Thursday clicks: House to vote on tax compromise, science = Democrat, and the...
The White House assessment on Afghanistan says the gains there are fragile, but the troop withdrawal start date is on track (not that there won’t be push-back.) House Democrats will take two votes...
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Obama tax compromise passes the House, 277-148
In the end, it wasn’t even close. Audible boos could be heard from the Democratic side of the House as the vote total was announced. Prior to the vote, House leaders allowed a floor vote on an...
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111th Congress ends with a Christmas miracle
9/11 first responders will finally be made whole. Thank you, 111th Congress. The 111th Congress ended Wednesday with a flurry of legislation and bill signings, capping what historians are already...
View Article(Video) ICYMI: CNN’s Ed Henry grills Darrell Issa
On his plans for Obama witch hunts oversight as chairman of House’s government reform committee, starting with whether he will pursue an investigation of the so-called “corrupt job offer” to Joe Sestak...
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America held hostage … by incompetents
Congressman Pete Sessions, TX and Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick accept the oath of office surrounded by 500 Fitzpatrick supporters in the Capitol Vistors Center. Swearing in ceremony of Congressman Mike...
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Isn’t this a lovely day to pretend to repeal healthcare reform?
So … House Republicans will hold have held their big “repeal the job-killingcrushing bruising healthcare law” vote today. (Spoiler alert: it passed!) And how HOW doin? For starters, when you’ve got to...
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White House threatens veto over Gitmo, endless ‘war on terror’ provisions in...
The president issues a veto threat over a House bill that would effectively make the war on terror permanent. If a House bill extending the “global war on terror” beyond the post-9/11 mandate, and...
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John Boehner has had enough of this sh–! (and the GOP caves on the payroll...
House majority whip Eric Cantor and House speaker John Boehner. John Boehner gives up the ghost. According to TPM, he finally “laid down the law” to his caucus, telling them they were going to have to...
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This is not how you stage a hearing on contraception
… If you ever want to win the votes of women, or modern men, for that matter. So who was the genius who decided it was a good idea to hold a hearing at which a bunch of crusty old men got to opine...
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John Boehner, the GOP insurgents and the perils of striking the king
A much younger John Boehner stands beside then House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whom Boehner would later turn on in a failed attempted coup. There is a saying in military lore, that if you’re going to...
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This week’s Herald column: Sorry, Boehner, it’s not over
This week’s column details the reasons why, in my opinion, the GOP’s civil war is just beginning. A clip: …there are big differences between the core left and the core right. One is that the left...
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