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Not Enough Yet, but House Bound to Cut More Spending

August 4th, 2011

By Dan Miller If the House behaves in the best interests of its majority, Uncle Sugar will have to diet lest they precipitate a new credit limit “crisis”. Both houses of the Congress have now approved the new debt limit bill, the text of which is available here. President Obama has signed it. It is [...]

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Tags: Constitution, credit downgrade, debt limit, House, legislation, Senate
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How the New Congress Can Roll Back Obama’s Agenda

November 6th, 2010

By Dan Miller Soon to be former Speaker Baghdad Bob’s Pelosi’s assessment on November 2 that the Democrats would hold the House of Representatives to the contrary notwithstanding, it will no longer be under “liberal” Democratic Party control come January. Perhaps she will not like the results when she sees them. The conservatives seem to [...]

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Tags: appropriations, Congress, election, House, revenue, Senate, spending, veto
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Incompetent 111th Congress

October 8th, 2010

By Tom Carter The 111th Congress will, thankfully, pass into history on January 3, 2011. It’s been one of the most partisan, rancorous, and generally incompetent in our recent history. What it supposedly accomplished is highly unpopular with many people, and it failed to do some of the most important tasks of any Congress. Aside [...]

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Tags: budget, Congress, failure, House, incompetent, Senate, spending, taxes
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What If the Republicans Win Control of Congress?

September 2nd, 2010

By Tom Carter As we approach the elections on November 2, more and more serious experts are predicting that the Republicans will win a majority in the House and possibly even in the Senate. One prediction published today comes from Larry Sabato, who is a professor at the University of Virginia and director of the [...]

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Tags: Democrat, election, House, prediction, Republican, Sabato, Senate
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Report from Capitol Hill

March 23rd, 2010

By Brianna Aubin For those of you who may not be interested in reading further, here is the precis. I spent March 20th in Washington D.C., along with somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 people in D.C. that day for the protest, all of whom came to D.C. with less than 48 hours notice. That estimate [...]

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Tags: Congress, health care, House, politicians, protesters, Tea Party, Washington
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Redundant Idiocy

March 22nd, 2010

by Jane Thomas My husband prefers to go fishing rather than listen to my Sunday morning TV programs dealing with political activities. His special pet peeve is Washington Journal when general public calls are taken, calls which he deems range from incredibly ignorant to purposefully stupid statements. Yesterday, I spent the entire day watching the [...]

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Tags: democracy, Democrat, health care, House, legislation, republic, Republican
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Health Care Fatigue

March 21st, 2010

By Tom Carter I’m tired of the health care debate. It’s been going on for a year, and it’s become so complex and so partisan that even many of the politicians who will vote for health care reform today don’t understand it well. We’ll know in a few hours whether we have a new law [...]

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Tags: Congress, constitutional, health care, House, legislation, Senate
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What’s in the Bill

March 19th, 2010

By Tom Carter The Washington Post today published a handy guide to what’s in the Senate health care bill and changes that are in the House reconciliation bill. It’s highly summarized and covers only eight major topics. It’s useful, however, given that the bill posted on the internet is unintelligible. On abortion, the Senate language [...]

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Tags: abortion, health care, House, Obama, reconciliation, Senate
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Health Care and Abortion

March 7th, 2010

By Tom Carter Taxpayer funding for abortions is a touchy issue in the House in regard to health care legislation. The only way the House barely managed to pass their version of the legislation in the first place was by the Democrats permitting Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI) to add an amendment that strictly prohibits direct or [...]

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Tags: abortion, health care reform, House, Pelosi, Senate, Stupak
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Health Care Reform Details

November 22nd, 2009

By Tom Carter The Washington Post has published a good interactive graph that compares the costs and features of the House and Senate health care reform bills (click the image). You’ll find a lot of things that bring up questions. At the most comprehensive level, reconciling the differences between these bills in a House-Senate conference [...]

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Tags: health care reform, House, reconciliation, Senate
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