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House GOP bill links payroll tax cut to oil pipeline approval, cuts to unemployment benefits

By | 12.13.11 | 12:52 pm | More from The Florida Independent

A GOP bill that would cut payroll taxes for American workers and approve an oil pipeline also contains changes to federally funded unemployment compensation programs set to expire Dec. 31.

Bristol and Snooki nation: ‘Jersey Shore’ company plans politics reality TV show

By | 10.25.11 | 5:29 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

U.S. politics today features a speaker of the House with an orange tan and the kind of constant unoriginal and petty backbiting and betrayals that are the stock in trade of reality TV. Why pretend otherwise? Where some might see tragedy, the media company behind “Jersey Shore” sees opportunity. More…

Slick campaigning: Tipton campaign running on oil and gas

By | 10.19.11 | 12:03 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Oil and gas money is greasing the wheels of U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton’s reelection campaign, which more than doubled its fundraising bounty for the quarter that just ended, public records show.

Politico: 3rd CD race among five ‘that could break the bank’

By | 10.18.11 | 4:17 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

The race between longtime incumbent U.S. Reps. Leonard Boswell and Tom Latham in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District is among five “that could break the bank,” Politico says.

High-ranking GOPers promise continued anti-abortion push in 2012

By | 10.07.11 | 2:03 pm

House Speaker John Boehner told a crowd of thousands at the sixth annual Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C., that giving birth to 12 boys and girls probably was not convenient for his mother. But she did it, one at a time.

Obama’s move on trade agreements praised by Florida Republicans

By | 10.04.11 | 2:51 pm | More from The Florida Independent

President Obama sent new free trade agreements with Colombia, Korea and Panama to Congress on Monday, a move many Florida Republicans are praising despite reports of potential American job losses and persistent anti-labor violence in Colombia.

The Miami Herald reports today that “both Miami Republican Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen on More…

Federal lawmakers demand Boehner disclose House DOMA defense

By | 09.27.11 | 11:33 am | More from The Michigan Messenger

Michigan Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Detroit) is among a group of lawmakers demanding Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) provide a briefing on the House’s defense of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

‘Real time’ sonograms to be held on Capitol Hill by anti-abortion rights activists

By | 09.23.11 | 3:25 pm | More from The Florida Independent

An anti-abortion rights campaign called “Voices From the Womb” will perform live ultrasounds on pregnant women on Capitol Hill as part of the launch of a national campaign in October.

According to a More…

Anti-abortion-rights activist hopes to be the David to Boehner’s Goliath in House primary

By | 09.20.11 | 1:04 pm

Tuesday afternoon, in Speaker of the House John Boehner’s home state, anti-abortion-rights protesters are organizing a rally to encourage the Ohio Senate to pass controversial legislation that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.

Colorado Democrats condemn national Republicans over payroll tax

By | 08.29.11 | 11:50 am | More from The Colorado Independent

It must be opposite day. Republicans, many of whom have pledged to not even consider any plan that raises taxes, are clamoring to raise the payroll tax. Democrats, many of whom have said the country can’t be serious about cutting the deficit if taxes can’t be raised, are fighting More…