• Tanner, like the other the candidates for the Republican nomination, ran on a right-wing, pro-Donald Trump message. (wikipedia.org)
  • His solution to this political problem is to speak endlessly about Donald Trump and shout the word MAGA at every opportunity. (blackagendareport.com)
  • The people calling Trump a traitor and wanting to jail him are the same people who would never have voted for him or other republicans in the first place. (blackagendareport.com)
  • House Republicans - most of whom are still aligned with Trump - argued that the legislation shouldn't be a priority and that it is a political vehicle for Democrats ahead of November's midterm elections. (kmvt.com)
  • It also sets out that each state can only send one certified set of electors after Trump's allies had unsuccessfully tried to put together alternate slates of illegitimate pro-Trump electors in swing states where Biden won. (kmvt.com)
  • The combination of a Trump administration and Republican control of Congress has greatly increased the prospects for business tax reform. (harvard.edu)
  • Much of what President Trump outlined Tuesday night - paid family leave, overhauling the criminal justice system's sentencing laws and reducing the cost of prescription drugs - are proposals loaded with opposition from the conservative wing of the party and are unlikely to find GOP champions on Capitol Hill. (wgbh.org)
  • The Republican legislative package aims to revive a number of policies either enacted or proposed under then-President Donald Trump that restricted asylum rules. (azcapitoltimes.com)
  • AP) - House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy on Friday confronted President Joe Biden and the Democratic majority in Congress with a conservative midterm election agenda filled with Trump-like promises, working not only to win over voters but to hold together the uneasy coalition of his own party that has struggled to govern. (wcia.com)
  • Five years ago, the sociologist Arlie Hochschild set out to better understand what she called the "deep story" of the mostly white, mostly downwardly mobile Americans who made up the fervent constituency of the Tea Party, and now of Donald Trump. (nationalmemo.com)
  • Since then, she has sought to cultivate an image as a lawmaker not afraid to buck her own party, even drawing the ire of former President Trump when she said the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack meant that Trump's "entire legacy was wiped out. (fox16.com)
  • Against this backdrop, speakers warned against both the continuation of Trump and the perils of a Democratic Party that relies on corporate money and stifles fundamental change. (commondreams.org)
  • 1- Plenty of Republicans dismiss Trump as a temporary disease-aberration. (blogspot.com)
  • During the 2016 presidential election, Singer was a vocal opponent of then-candidate Trump and, a year earlier, was the financier of a conservative website that hired Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on the business executive-turned-Republican nominee for president. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • I can't wait to see you arguing that Trump shares no responsibility for the bills that he signs because congress passed them. (thestranger.com)
  • Congressional Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump have vowed to repeal the ACA and replace it with a more free-market approach to extending health insurance coverage to more Americans, perhaps preserving some ACA reforms such as banning exclusions based on pre-existing conditions. (medscape.com)
  • Led by outspoken members of the House Freedom Caucus, 11 Republicans broke with their party on an otherwise routine procedural vote that threw the House schedule into disarray for a full week. (wtop.com)
  • The lawmaker, who is a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, calls Perlmutter a friend. (cpr.org)
  • My opposition to the clean CR just announced by the Speaker to the @HouseGOP cannot be overstated,' Representative Chip Roy, a member of the hardline House Freedom Caucus, said on the social media platform X. (yahoo.com)
  • Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a conservative member of the Freedom Caucus who has pushed aggressive border measures, said the legislation "reflects in a package form basically where we've all wanted to head, which is to actually enforce the law. (azcapitoltimes.com)
  • Biden brags about allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies but that won't happen until 2026 and will only be allowed for ten drugs that are to be named later. (blackagendareport.com)
  • The MAGA distraction exposes the democrats' weakness, namely living off their decades old reputation as the party of working people when they have had little or nothing to say for themselves in that regard in the Biden, Obama, or Clinton administrations. (blackagendareport.com)
  • The democrats may get lucky and keep control of congress after the midterm elections but it won't be because Biden manages to say MAGA in every sentence. (blackagendareport.com)
  • Biden diverges from traditional political discourse out of desperation so acute that he repeats Hillary's failed course of action. (blackagendareport.com)
  • House Republican hardliners have been pushing to cut fiscal 2024 spending below the $US1.59 ($A2.5) trillion level Biden and Johnson's predecessor agreed in the May deal that averted default. (yahoo.com)
  • WASHINGTON - Pressure mounting, President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress strained Tuesday to trim back his potentially historic $3.5 trillion government overhaul to win support from two key holdout senators ahead of make-or-break deadlines for votes. (spokesman.com)
  • With Republicans solidly opposed and no votes to spare, Biden canceled a Wednesday trip to Chicago that was to focus on COVID-19 vaccinations so he could continue working on a deal, according to a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the planning. (spokesman.com)
  • The stakes are as high as ever as Biden and his party try to accomplish a giant legislative lift, promising a vast rewrite of the nation's tax priorities and spending goals with an oh-so-slim majority in Congress. (spokesman.com)
  • Taken together, it's all putting the entire Biden agenda perilously closer to collapse, with consequences certain to shape his presidency and the lawmakers' political futures. (spokesman.com)
  • House Republicans for months have railed against the Biden administration's handling of the U.S. border with Mexico, holding hearings, visiting border communities and promising to advance legislation to clamp down on illegal immigration and drug trafficking. (azcapitoltimes.com)
  • The GOP leader is traveling to Pennsylvania on Friday, Sept. 23, a once Democratic stronghold, to challenge President Joe Biden and the party in power. (wcia.com)
  • If Republicans win control of the Congress abortion will be banned," Biden said. (wcia.com)
  • As voters face a dismal 'lesser of two evils' election in which a Biden/Harris ticket represents the only alternative to four more years of Trumpian fascism and racism, the Movement for a People's Party aims to prevent such dreary and sparse choices in the future. (commondreams.org)
  • Joining President Biden at the funeral service were members of Congress, Cabinet officials, three Republican former vice presidents and Bill Clinton, who beat Dole to win reelection as president in 1996. (scrippsnews.com)
  • While calling him a 'giant of our time and of all time,' President Biden said Dole was worried at the end of his life about American democracy being threatened by bitter political battles and had noted that infighting from both parties 'grows more unacceptable day by day. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Following a five-year federal investigation, a grand jury has indicted President Joe Biden 's son Hunter Biden on three charges connected to a gun purchase in 2018, a time period during which the president's son has admitted to using drugs. (yahoo.com)
  • That's if the case survives the political maelstrom targeting the Biden family, with congressional Republicans eager to prosecute the president's son and impeach his father in parallel probes separate from a US Department of Justice special counsel investigation facing GOP pressure. (yahoo.com)
  • Republican officials and campaigns are eager to draw a false equivalence and dominate airtime with investigations surrounding the younger Biden instead. (yahoo.com)
  • Ironically, a Supreme Court decision celebrated by Republicans last year may have set a precedent that could protect Hunter Biden from prosecution. (yahoo.com)
  • Hunter Biden is charged with illegally owning a gun as a drug user, and with allegedly lying on a form when he bought the firearm. (yahoo.com)
  • Last year, President Biden and his Democratic allies in Congress acquiesced to one of Republicans' highest-profile priorities: An elimination of the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate that was responsible for kicking out of the armed forces more than 8,000 troops who refused to get the shot. (washington-mail.com)
  • Venturing back into the nation's culture wars, the Republican-controlled House is taking up legislation that GOP lawmakers say would protect gas stoves from overzealous government regulators. (wtop.com)
  • The remark prompted online images of the government dragging four-burner cooktops from homes, as social media users and GOP lawmakers pledged to defend the popular appliances. (wtop.com)
  • But as the House nears a second week stuck on pause, and Republicans struggle to unite around a candidate, many lawmakers are growing antsy. (wlns.com)
  • During a closed-door Republican meeting Thursday night where Majority Leader Steve Scalise withdrew his nomination for speaker, McHenry joked with lawmakers that he would lock them in a room and withhold food and water until they united behind a leader, according to Rep. Marc Molinaro, who was in the room. (wlns.com)
  • One group of centrist GOP lawmakers, led by Ohio Republican Rep. David Joyce, is preparing a resolution that would explicitly grant McHenry some power to bring legislation to the floor, endowing his role with new and defined authority. (wlns.com)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has passed legislation to overhaul the rules for certifying the results of a presidential election as lawmakers accelerate their response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and Donald Trump's failed attempt to remain in power. (kmvt.com)
  • The legislation would increase the threshold for individual lawmakers' objections to any state's electoral votes, requiring a third of the House and a third of the Senate to object to trigger votes on the results in both chambers. (kmvt.com)
  • A Republican stopgap spending measure unveiled by United States House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson to avert a government shutdown has quickly run into opposition from lawmakers from both parties in Congress. (yahoo.com)
  • A tragic train wreck almost put an early end to this year's GOP policy retreat as lawmakers grappled with whether or not to carry on after an Amtrak train carrying them to the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. collided with a garbage truck and resulted in at least one fatality. (wgbh.org)
  • President Trump's State of the Union address provided a familiar list of proposals, but lawmakers haven't rallied around an agenda in the same way Republicans did in 2017 on health care and taxes. (wgbh.org)
  • He also criticized other GOP lawmakers for proposals to require reauthorization votes for Social Security and Medicare and opposition to gun control laws and efforts to lower prescription drug costs. (wcia.com)
  • Asking lawmakers to do this gets harder as a primary approaches and members feel pressure to please their own party's voters. (kosu.org)
  • While the Democrats control 60 seats in the Senate, enough to quash Republican efforts to block action on the bill, they can't rely on all those votes because of the illnesses of two lawmakers, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, and Robert Byrd of West Virginia. (coldplaying.com)
  • The problem, according to members and advocates, is not that the bills wouldn't have passed but that they would have split Republican lawmakers - and GOP leaders were wary of a divisive intra-party fight just weeks before November's election. (blogspot.com)
  • The NDAA, considered one of the few annual must-pass measures lawmakers consider, has become a policy battlefield for both parties, with measures that stand little chance of passing partisan muster on their own folded into a giant spending and policy package that even presidents are reluctant to veto. (washington-mail.com)
  • In 2020, Tanner officially announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress in Georgia's 9th congressional district, for the seat vacated by Republican U.S. Representative Doug Collins, who is running for U.S. Senate. (wikipedia.org)
  • The congressional district is a Republican safe seat. (wikipedia.org)
  • Jeff Amy, Parties to compete in all 14 Georgia congressional districts, Associated Press (March 8, 2020). (wikipedia.org)
  • Some Republicans are urging McHenry to interpret his powers more broadly, if that's what it takes to get the House working again, even if it means setting a new precedent that could ripple down through congressional history. (wlns.com)
  • Neither she nor other members of "the Squad" or the Congressional Black Caucus have anything to fear when they go along to get along. (blackagendareport.com)
  • Renee Shaw discusses issues in Kentucky's 1st Congressional District with Rep. James Comer, Republican nominee. (ket.org)
  • Then, a discussion of issues in Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District with Morgan McGarvey, Democratic nominee and Stuart Ray, Republican nominee. (ket.org)
  • The conventional wisdom is that a chamber's majority party gears the election-year legislative agenda to the election," says longtime congressional scholar Steven S. Smith, a professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis. (kosu.org)
  • Mace, who touts her bio as a former Waffle House waitress and first female graduate from The Citadel, first entered Congress after narrowly beating Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-S.C.) in the Lowcountry House seat of South Carolina's 1st Congressional District. (fox16.com)
  • In a separate interview, former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle said Obama is losing patience with negotiations between three Democrats and three Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee, the only congressional panel seeking a bipartisan consensus on a plan to remake the nation's health- care system. (coldplaying.com)
  • Now, handed some real leverage in the ongoing 2024 spending negotiations on Capitol Hill, it's time for congressional Republicans to decide which of those policies to aggressively target and which ones they can grit their teeth and live with. (washington-mail.com)
  • The scene on Capitol Hill this past week has been almost as absurdly macabre as the movie "Weekend at Bernie's," with Tom DeLay and Bill Frist propping up between them this poor woman in a vegetative state to indulge their own political agendas. (smmirror.com)
  • The day turned violent last year after hundreds of Trump's supporters interrupted the proceedings, broke into the building and threatened the lives of then-Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress. (kmvt.com)
  • In a Wednesday night speech, Vice President Mike Pence lauded Republicans for 2017, which he called "the most accomplished year for the conservative agenda in 30 years. (wgbh.org)
  • Only… we did see one glimmer of might-have-been, during the Vice Presidential debate, when Mike Pence spoke of criminal justice reform … which means reducing penalties that have, for generations, been slammed on victimless crimes like simple drug possession and especially focused on minorities. (blogspot.com)
  • On Saturday, June 10, 2023, Republican delegates in North Carolina voted at their annual convention to censure Tillis for supporting policies that they said violate key tenets of the GOP platform. (mystateline.com)
  • US Speaker Mike Johnson's two-step funding plan has divided Republicans. (yahoo.com)
  • Congress is barreling toward a government shutdown this week as Friday's funding deadline inches closer, with House Republicans at odds over Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) pitch to keep the lights on in Washington. (ksnt.com)
  • This two-step continuing resolution is a necessary bill to place House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative victories,' Johnson said in a statement after announcing the plan. (yahoo.com)
  • Republicans on Wednesday jump-started work on an immigration and border enforcement package that would remake immigration law to make it more difficult to apply for asylum and easier for the federal government to stop migrants from entering the U.S. It combines proposals from several conservative hardliners into a single bill. (azcapitoltimes.com)
  • As Sen. Tillis has gained influence in Congress for his willingness to work across the aisle, his record of supporting some key policies has raised concerns among some state Republicans that the senator has strayed from conservative values. (mystateline.com)
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  • Behind the scenes, some defense officials maintain that conservative Republicans in Congress are simply trying to score political points by rallying their base behind criticism of a "woke" military, when in reality there is no such thing. (washington-mail.com)
  • Republicans easily abandon their cherished principles of individual privacy and states rights when their personal ambitions come into play. (smmirror.com)
  • He said while Obama hasn't made a firm decision to abandon a bipartisan approach, "it's important to put policy ahead of process. (coldplaying.com)
  • Gen. Spoehr said it would be a mistake for Republicans to abandon their fight against woke military policies right now in the hopes that their party will recapture the Senate and White House in the 2024 elections. (washington-mail.com)
  • But since his abrupt appointment as speaker pro tempore last week following the unprecedented ouster of Kevin McCarthy from the top spot, the North Carolina Republican has wielded the gavel with extreme care, making no attempts to test the limits of his unusual role. (wlns.com)
  • The effort to fund the government marks a big test for Johnson, who assumed the Speakership less than one month ago, after eight Republicans joined with Democrats to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the top job in part because of his handling of the government funding process. (ksnt.com)
  • Perlmutter's bipartisan reputation started during his time in the statehouse, and it solidified in Congress. (cpr.org)
  • The bill, which is similar to bipartisan legislation moving through the Senate , would overhaul an arcane 1800s-era statute known as the Electoral Count Act that governs, along with the U.S. Constitution, how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners. (kmvt.com)
  • A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation this summer and a Senate committee is expected to vote on it next week. (kmvt.com)
  • And despite the mostly party-line vote in the House, supporters are encouraged by the bipartisan effort in the Senate. (business-standard.com)
  • Importantly, the poll was conducted in the midst of Big Tech's ad blitz, and yet Senate battleground voters continue to support the passage of these pieces of legislation by large bipartisan majorities. (protocol.com)
  • This isn't Build Back Better - it's a bipartisan concept that brings Republicans and Democrats together. (protocol.com)
  • On the heels of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, the Movement for a People's Party (MPP) speakers blasted this 'duopoly' for its long bipartisan allegiance to corporate power, oligarchy, and militarism. (commondreams.org)
  • Democratic Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey called the bills a political stunt. (wtop.com)
  • While Democrats debate whether the party has moved too far to the left or not far enough, Democratic Socialists of America - the nation's largest socialist organization - scored its biggest victories in this year's election cycle. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • He is allowed to spew subpar propaganda because he has no opposition within the democratic party. (blackagendareport.com)
  • Unfortunately most democratic voters have been indoctrinated into thinking that voicing any concerns with their party leadership will lead to republican victory. (blackagendareport.com)
  • Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is likely in September to end Democratic efforts to work with Republicans on health-care legislation and press for a party-line vote if the stalemate on the issue in the U.S. Senate persists, a person close to the White House said. (coldplaying.com)
  • The president and his advisers have started devising a strategy to pass a measure by relying only on the Democratic majority in each house of Congress, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity. (coldplaying.com)
  • Speaker after speaker skewered the Democratic Party and its nominee for decades of adherence to corporate and Wall Street interests, military spending increases and war, and its refusal to support Medicare for All, even amid a deadly pandemic. (commondreams.org)
  • Republican megadonor and hedge fund executive Paul Singer went into attack mode at a dinner honoring Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week, targeting what he described as a rising threat of socialism within the Democratic Party. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • Way back six months ago I predicted - perhaps naively - that the Republican nominee would choose a couple of standard GOP insanities to drop during this campaign… both for the sake of the nation and for his own sake… and that with both nominees agreeing, we could finally turn our backs on insipid, disproved nostrums like climate denialism and Supply Side Voodoo Economics . (blogspot.com)
  • Hillary Clinton's forlorn efforts to woo more than a few of the sanest are - and always were - doomed, as your neighbors who are republicans follow their usual pattern of coalescing around their nominee. (blogspot.com)
  • Vice President Pence addresses a dinner Wednesday at the 2018 Republican retreat at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. (wgbh.org)
  • Republicans are gathered at the storied Greenbrier Resort - home to a Cold War-era bunker once meant to house Congress in the event of a nuclear attack - to plot the party's legislative agenda for 2018 and strategize for what could be a bruising midterm election. (wgbh.org)
  • It was developed, voted on and adopted by our members in March of 2018,' they state. (commondreams.org)
  • Of the 38 gubernatorial races in 2017 and 2018, 27 are held by Republicans-- many people feel have been in power too long. (blogspot.com)
  • The House vote comes as the Senate is moving on a similar track with enough Republican support to virtually ensure passage before the end of the year. (kmvt.com)
  • If we can flip Congress, then this will be among the first items to get enough Republican support to pass. (blogspot.com)
  • For Republicans, this year's budget process certainly appears to be the most promising vehicle through which to force changes to Pentagon policies. (washington-mail.com)
  • He voted for the purchase of new electronic voting machines for Georgia, in a measure that passed along a party-line vote, and claimed in 2019 that "the best way to rig or cheat in an election is paper ballots. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition to helping its own members win election campaigns, DSA has endorsed at least 45 other progressive candidates who will be serving in office in January, including 31 elected for the first time this year. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • The central idea behind House and Senate bills to reform an arcane federal election law is simple: Congress should not decide presidential elections. (kmvt.com)
  • The legislation would set new parameters around the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress that happens every four years after a presidential election. (kmvt.com)
  • Ahead of the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the legislation is necessary as there have been attempts in states across the country to change election laws to make it easier to nullify future results. (kmvt.com)
  • Putting a vote on the record before an election is a no-win in Washington. (protocol.com)
  • It's a cliché to call an election-year Congress do-nothing. (kosu.org)
  • And it means overcoming the sense that Congress cannot get much done - or at least cannot take big or politically risky steps - in an election year. (kosu.org)
  • Congress typically decamps for much of the fall prior to the general election in November. (kosu.org)
  • The Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank deregulation of Wall Street were finished in the midterm election year of 2010, and Obama's party got clobbered. (kosu.org)
  • The motivation is to give its members better chances in the election by avoiding difficult votes," Smith adds, "thereby enhancing the party's odds of retaining majority control. (kosu.org)
  • Smith says there can also be occasions where the election dynamic "justifies passing popular legislation and improving a reputation for competence at governing. (kosu.org)
  • Facing an election between a centrist Democrat and a fascist, the new Movement for a People's Party aims to prevent such sparse electoral choices in the future. (commondreams.org)
  • In a surreal year that has spiraled from surging hopes for a Bernie Sanders presidency to today's pandemic-hemmed fear and a tight election between centrist Democrats and fascistic Republicans, now may be just the right time for a new political party. (commondreams.org)
  • Several state legislators, including Sen. Bobby Hanig of Currituck County, criticized the decision, saying it's a bad idea to create more divisions within the party ahead of an election year when party unity will be paramount. (mystateline.com)
  • As we've mentioned, a week after the election, the Democrats had better get serious about preventing Republican dominance of Congress through gerrymandering. (blogspot.com)
  • In addition, a Republican-controlled legislative branch may pursue policy priorities that are not entirely in accordance with those of the president-elect. (harvard.edu)
  • Twenty-nine Democrats joined Republicans in supporting both bills. (wtop.com)
  • The industry needs people like Scott, who has introduced several health-related bills in recent years and maintains drug industry-friendly positions , in its corner. (californiahealthline.org)
  • While the House bill is more expansive than the Senate version, the two bills cover similar ground and members in both chambers are optimistic that they can work out the differences. (business-standard.com)
  • If Schumer continues to delay votes on these bills, it's clear he is picking the side of Big Tech monopolies over the desire of voters - and hurting his own members who are up for reelection. (protocol.com)
  • If he wants to give his party a sliver of hope this November, he will bring the bills to the floor for a vote. (protocol.com)
  • No budget, no separate spending bills until it was too late, a CR which takes spending power out of the hands of the people and puts all the power into the hands of a select few. (wjbf.com)
  • But other Republicans are skeptical that Mace is any real political danger. (fox16.com)
  • If there's not a Senate Republican vote for the package, then the American people are going to be very skeptical," Dole said. (coldplaying.com)
  • The legislation passed the state House overwhelmingly, but died in the state Senate amid opposition from the Georgia Department of Transportation, which objected to the portions of the bill that would have consolidated state transit operations. (wikipedia.org)
  • The legislation was a milder version of a more controversial state Senate bill, which would have implemented a state takeover of the Hartsfield-Jackson airport. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aaron Gould Sheinin, Bill puts limits on no-knock warrants, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (January 14, 2015). (wikipedia.org)
  • The final vote was 229-203, with nine Republicans joining all Democrats in voting for the bill. (kmvt.com)
  • After months of talks, House Democrats introduced their legislation Monday and held the quick vote two days later in order to send the bill across the Capitol and start to resolve differences. (kmvt.com)
  • In 2019, when the Senate Finance Committee considered a drug pricing bill crafted by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Scott voted against a measure that would have amended the legislation to allow Medicare drug price negotiation. (californiahealthline.org)
  • The bill would have allowed the federal government to negotiate prices for certain costly medicines and penalize drug companies that don't cooperate, among other provisions. (californiahealthline.org)
  • Across the Capitol, the Senate will hold a procedural vote for its own legislation to avert a shutdown this week, moving a legislative vehicle that will be used for an eventual stopgap bill. (ksnt.com)
  • A number of conservatives had initially endorsed the "laddered" continuing resolution approach, which is seen by many as a way to avoid an end-of-year omnibus funding bill and encourage Congress to work through the regular appropriations process. (ksnt.com)
  • As Christopher Shays, one of five House Republicans who voted against the bill to allow the Terri Schiavo case to be snatched from Florida state jurisdiction and moved to federal court, put it: "This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy. (smmirror.com)
  • The president, who couldn't be dragged outdoors to talk about the more than a hundred thousand people who died in the horrific tsunami, was willing to be dragged out of bed to sign a bill about one woman his base had fixated on. (smmirror.com)
  • The closed-door talks come after Republican senators for a second time blocked a bill to keep the government operating past Thursday and allow federal borrowing, risking a federal shutdown and devastating debt default - though both seem highly unlikely. (spokesman.com)
  • In Pennsylvania, McCarthy said that if Republicans win the House, the first bill next year will be to repeal funding approved by Democrats to bolster the Internal Revenue Service with more employees. (wcia.com)
  • She introduced legislation last month that would "seek to eliminate gaps in the integrated public alert and warning system," according to the bill. (fox16.com)
  • A move by Democrats to seek a partisan bill may provoke a backlash from Republicans and weaken public support for the health-care overhaul, Obama's top domestic priority. (coldplaying.com)
  • Former Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole told reporters earlier this summer that while he believed the Democrats could pass a bill on a party-line vote, it would be a mistake. (coldplaying.com)
  • Yes, it's true, Bill Clinton signed the bill into law, but the bill was written by Republicans. (thestranger.com)
  • While at least 10 GOP senators have signed on to the Senate version, the House vote fell mostly along party lines. (kmvt.com)
  • Daschle said the president continues to hope that Republican Senators Charles Grassley of Iowa, Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Olympia Snowe of Maine will support his agenda, as a result of their talks with finance panel chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat. (coldplaying.com)
  • He's given millions to a super-PAC that supports Republican senators. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • At the end of the segment, Carlson says he reached out to Ben Sasse, one of Nebraska's Republican senators, asking for a comment about what happened to Sidney. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • Millions of our fellow citizens are watching us now, gathered in this great chamber, hoping that we will govern not as two parties but as one Nation. (cbsnews.com)
  • Many of Scott's positions are aligned with his fellow Republicans in Congress who shun greater government intervention in controlling costs. (californiahealthline.org)
  • But Roy and Jordan will have to contend with a group of fellow Republicans who have condemned attempts at aggressively limiting asylum claims as cruel and out-of-touch with Latino communities. (azcapitoltimes.com)
  • Rep. Tony Gonzales, a fellow Texas Republican who represents a long portion of the U.S-Mexico border from El Paso to San Antonio, has emerged as Roy's foil in the GOP's border debate. (azcapitoltimes.com)
  • Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recalled how, after Dole was hit amid fighting in the Italian mountains in 1945, he was dragged behind a wall by a fellow soldier and 'lay there, facing up in the dirt. (scrippsnews.com)
  • She called Mace's vote to oust McCarthy a "political stunt" and suggested the congresswoman's move was to get more press exposure. (fox16.com)
  • In March 2019, Tanner and House members passed a measure to establishing a legislative oversight committee to monitor the operations of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Georgia's other commercial airports. (wikipedia.org)
  • If Gillespie or another Republican wins, Virginia will have a trifecta (unless Democrats take back one of the legislative chambers. (blogspot.com)
  • The business tax-reform proposals set forth in President-elect Trump's campaign and the House Republican proposal differ in certain key respects but have common themes, including a significantly reduced corporate tax rate, the ability to deduct capital expenses (at the price of forgoing interest deductions), and a one-time tax on accumulated foreign earnings. (harvard.edu)
  • Most notably, the House Republican proposal features a destination-based tax ( i.e. , income from foreign sales is exempt from U.S. tax, though income from U.S. sales is subject to full U.S. taxation), while President-elect Trump's proposal has no such tax or exemption. (harvard.edu)
  • In addition, the House Republican proposal would introduce a territorial tax system (modified by the destination-based tax), while Mr. Trump's proposal is less clear on its treatment of foreign earnings (potentially taxing some or all such earnings at the proposed lower rate of 15 percent). (harvard.edu)
  • Given that both President-elect Trump's campaign and the House Republican proposals are expected to be scored by the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to substantially reduce corporate tax revenues, it is uncertain whether the Republicans in Congress would ultimately approve such an expensive tax cut for business. (harvard.edu)
  • Even Trump's immigration proposal has received a lukewarm reception from Republicans in Congress because it includes a path to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million people residing in the U.S. illegally. (wgbh.org)
  • At least one Republican has already opened the door to a potential challenge - former state Rep. Katie Arrington (R), who ran against Mace with Trump's endorsement in 2022. (fox16.com)
  • Many of DSA's rank-and-file activists have become skilled political operatives, helping elect progressive candidates, at all levels of government. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • They are prepared to take on the tech titans if they take control of Congress, and if Schumer fails to hold a vote, Republican candidates will be sure to highlight Democrats' inaction in the final legs of their campaigns. (protocol.com)
  • Toyota gave political donations to not just Republican candidates, but ones who supported the "insurrection. (monoblogue.us)
  • Johnson unveiled his stopgap a day after Moody's - the last major credit ratings agency to maintain a top 'AAA' rating on the US government - lowered its outlook on the nation's credit to 'negative' from 'stable', citing political polarisation in Congress on spending as a danger to the nation's fiscal health. (yahoo.com)
  • Meanwhile, the behind the scenes action over the $3.5 trillion measure is testing Biden's grip on his party, as he seeks a once-in-a-generation reworking of the nation's balance sheets. (spokesman.com)
  • This year, federal judges in several cases have ruled that banning someone who uses drugs from owning a firearm is "inconsistent with the Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. (yahoo.com)
  • and to pursue a foreign policy that puts America's interests first. (cbsnews.com)
  • The 10-term lawmaker, who is a close McCarthy ally, is trying to both soothe tempers in the Republican conference while dealing with mounting pressure to act to show America's global strength. (wlns.com)
  • McCarthy, who is poised to seize the speaker's gavel if Republicans take control of the House in the fall, never once mentioned the former president. (wcia.com)
  • Mace joined a handful of GOP members led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) in voting to remove McCarthy from his leadership post on Tuesday. (fox16.com)
  • In 2016, Tanner sponsored legislation to regulate the use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) in Georgia. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2016, Tanner was the lead sponsor of legislation to allow businesses to refuse services to same-sex couples. (wikipedia.org)
  • Shelby Lin Erdman, Drone Legislation Takes Flight In Georgia General Assembly, Georgia Public Broadcasting (February 25, 2016). (wikipedia.org)
  • Singer himself was the second largest donor to the Republican Party in 2016. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • That partisan scrutiny comes as the leading candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination for president faces four sprawling criminal trials of his own, including charges for serious crimes allegedly committed while serving as 45th president. (yahoo.com)
  • It's easy to point to examples of past efforts that proved fruitless as members turned their attention all but exclusively to their reelection. (kosu.org)
  • The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a Republican agenda or a Democrat agenda. (cbsnews.com)
  • Ginny was a Republican, Perlmutter a Democrat, but that didn't faze her. (cpr.org)
  • Republicans have chosen a narrow path that imposes extreme pain and hardship on the most vulnerable people while doing nothing to actually solve the problem," said Rep. Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. (azcapitoltimes.com)
  • These, too, fell short in the Senate due to a wall of Republican resistance and the defection of one Democrat. (kosu.org)
  • Joining us now to talk about that and much more are two key members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee: Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah and Democrat John Edwards of North Carolina. (cnn.com)
  • It is a political dictum that opponents should be attacked and not voters. (blackagendareport.com)
  • Sen. Tim Scott , a rising star in the Republican Party with broad popularity in his home state of South Carolina, is getting showered with drug industry money before facing voters this fall. (californiahealthline.org)
  • The Democrats broke the Republican trifecta in Nevada and now control both houses, although the check on what they can do is a Republican governor. (blogspot.com)
  • None of the nine Republicans is returning to Congress next year. (kmvt.com)
  • In total, 27 drug and biotech companies or their powerful lobbying organizations in Washington contributed to his campaign accounts in the latter half of last year. (californiahealthline.org)
  • He also is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which this year is set to consider an issue of great importance to pharma companies: reauthorization of user fees the industry pays to the FDA to help expedite the drug review and approval process. (californiahealthline.org)
  • For Republicans this year, it may be easier to look back than to plan for what's to come. (wgbh.org)
  • She introduced legislation earlier this year that would push to have over-the-counter contraceptives applications given priority review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (fox16.com)
  • The GOP has not yet agreed on a replacement plan or the timetable for implementing it, although House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) promises passage of repeal-and-replace legislation this year. (medscape.com)
  • Tanner's candidacy was backed by influential Georgia Republicans, including former Governor Nathan Deal and allies of Governor Brian Kemp. (wikipedia.org)
  • That proposal, however, is already dividing the fractious House GOP conference, with some hard-line conservatives voicing opposition to the legislation because of the lack of spending cuts. (ksnt.com)
  • House Republicans are wasting precious time with an unserious proposal that has been panned by members of both parties,' she said. (yahoo.com)
  • But despite Johnson using that framework, some members of the right flank are coming out against his proposal because it does not include spending cuts and instead funds the government at current levels. (ksnt.com)
  • That's the goal," McHenry said earlier Thursday when asked if he would put a vote for speaker on the House floor. (wlns.com)
  • Aside from funding the government, the House this week will weigh in on a resolution to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) moved to force a vote on the legislation last week. (ksnt.com)
  • Especially when members are worried their vote will put them on the side of powerful special interests and against their constituents' best interest. (protocol.com)
  • That's why Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is holding up a Senate floor vote on legislation to rein in monopoly power in the tech industry. (protocol.com)
  • Yet Schumer is still showing no signs of holding a floor vote on either piece of legislation in the near future. (protocol.com)
  • Yet to a person, her interviewees hate the Environmental Protection Agency, and vote for political leaders who want to shut it down. (nationalmemo.com)
  • One could see a primary challenge coming at her because of her vote to throw the House of Representatives into chaos," said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean. (fox16.com)
  • After promising to bring a package of reform legislation up for a vote in the House in September, Speaker Paul Ryan changed his mind last month, and Congress went into recess without moving forward. (blogspot.com)
  • But Tillis, who had opposed it earlier in his political career, was among the early supporters of the law who lobbied his GOP colleagues in Congress to vote in favor of it. (mystateline.com)
  • While three House committees and one Senate panel have passed legislation, talks among the so-called Gang of Six negotiators on the Senate Finance Committee have dragged on for months. (coldplaying.com)
  • Further, 83% of Americans support the idea of Medicare negotiating with pharmaceutical firms to lower prices for both its beneficiaries as well those with private insurance - that's 95% of Democrats, 82% of independents, and 71% of Republicans. (californiahealthline.org)
  • Alexander Popp, Kevin Tanner announces bid to replace Doug Collins in Congress, Forsyth County News (February 1, 2020). (wikipedia.org)
  • Ed Kilgore, Georgia Republican Raffles Assault Rifle to Defend Against 'Looting Hordes From Atlanta', New York (April 7, 2020). (wikipedia.org)
  • We're going to get that neo-fascist out of the White House, and we're going to build a People's Party and get to work,' said former Ohio state Senator Nina Turner , chair of Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign, as she culminated the first-ever online creation of a political party on Sunday, August 30, following five hours of webinar speeches melding outrage and inspiration. (commondreams.org)
  • In 2013, Tanner introduced legislation that would classify the identity of companies that supply execution drugs to Georgia as a "confidential state secret" and thus preclude the information's release to the public. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tanner in running against former Representative Paul Broun, State Senator John Wilkinson, and State Representative Matt Gurtler in the Republican primary. (wikipedia.org)
  • Execution Drug Companies A State Secret? (wikipedia.org)
  • In doing so, he is technically keeping the House active but in a suspended state as both parties wait for Republicans to reach consensus on who will be the next new speaker. (wlns.com)
  • It embodies the state he's proud to call home and his advocacy for space issues in Congress. (cpr.org)
  • As an award-winning journalist, Shaw has earned top awards from the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, earning two regional Emmy awards, and an award from the Kentucky Associated Press for political coverage of the state legislature. (ket.org)
  • He later received a master's degree in political science from Kansas State University. (quantumbooks.com)
  • Organizers aim to tap local activists across the country to help launch party chapters as well as state-level hubs and nine regional branches. (commondreams.org)
  • There's likely a tipping point race for Congress or state assembly near you and it's not to late to help, or donate. (blogspot.com)
  • A two-thirds majority of the state party's 1,801 voting delegates was needed for the resolution to pass, party spokesperson Jeff Moore said. (mystateline.com)
  • Together, we can break decades of political stalemate. (cbsnews.com)
  • There is some thought that in the interest of national security - because we're in a dangerous time and we have to get a national security aid package to Israel - that we could somehow empower McHenry to have more authorities," said Rep. Michael McCaul, the Republican chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee. (wlns.com)
  • While Senate Democrats like Hillary Clinton, who are trying to curry favor with red staters, meekly allowed the shameful legislation to be enacted, at least some Floridian House members decided to put up a fight, though they knew they couldn't win. (smmirror.com)
  • While campaigning for Clinton, he's focusing hard on Congress, where the legislation that he wants must pass, cornering HC to put up. (blogspot.com)
  • Democrats who once buzzed about a possible Hillary Clinton landslide aided by disaffected Republicans, are finally waking up. (blogspot.com)
  • 2- Clinton used the word 'Republican' just ONCE in the 1st debate. (blogspot.com)
  • The major regulations that could have stopped the 2008 crash were repealed by the Clinton administration and never put back into place. (thestranger.com)
  • At the very least, you would have to say that both Republicans and the Clinton administration were responsible. (thestranger.com)
  • Just to be clear, the Republicans who wrote the GLBA we're not part of the Clinton administration. (thestranger.com)
  • House Republicans are once again putting polluters over people," he said. (wtop.com)
  • The oligarchy allowed his American Rescue Plan stimulus program to go through but then put a stop on Build Back Better or any other legislation that would help the people in a meaningful way. (blackagendareport.com)
  • Listen, Liberal: Or, Whatever Happened to the Party of the People? (nationalmemo.com)
  • He has indicated, much to the chagrin of people in his party, that virtually everything's on the table. (coldplaying.com)
  • Federal law prohibits people who use drugs from buying firearms, but questions surrounding the constitutionality of that law could throw the case into jeopardy following a landmark US Supreme Court decision that opened a wave of litigation under the court's expansive Second Amendment lens. (yahoo.com)
  • The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits people who use drugs from possessing firearms, a ban that applies to people who have admitted to using illegal drugs within 12 months before buying a gun, according to the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. (yahoo.com)
  • The short answer: Because people like Paul Singer have tremendous influence over our political process. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • The "Tea Party" midterm in 2010 cost Democrats more than 60 seats (and the majority) in the House. (kosu.org)
  • Republicans hold 52 Senate seats, far short of the 60 needed to end any talkathon filibuster by Democrats. (medscape.com)
  • House Republicans are gridlocked with no end in sight, a war is escalating in Israel and Palestine and the U.S. government is ticking closer to a shutdown. (wlns.com)
  • The US government faces a shutdown unless Congress overcomes a budget impasse. (yahoo.com)
  • Congress has just five days to avert a shutdown. (ksnt.com)
  • Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, slammed Johnson's plan in a fiery statement , arguing that his approach "is setting up a system that will double the number of shutdown showdowns. (ksnt.com)
  • As the legislation comes into focus, the adjustments will follow -child care subsidies could be offered for several years, or just a few. (spokesman.com)
  • The hearing also comes as Republicans, more than 100 days into their new House majority, are under political pressure to deliver on a key campaign promise to secure the border. (azcapitoltimes.com)
  • It has also been criticized by moderate Republicans who would be crucial to it passing the House, where Republicans have a slim 222-213 majority. (azcapitoltimes.com)
  • For now, in the latter half of the 117th Congress, the Democrats' main problem is overcoming their weakness in the Senate, where resistance from one or two of their 50 members has deprived them of a working majority. (kosu.org)
  • Both the House and the Senate were controlled by Republicans, and it was the first time the House had a GOP majority to protect since the mid-1950s. (kosu.org)
  • Former Republican Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts said Dole used humor as a political tool, delivering deadpan punchlines which helped let 'the air out of the partisan balloons. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Virtually every Tea Party advocate I interviewed for this book," she writes, "has personally benefited from a government service or has close family who have. (nationalmemo.com)
  • By press time today, 7,639 convention participants (among viewers and online listeners, who numbered roughly 95,000 on Periscope) had voted to approve the official creation of the People's Party. (commondreams.org)
  • In short, our history and tradition may support some limits on an intoxicated person's right to carry a weapon, but it does not justify disarming a sober citizen based exclusively on his past drug usage," Ronald Reagan-appointed US District Judge Jerry Smith wrote for a federal appeal courts panel in August . (yahoo.com)
  • Nor do more generalized traditions of disarming dangerous persons support this restriction on nonviolent drug users. (yahoo.com)
  • And provisions to fight climate change or curb prescription drug prices could change. (spokesman.com)
  • Some 2.6 million Americans would lose their jobs and the economy would shudder if a Republican-controlled Congress repeals key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without passing healthcare reforms of their own, a new study shows. (medscape.com)
  • Under normal circumstances, such legislation, which bears no weight of law, would pass easily. (wlns.com)
  • House Republicans hope to pass the measure on Tuesday. (yahoo.com)
  • But so far, they have failed to unify behind a plan, delaying efforts to pass legislation. (azcapitoltimes.com)
  • That process allows the Senate to pass, with 51 votes instead of 60 typically needed for contentious legislation, measures intended to cut the federal budget deficit either through spending cuts or tax increases. (coldplaying.com)