The U.S. Senate had the opportunity tonight to give 1,700 low-income children in the District of Columbia the chance for a better education. Instead, voting mostly along party lines, 58 senators sided with liberal special interests to defeat an amendment saving the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), who attended a private high school and sent his kids to private school, inserted a | Read More »
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was unable to secure the 60 votes needed for cloture on the $410 billion omnibus spending bill tonight, setting the stage for a showdown Monday on the future of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. Democrat leaders tried in vain to prevent amendments to the omnibus. But it was ultimately three of their own — Sens. Evan Bayh (D-IN), Russ | Read More »
The audacity of congressional Democrats is absolutely astonishing. Less than two months into the 111th Congress, they have made one of their top targets ending a popular scholarship program for 1,700 low-income D.C. students. The $7,500 scholarships are the best thing that’s happened for District of Columbia students in the past decade — and one of the best investments Congress has made in education reform. | Read More »
The first major policy battle of President-elect Barack Obama’s administration will set the tone for the next year for the Republican minority. With that in mind, House GOP Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is pulling out the big guns. Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will testify at 10 a.m. Thursday at a hearing on Obama’s economic stimulus ideas. Romney brings to the table business experience | Read More »
House Republican Whip Eric Cantor wants you to have a seat at the table as Congress debates the best way to promote economic growth. The Virginia Republican opened his website to public comments and encouraged citizens to send video submissions via YouTube. Cantor has made transparency an important factor in the economic stimulus debate. Earlier in the week, he challenged Obama to create a real-time | Read More »
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her Democrat allies are poised to rewrite House rules today, ending term limits for committee chairmen and curtailing a procedural motion for Republicans to offer alternative legislation. Changing the rules will make it easier for Democrats to raise taxes without opposition. Republicans successfully used the “motion to recommit” several times in the 110th Congress, often frustrating Pelosi. The GOP’s crafty | Read More »
One of the first acts of the 111th Congress will be an all-Democrat hearing stacked with five sympathetic witnesses who favor some version of a massive economic stimulus package. Republicans aren’t invited and no conservative viewpoints will be presented. Is this the openness and honesty that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) promised when she was elected? To hear Pelosi tell it, there’s no reason to delay | Read More »
House Republicans elected several new committee ranking members today, but the most important move was forcing disgraced Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) to give up his spot atop the Natural Resources Committee. As RedState reported earlier today, Republican Leader John Boehner informed Young that he would not support his candidacy, sealing his fate. It’s too bad Boehner didn’t take the same tough stance against earmark-addicted Rep. | Read More »
UPDATE: The results are in! The House Republican Steering Committee gathers today on Capitol Hill to interview a slate of candidates for ranking member on several important committees. These members will shape the future of the party and the direction it’s headed in the 111th Congress. Although few people outside the beltway will be watching, there are four important races to follow: 1) Scandal-plagued Rep. | Read More »
Here’s a little known fact about the Big Three automakers: The average unionized worker costs his or her employer about $75 an hour in wages and benefits. That’s more than $130,000 a year — three times as much as the typical American worker. With executives for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler pleading their case for a government bailout, it’s worth remembering the UAW’s role in | Read More »
Reps. Thaddeus McCotter and Dave Camp want to be among the next generation of House GOP leaders. McCotter is running for reelection as chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee and Camp is angling to be ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee. Both lawmakers hail from Michigan, and for that reason, they support a bailout of the Big Three automakers. Congressmen should take | Read More »
Michelle Malkin offers sound advice for Republicans on Capitol Hill: The first step toward GOP redemption is to stop the automakers’ bailout and roll back the creeping conversion of the Crap Sandwich 2.0 into an all-purpose bailout bonanza for every last American industry and corporate special interest in financial peril. For those of you who don’t read Malkin regularly, Crap Sandwich 2.0 is her description | Read More »
For more than 219 years, the U.S. Senate has earned a reputation as the “world’s greatest deliberative body.” But in the year-and-a-half since Democrat Harry Reid took over as majority leader, the body has taken on a new role — one that substitutes debate and deliberation for politics and expediency. The latest threat comes in the form of what conservatives have dubbed “Reid’s Monkey Pork | Read More »
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