UPDATED: 2:50 p.m. EST, with clarification*
Anti-abortion-rights group Operation Rescue has released its most recent undercover look at the American abortion industry, using excerpted audio recordings to show “millions of tax dollars are already paying for abortions each year.”
A small cadre of House Republicans on Thursday introduced legislation that will force Michigan State University and Wayne State University to forfeit millions of dollars in state aid payments.
The move comes as the GOP claims the two universities violated a tuition restraint deal in the most recently enacted budget More…
House Republicans will vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act on January 12, one week into the 112th Congress. The bill is called “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.” “Job-killing” is mentioned four times in the two-page bill.
An accompanying resolution instructs relevant committees on how to replace More…
This nugget from Jake Sherman and Patrick O’Connor’s preview of the House GOP retreat deserves more attention.
[House Minority Leader John] Boehner has told his rank and file to embrace the so-called tea party movement “because it will be critical as we proceed,” according to excerpts from his remarks.
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The Republican alternative budget, introduced this morning by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), is here. It has cost analyses and projections, unlike the widely panned “blueprint” released last week by House GOP leaders, and it’s unfortunate for Ryan that the previous botched press conference stole his thunder. But there More…
Is this really the talking point Republicans want to use in their fight against climate change legislation? At a congressional hearing last week, Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) argued that we could afford to keep increasing the levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, since dinosaurs got by just fine More…
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