma Senate voted yesterday on the Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act as well as a bill that required … South Carolina and Missouri are also considering bills to ban D&E abortions in their states.…

Apr 9, 2015 – that I wanted to like." … He rejects same-sex marriage, which he attributes to a "moral crisis." … As Paul said of Obama, I'd like to be able to like him. But he doesn't make it easy.…

Apr 8, 2015 – McCain gone–and the Senate Conservative Fund appears to fired the first salvo in that effort. … In an email to supporters, SCF President, Ken Cuccinelli listed the reasons not to support the incumbent Republican: There are … He voted for the Wall Street bailout, to fund the implementation of Obamacare, for the $600 billion "fiscal cliff" tax hike, and to…

Apr 8, 2015 – The bill did not get the two-thirds needed to pass under a suspension of the rules, but it did get a majority: 220 members voted for … Six Democrats voted for this version, which allowed a doctor to kill a 20-week-or-older unborn child if the child was conceived in … If we human beings have a God-given right to life -- which we do -- it belongs to all of us, not only to those who belong to groups…

Apr 7, 2015 – Yet, it’s not impossible to be a Republican and win in Allegheny; Tom Corbett was able to beat Democrat Dan Onorato by a meager 460 … challenger to former Rep. … "I really believe if we want to make the city safer, to prevent crime, we need to create more early-child education opportunities,…

Apr 6, 2015 – The question prompted Bill O’Reilly to tell Factor viewers that night: “Now, I truly hope this bogus sexism business is not going to … And I’m here to tell you: it is awful. … Detractors will be quick to accuse me of misogyny, and unwilling to accept female leadership. Not true.…

Apr 6, 2015 – his neighbors, he can do it only on the political terms his neighbors have voted to allow. … We have a natural right to labor and to produce for our own gain and survival. … What's at stake here is whether everyone in the world has to salute and bow down to new definitions of marriage, family, and social…

Apr 5, 2015 – When it comes to local politics, Republicans continue to show they understand how to win – even in Democratic territory. … At the state and local level, Republicans are actively working to identify potential leaders who are ready to run and able to win. … as we move forward to 2016.…

Apr 3, 2015 – The Republicans are going to promote growth, while the Democrats are going to argue for fairer distribution of income. … “That has to change for us to win,” he said. … They voted against the union.…

Apr 2, 2015 – to win. … He explains the rest here; fewer whites voted in 2012 (72 percent) than in 2008 (74 percent), and that’s true when you go back to 2004 … direction from upstate New York to New Mexico, according to Trende.…

Apr 2, 2015 – of their constitutional right to hunt with their kids, to protect their families, and to otherwise enjoy their God-given right to keep … In 1986, Congress voted to create a program (at 18 U.S.C. 925(c)) to allow Americans subject to a federal gun ban to petition the Bureau … Face it: For an American to use the 1986 program to successfully petition BATF for a restoration of his or her gun rights would be…