During and after a pair of anti-health care bill rallies on Capitol Hill, I asked a few Republican members of the House — two of whom went on stage — whether they thought the Tea Parties would win out and stop the bill.
“[Rep.] Bart Stupak [D-Mich]” says he has More…
Georgia’s House Republicans have a simple warning for Democratic leaders still hoping to pass health care reform this year: Our state can’t afford it.
In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the Republicans argue that the Democrats’ plans to expand Medicaid, a program More…
At the beginning of the month, with very little fanfare, Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas), a freshman member who holds Tom DeLay’s old seat, introduced H. Res 809 to honor James O’Keefe III and Hannah Giles, the young conservatives who filmed the ACORN sting that grabbed headlines More…
It’s been about a week since four bigoted members of Congress used a book published by the birthers at WorldNetDaily to call for a witchhunt of Muslims on Capitol Hill. And, in a testament to sanity, no such investigation appears to be underway. But members from the Congressional “Tri-Caucus” More…
Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) has uploaded the video of her press conference with Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.). “About a year ago,” said Myrick, “I learned that CAIR was trying to infiltrate the offices of members of Congress by placing interns More…
I talked briefly with Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) at an early-morning House GOP briefing by Republican members of Congress on the impact of the August recess, and asked him how he’ll vote on a censure resolution against Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.).
“I’m voting against it and I hope every More…
Blake Aued has the scoop on the latest of many rants from the ultra-conservative Georgia congressman on the subject of whether President Obama is becoming a dictator. (The first came days after the 2008 election.) “He told a meeting of the Morgan County Republicans on Wednesday More…
Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), who apologized shortly after the 2008 election for comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler, is going back to that well. The Athens Banner-Herald reports on a town hall meeting where Broun called Democratic health care reform plans “a stinking, rotten fish.”
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Democrats and Republicans are on the House floor debating the Waxman-Markey climate change bill. Kate Sheppard, the great climate reporter for Grist, is live-tweeting the debate, and there are some choice attacks from Republicans.
We all knew it was coming. It was just a matter of when.
After the election, it took all of six days — a surprisingly long time, actually — before a Southern GOP Congressman said something crazy about President-elect Barack Obama.
The charge: Obama is a closet totalitarian Marxist and More…
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