House Republicans ‘Running Into Multiple Obstacles’
Leader McCarthy and House Republicans, not too long ago, announced that they’d postpone voting on the CR until further notice. Why? From Roll Call: House Republican leaders are running into multiple obstacles in their efforts to speed a stopgap measure through the… Continue
Groups Responsible for Republican Government Shutdown of 2013 Call on McCarthy to Terminate the Ex-Im Bank
Club for Growth and Heritage Action, this morning, sent a letter to House Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy urging him to terminate the Export-Import Bank endangering hundreds of thousands of American jobs: On behalf of our respective organizations, we hope you will… Continue
The Speaker’s Rhetoric Can Only Go So Far
How did Speaker Boehner’s ridiculous claim about enacting immigration reform next year play in the media? Not good at all. See for yourself: From The Wire: Immigration reform in 2015? Speaker John Boehner says it could happen. Of course, Boehner also said… Continue
Thanks to Affordable Care Act, Good News for 2015 Premiums
Great news for the Affordable Care Act: a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that premiums in the Marketplaces for the plan on which tax credits are based – the second-lowest cost silver plan in each market – will drop… Continue
Believe It: Speaker Boehner Says Something Unbelievable About Immigration Reform
Speaker Boehner had this to say about immigration reform yesterday during an interview with the Hugh Hewitt radio show: …you know, there’s a possibility that Congress could take this issue up next year. But Speaker Boehner has a long history of breaking… Continue
House GOP: Paying Lawyers $500-an-hour in Taxpayer Dollars to Sue the President
A month after Republicans in the House Rules Committee rejected 11 amendments from Democrats that would’ve increased transparency and accountability in funding the lawsuit, its long-awaited, no-bid contract negotiated in secret has been revealed. The GOP lawsuit to sue President Obama will… Continue
The Headlines Say It All: GOP Border and DACA Bills ‘A Slap to Immigrants’
Speaker Boehner and House Republicans, not too long ago, passed two cruel bills that strip down protections afforded to children fleeing violence and end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. What’s been the media reaction since then? It hasn’t been… Continue
The House Republican Party Then & Now
What Mr. Boehner and the House Republican Conference told us then: “One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents. It is time to provide an opportunity for legal… Continue
Long live the GOP Rhetoric
Before calling for the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, see what Mr. Boehner and some House Republicans had to say about our nation’s DREAMers: “These children were brought here of no accord of their own… –Rep. John… Continue
‘Off the menu’..’invasion’…’son of DACA’
After suffering an unsurprising embarrassment yesterday, Boehner’s updated and radicalized border bill has won the attention of Members from his extreme, far-right Conference. See what some anti-immigrant Members had to say: “The changes brought into this are ones I’ve developed and advocated… Continue
