House Democrats have rejected the Senate’s negotiated tax compromise. In a rowdy meeting in which one Democratic Congressman said loudly “F— the President,” the House Democrats turned Nancy Reagan and just said no. Barney Frank still thinks it would pass, most likely with House Republicans. But the deal must now die. It must now be opposed by Republicans. Released now in print, the legislation is | Read More »
Chuck Schumer wants the White House’s Office of Management and Budget to tell states they have no choice in the use of porkulus funds. Below the fold is the entire letter. It’s is amazing in its reach. In effect, states will have zero discretion in how they spend the money and which parts they take. This stems from Gov. Bobby Jindal and others saying they | Read More »
As President Obama hosts a summit Monday on “fiscal responsibility,” Democratic leaders in Congress this week are preparing to ram through the House a massive spending bill that includes thousands of unscrutinized pork-barrel earmarks and the largest increase in discretionary spending since Jimmy Carter – a bill written in secret, which to date, no one in America other than the Democratic congressional leadership has read. | Read More »
Excellent work guys. House Republicans are setting up “a stimulus-watch program” that will allow watchdog groups and private citizens to report findings as contractors and agencies start spending billions of dollars on roads, schools, renewable energy projects and other initiatives, said House GOP Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia. Here’s the thing: the stimulus will fail. Even the Congressional Budget Office says the stimulus, as passed, | Read More »
These tidbits come from John Boehner’s office. — Erick The Democrats’ trillion dollar spending bill provides $1.10 per day in tax relief to workers, while saddling every American family with $9,400.00 in added debt. Following are some very tentative quick facts on the trillion-dollar “stimulus” spending deal slated to be rushed through the House and Senate today or tomorrow by Congressional Democrats, as compiled by | Read More »
Folks, we’ve added CapWiz to RedState effective immediately. GO HERE. You’ll be able to take direct action on RedState Alerts. The site will be jointly used by RedState and Human Events. Go plug in your zipcode and it’ll give you the local office phone number for your member of Congress since the switch board is full in Washington.
Well this is a new one on me. According to Congressional Quarterly this morning, House Republicans led by Jack Kingston (R-GA), took to the House floor to demand to see Porkulus. Despite a unanimous vote of the House of Representatives to not vote on the bill until people had 48 hours to see it, the Democrats sought to back track and vote on Porkulus sight | Read More »
Fox News is reporting Senator Mitch McConnell late this afternoon insisted that Republican senators let porkulus go to a vote on the Senate floor without a fight. McConnell apparently reasoned that obstructing the vote would make the GOP look bad and it would be better for the plan to pass and fail than be stopped cold by the GOP. Of course, there would be no | Read More »
Courtesy of Senator Tom Coburn. Exactly how are these related to stimulating the economy and creating new jobs? $2 billion earmark for FutureGen near zero emissions powerplant in Mattoon, IL $39 billion slush fund for “state fiscal stabilization” bailout $5.5 billion for making federal buildings “green” (including $448 million for DHS HQ) $200 million for workplace safety in USDA facilities $275 million for flood prevention | Read More »
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