The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee axed three Republican immigration bills Monday. Like many times this session, the committee, on a party-line vote, turned down legislation that targeted voting accessibility and immigration concerns. Also killed was a bill ridiculed by some as a “birther bill.” That legislation would More…
Continuing today’s unexpected surge of “birther” news, Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.)–the freshman Republican who has introduced legislation that would demand proof of citizenship from future presidential candidates–is using WorldNetDaily’s “alerts” email list to raise reelection cash.
“I commend Rep. Bill Posey for taking the lead in introducing and securing More…
This is getting to be a theme today. The Houston Chronicle takes note of the six Texas Republican congressmen (the editorial was apparently written before Louie Gohmert joined in yesterday) who have co-sponsored Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-Fla.) “birther bill,” and chides the two members from the More…
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), a former judge, is the latest congressman—and sixth Texas congressman—to co-sponsor Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-Fla.) bill requiring future presidential candidates to provide the Federal Election Commission copies of their birth certificates. Gohmert’s the first to do so since the passage of the Hawaii 50th anniversary More…
Bill Pascoe, who worked for both of the luckless Republicans who ran against Barack Obama in the 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate race, tells his party to distance itself from the “birthers” already. It’s worth reading, but this assertion rings false.
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Kris Kobach is a law professor with degrees from Harvard, Yale and Oxford, and a veteran of George W. Bush’s administration who, after Sept. 11, helped craft the policy on domestic registration of foreign visitors to the United States. In May, he More…
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