Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is so terrified of a vote on the President’s American Jobs Act that he used the “Nuclear Option” to block a Senate vote tonight. The Senate was poised to vote on the President’s jobs plan, yet Reid used a tactic to obliterate the legislation without a vote. This is a dangerous game that Senate Democrats play, because Republicans could | Read More »
A vote is scheduled today on the nomination of Richard Cordray to be the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in the Senate Banking Committee. This nomination battle is a proxy fight over Dodd-Frank, also known as the “Wall Street Reform Bill,” and regulatory excess. Expect Republicans to fight the Cordray confirmation as a means to slow a regulatory behemoth that imposes a | Read More »
The House and Senate have another Continuing Resolution (CR) on the agenda that would fund the federal government into next month. The House will consider a measure aimed at over regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Senate will debate a bill addressing China’s currency and trade issues. The Super Secret Committee marches on behind closed doors to cut a deal on $1.2 trillion | Read More »
There is only one issue this week in Washington - a Continuing Resolution (CR). Both the House and Senate were scheduled to be out of session this week, so there are no major hearings or markups scheduled in committees. Friday is the deadline to pass a CR, therefore expect the House and Senate to convene off and on this week to cut a deal to keep | Read More »
The President will be making a speech today from the Rose Garden (echoes of Carter?) mapping out proposed savings of $3 trillion over the next 10 years. According to the AP, the President’s new plan contains an old idea — massive tax increases: $1.5 trillion in new revenue, which would include about $800 billion realized over 10 years from repealing the Bush-era tax rates for couples | Read More »
Congress is expected to receive the President’s Stimulus 2.0 this today. According to National Journal the President will submit legislation to Congress tonight. President Obama will send a $447 billion jobs bill to Congress on Monday night, according to an administration official. He will announce the move in a Rose Garden ceremony surrounded by teachers, firefighters, police officers, construction workers, small business owners, and veterans, | Read More »
Marcus “Marc” Flagg is a hero to me. I have met a few extraordinary people in my life during my time on Capitol Hill, but Marc stands out. He was a victim on September 11, 2001, yet he was not defeated by the terrorists who attacked the United States. He worked through the political system to solve one of the problems that caused 9/11. You see, Marc lost | Read More »
Last year, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) sent the President a letter raising concerns about 191 pending regulations that costs American business billions of dollars a year. The President ignored the letter, so Speaker Boehner sent him another one. The potential cost of these Obama regulations will be devastating to an already sputtering economy and constitute a massive hidden tax on all Americans. The only way for Senators to stop regulations | Read More »
Both the House and the Senate return from the August recess today with much to do, including the Fiscal Year 2012 appropriations bills, consideration of patent reform and a bill to commemorate 9/11. The highlight of this week in Washington will be President Obama’s Thursday address (campaign speech?) to Congress. The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction will meet for the first time on Thursday morning. Conservatives | Read More »
From 4-7pm eastern time today, I will be cohosting The Big Show on 630AM WMAL in Washington, DC with Derek Hunter and Kerry Picket of the Washington Times. You can listen at http://www.wmal.com/. This is radio for Red State America. Scheduled guests include Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) to discuss the debt limit increase and national security at 4pm. Other guests include Jon David of Big Hollywood and Cully Stimson of | Read More »
What is President Barack Obama’s “debt failsafe” trigger? It is a means for liberals in Washington to increase taxes on you in the name of deficit reduction and avoids specific consent of the governed for these tax increases. If a mechanism to automatically increase taxes is raised by the “Gang of Six,” a bipartisan group working to reduce the deficit, or the President’s bipartisan bicameral negotiating team on reducing | Read More »
In the budget battle that threatens to shut down government, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has embraced the filibuster as a tool to preserve government funding for Planned Parenthood. This is the same Senator Schumer who, as recently as January, had denounced the filibuster as a tool to “grind the Senate to a halt.”
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) questioned Energy Department bureaucrat Kathleen Hogan before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee about consumer choice yesterday. See video below to watch Sen. Paul flush some bad energy regulatory ideas.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) may cause a government shutdown. Senator Reid is employing a procedural strategy to deal with the House-passed long-term Continuing Resolution (CR), H.R. 1, that may make it more likely that the federal government will shut down when the government runs out of money on March 18. Remember this when we get closer to March 18 and both parties blame | Read More »
Only in Washington can politicians get away with complaining about a government shutdown, while going on vacation for a whole week. Senate Democrats took to the air on Sunday to warn the American people about a government shutdown on March 4th. They argued that the Senate may not agree to the House passed Continuing Resolution (CR), because the bill’s $61 billion in cuts to spending for the remainder of | Read More »
Later this afternoon, the House will vote on Representative Denny Rehberg’s (R-MT) amendment to the Continuing Resolution (CR) to defund elements of ObamaCare. Representative Steve King (R-IA) took a run at attaching legislation to fully defund ObamaCare to the CR earlier this week, but was beaten back by the rules of the House. King lost a vote to waive the House rule forbidding legislation on an | Read More »
Good for Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH). He is one member of Congress that gets it. Clearly the Tea Party movement has an ally in Congressman Jordan and the Republican Study Committee (RSC). Jordan, the Chairman of the RSC, is pushing for more cuts to the federal budget. They have an amendment to the Continuing Resolution (CR) in the House to cut billions more in spending. The RSC | Read More »
Tina Korbe of The Heritage Foundation, my employer, interviewed House Freshman on spending cuts. Korbe interviewed Representatives Mike Kelly (R-PA), Renee Ellmers (R-NC), Allen West (R-FL), Chip Cravaack (R-MN), Steve Southerland (R-FL) and James Lankford (R-OK). West declares in the video that ”it takes 5 miles to turn an aircraft carrier and if we don’t start now, we will never get this ship, the U.S.S. America, righted | Read More »
President Obama’s budget is debt to me. The President’s budget does not implement promised cuts to spending, taxes nor the federal debt. The budget goes in a different direction increasing spending, increasing taxes and triples our national debt by end of this decade. I am not the only one who dislikes the President’s budgetary ideas. The President’s budget has been received on Capitol Hill like a Sputnik | Read More »
The President’s budget is out today. Do not believe the hype that the President is cutting spending and balancing the budget. A cursory review of the budget tables in his proposal indicates that the free spending Obama Administration is going to increase spending and taxes, yet claim that they are freezing spending and cutting the deficit. The President even has the Wall Street Journal parroting the | Read More »
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