Feb 28, 2013 – natural to suppress speech that they don’t like and seem utterly oblivious to claims that this violates the letter and spirit of the First … Amendment.…

Feb 28, 2013 – The First Amendment prohibits Congress from abridging either “the freedom of speech” (the Speech Clause) or the freedom “of the press … The Supreme Court has stated that new types of speakers or forms of communication are entitled to the same First Amendment protection … The Court has applied First Amendment protection to television broadcasters and cable operators, and I expect the Court will apply…

Feb 26, 2013 – It is time for conservative Senators to pledge to filibuster everything under the Sun.Let’s start with the House first. … When Republican freshmen come to Washington for the first time every two years, House leadership immediately drills into their heads … Demand number one is to allow bills to be on the Senate floor for a few days and will a real opportunity for amendment.…

Feb 21, 2013 – think of it, spearheading Obama’s pathetic and cynical play on the Newtown massacre to deny law-abiding Americans their Second Amendment … In a firefight with multiple intruders where you are defending your home and your family, 10 rounds will get used up in the first 4 … The Second Amendment is not so much about home defense as it is about the ability of the citizens to protect themselves from government…

Mar 11, 2013 – Ted Cruz has introduced an amendment to defund Obamacare.  … amendment.  … There will be no balanced budgets without first derailing implementation of the biggest budget-buster in American history.…

Mar 8, 2013 – this errant nonsense: At a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) opposed an amendment … any liberal Democrat (or other kind of historical illiterate) reading this… the properties of post-traumatic stress disorder were first…

Mar 7, 2013 – “Would you tolerate a Republican who said I like the first amendment, I don’t plan to violate the first amendment, but I might,…”…

Mar 7, 2013 – They actively lobbied against Rand Paul’s amendment to block transfer of planes and tanks to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, weapons … First, in an attempt to ensconce the partisan divide over Israel, they will never support anything that Democrats will not vote for…

Mar 6, 2013 – The very first priority of every elected official—Democrat and Republican—should be restoring economic growth, so we can ensure continued … Therefore, when the Senate votes on the Continuing Resolution, I intend to offer a “Restore Growth First” amendment which will delay…

Mar 4, 2013 – On Monday morning the Colorado Senate will take up a package of anti-second amendment measures, four of which have already been passed … State Capitol TODAY and then do two things when you get there.I would like to join him in calling for those who support the Second Amendment … and the human right to self defense to do two things on Monday morning: First, show up at the Colorado State Capitol early Monday…

Mar 20, 2013 – Senators Durbin and Enzi are inserting an internet tax as an amendment to the Senate budget bill.The tax sounds innocuous enough. … The Marketplace Fairness Act, for the first time, establishes a national sales tax. It does so by hiding behind the states.…

Mar 17, 2013 – McCain’s derisive comment calling Cruz and Rand Paul wacko birds: “When Rand and I first heard that we thought maybe that was a new … Senator Cruz cited Rand Paul’s recent filibuster, sequestration implementation, and Cruz’ amendment to repeal funding for ObamaCare … , the campaign to restrict gun rights, called for repeal of the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”), in highlighting the First…

Mar 14, 2013 – With the passage of the 16th Amendment in 1913, the federal government gained the ability to siphon more money from the states through … The same year, the 17th Amendment sharply undercut state legislators’ influence by subjecting U.S. … As a first step toward putting competitive federalism into action, Mayer explained that the Liberty Foundation plans to ask members…

Mar 12, 2013 – For the first time in almost two years we are actually having a discussion about the rising cost of health insurance engendered by … Cruz is proposing an amendment to the CR, which is already full of Barbara Mikulski’s pork, to defund Obamacare. … Supporting the amendment in the abstract is not good enough. …

Mar 29, 2013 – First, you are not loving your neighbor if you are cool with them going to hell. Do you want to go to hell? No? … We are using the state to protect our ability to preach the scripture under the first amendment.…

Mar 28, 2013 – Fifty-eight percent of first births among this group are now to unmarried women. … About 60 percent of first born children in Denmark now have unmarried parents. … (Solely on the “marriage” front, in Massachusetts’s first four years, this statistic was 62 percent.)…

Mar 28, 2013 – These numbers are never cited by anti-Second Amendment advocates. … not cede further ground on this issue due to fear on language: any attempt to curtail the civil liberty outlined in the Second Amendment … First, they’re interchangeable, easily modified, and can be made with remedial shop skills in your garage.…

Mar 28, 2013 – The religious liberty in the first amendment is meant to protect the religious as they seek to draw people to them. … But the world demands instead that the first amendment be used to draw the religious to the world and silence those who refuse to go…

Mar 26, 2013 – ObamaCare for illegals Last Friday, the Senate voted along party lines (43-56) to kill an amendment that would have prevented illegal … It was my first opportunity to observe Obama closely. … His amendment would have required the payment of “prevailing wages” (significantly higher than the minimum wage) to guest workers,…

Mar 26, 2013 – It should never have been regulated by government in the first place, and government shouldn’t have an expanded reach in further regulating … Do not people of faith retain their First Amendment liberty of freedom of religion?…

Mar 26, 2013 – Libertarians will have to decide which they value more — the ability of a single digit percentage of Americans to get married or the first … amendment.…

Mar 26, 2013 – They were on opposite sides of the sales tax compact amendment vote, though. … That is, any one first state that shifts from buyer-owes to seller-owes in sales tax, creating the marketplace of sales taxes that…

Mar 25, 2013 – Any amendment to the Rules must first pass in the Standing Committee on Rules, and then it must pass by a 75% vote of the entire 168 … The influence of the RNC chairman is so powerful that no amendment to the Rules is likely without your personal support.  … Your neutrality would probably defeat any proposed amendment which is in any way controversial.…

Mar 24, 2013 – Early Saturday morning, the Senate adopted its first concurrent budget resolution in four years.  … On the Republican side, perhaps the most egregious vote was the Enzi amendment to allow states to form a cartel and collect internet … The so-called Market Fairness Act passed in the form of a second degree amendment by 75-24, with the support of 26 Republicans. …

Mar 22, 2013 – We have a First Amendment, which I strongly support.…