Tag Archives: United States Congress

Townhall: Paul Greenberg: Howard Baker, Man in the Middle

Source:The New Democrat  To me at least as someone who is not a Republican Howard Baker the former U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Republican Leader who served both as Minority Leader with a Democratic President in Jimmy Carter and Senate … Continue reading

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The Fiscal Times: Eric Pianin: Senator John Thune’s Thorny Political Test: Pass the Highway Bill

Source:The New Democrat  If Congress were under different and I would just state wiser leadership funding the Highway Trust Fund wouldn’t be that big of a deal. But since we have a Republican House of Representatives that is essentially run … Continue reading

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The Fiscal Times: Rob Garver: Senate Alums Have a Plan to Fix Our Broken Government

The Fiscal Times There really isn’t any plan that would fix our U.S. Congress that is so unpopular that only its members, family and staff for the members and perhaps some mental patients approve of the job that it is … Continue reading

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Roll Call: Report: Steven Dennis: Senator Tim Kaine, President Obama Must Get Congress’s Approval Before War on ISIL in Iraq

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine Roll Call: Report: Steven Dennis: Senator Tim Kaine, “President Obama Must Get Congress’s OK Before War on ISIL in Iraq” Even though technically President Obama may not need Congressional approval to take the country back to … Continue reading

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Roll Call: Opinion: David Eldridge: A Look Back at Congress’s Most Memorable Leadership Races

Roll Call: Opinion: David Eldridge: A Look Back at Congress’s Most Interesting Leadership Races “Pershing, who went on from Roll Call to The Washington Post, where he covers politics, does a great job showing how leadership battles shaped the futures … Continue reading

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C-SPAN: Lewis Black: ‘The Beltway Alone Was Built by Idiots’

Source:The New Democrat  In the fall of 2011, Congress, with a Republican House and Democratic Senate, reached  a debt ceiling agreement with President Obama.  As part of that agreement,  Congress took on the monumental task of finding an additional two-trillion … Continue reading

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Townhall: John C. Goodman: A Republican Vision For Health Care Reform

Source:The New Democrat  The thing about the Republican critique of the Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare, especially from the Tea Party, that has probably annoyed me the most, is the fact that they’ve never been able to present an alternative … Continue reading

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Thom Hartmann: Video: The Progressive Budget vs. Paul Ryan’s Budget

Derik Schneider on Google+ The New Democrat on Facebook The New Democrat on Twitter This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger I wish I knew how many members would have actually voted for the so-called House … Continue reading

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C-SPAN: House Judiciary Committee: Attorney General Eric Holder to Representative Louie Gohmert: You Don’t Want to go There Buddy

Source:The New Democrat  This video displays what I love about Attorney General Eric Holder and why he’s so unpopular with Congressional Republicans.  Representative Louie Gohmert has less brains than a rock sitting on the bottom of a river, as the … Continue reading

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The Young Turks: ‘Kissing Representative Vance McAllister Caught on Camera’

Source:The New Democrat Perhaps the new way to describe the Christian Right in America is to call them the “Do What I Say Not What I do Right.”  Perhaps the so-called the “Family Values Coalition” (which has as much meaning … Continue reading

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