The House floor erupted in one of the loudest cheers the chamber has heard in years when Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), an hour before midnight, cast the 218th and deciding vote on landmark health care reform. There were still six minutes and fifty-two seconds on the clock and the chair made a move to gavel the vote closed. Democrats waived their opposition, keeping the vote open. Almost every eye...
Rep. Virginia Foxx makes me Carolina proud ! Everywhere I go in my district, people tell me they are frightened. … I share that fear, and I believe they should be fearful. And I believe the greatest fear that we all should have to our freedom comes from this room — this very room — and what may happen later this week in terms of a tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill....
Patrick McHenry may think he’s clever by playing Wii with Patrick Gavin , but Reps Kucinich and LaTourette just one-upped him. Congressmen Dennis Kucinich and Steve LaTourette appeared on the "Jay Leno Show" last night in a D.L. Hughley segment about finding common ground. In order to move forward with health care reform, Hughley believes we [...] Related posts: Funny Or Die High-Fiving...
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R., N.C.) is the head of the House Conservatives Fund (HCF), a non-connected federal PAC supported by more than 100 fiscally and socially conservative members of Congress. Here’s how the group describes its mission: Our mission is two-fold: 1. To regain the Republican majority in Congress. 2. To assure that principled conservatives are elected (and re-elected). When evaluating...
-By Warner Todd Huston In an amusing case of the pot calling the kettle, Anna Burger, the Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), told Representative Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) that the SEIU had dumped ACORN during a Sept. 30 hearing conducted by the House Financial Services Committee. Apparently Mrs. Burger felt that ACORN [...]
Indiana bigot Mike Pence blew the whistle on this one. A couple weeks ago we looked at how the Republican obsession with openly gay people and the Republican obsession with "czars" was degenerating into a jihad against Kevin Jennings, the Assistant Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. Bigot extraordinaire Steve King of Iowa wrote a...
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) today honored three Members of Congress from North Carolina as Taxpayer Heroes in its 2008 Congressional Ratings; Virginia Foxx with 98 percent, Patrick McHenry with 89 percent, and Sue Myrick with 80 percent. The average for the entire House was 35 percent, which makes their achievements that much more impressive....
Patrick Gavin could be a genius. He gets paid by POLITICO to play Members of Congress in Connect Four and Wii. The Patricks battle it out in the Click’s latest video: Game Changer (Wii edition). Share on Facebook Related posts:Patrick Gavin to PoliticoPatrick Gavin Seems A Little Stressed OutFamously Facebooked: Rep. Patrick McHenry Edition Related posts: Patrick Gavin to Politico Patrick Gavin...
In questioning SEIU political director Anna Burger at a meeting of the House Financial Services Committee yesterday, U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-NC, got the surprising admission that SEIU has cut all ties with the discredited community organizing group ACORN. Take that with a grain of salt, but still, as the BigGovernment.com blog said: Of course, [...]
Republicans are laying into Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson like he personally took a dump on Rush Limbaugh's studio chair or something. They're trying to Van Jones the guy out of Congress for his comments on the GOP health care plan (or complete lack of it). Grayson, for his part, refuses to back down , as HuffPo's Howie Klein reports. GOP morning shill, Joe Scarborough, had reactionary sidekicks Pat...
I know the difference between angry and mad. And when it comes to outspoken Orlando freshman Alan Grayson, Republicans are both . He's been the bane of their-- and their big donors'-- existence on the House Financial Services Committee, where he's been working effectively to put a crimp in a status quo that has presided over a concentration of wealth in this country that leaves the top 1% with more...
It's a very simple plan. Here it is. The Republican health care plan for America: Don't get sick. That's right, don't get sick. If you have insurance, don't get sick. If you don't have insurance, don't get sick. If you're sick, don't get sick. ...but it's not quite a foolproof plan so the backup plan in case you do get sick If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: die quickly....
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), one of the very, very few true liberals (or progressives, if you prefer that term) in Congress, pissed off a whole slew of Republicans last night when he declared on the floor of the House that "Republicans want you to die." Here's the video: As usual, Republicans in Congress can't handle the truth. The bottom line is that Republicans have no plan for health care...
The National Republican Senatorial Committee, which is targeting the open U.S. Senate seat in Illinois for a win next year, is calling on Democratic candidate Alexi Giannoulias to "demand the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) sever all financial ties with ACORN" before accepting the union's endorsement. This shouldn't come as a surprise for anyone that's watched the right sharpen...
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