here: the short version is that the Senate back in June kicked off opposition to continued ethanol subsidies via a bipartisan amendment … Removing the subsidies and tariffs – which is another way of saying ‘picking winners and losers’ – is a good first step towards coming…
That was our time to push for Cut, Cap, Balance, or at the very least, a plain balanced budget amendment. … After enjoying a free ride on the first $900 billion of debt, Obama now has the authority to issue another $1.2 trillion of debt. … He has blown through the first ‘tranche’ of the debt ceiling increase at a rate of almost $6 billion per day. …
amendment requiring a balanced budget—to end its perpetual expansion. … Now is the time to pass a balanced budget amendment. … The only way to do that is through a balanced budget amendment.…
trying to solve a real problem with new rhetorical spin while advocating for more of the same policies that caused the problem in the first … All Senate Republicans support passage of a balanced budget amendment. … Geithner should be one of the top supporters of the balanced budget amendment; it would mean he’d never have to ask Congress for a…
In the letter, they first state unequivocally that they will not vote for a debt-ceiling increase without accompanying cuts and reforms … fundamentally and permanently reform the way that Washington budgets and spends, we must send to the states a Balanced Budget Amendment … (BBA) with strong protections against federal tax increases and including a Spending Limitation Amendment (SLA) like the statutory…
, I think we would eventually get the balanced budget amendment passed. … passed, that would mean next year the states would be debating ratifying that amendment. … But unless we pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution this government will bankrupt our country.…
“Senator Kyl wanted your boss to be aware of a possible firearms amendment that could be voted on today as part of an amendment agreement … Paul USA Patriot Act Gun Records Amendment? … Paul amendment prevents this hypothetical scenario from becoming reality.…
“Dirty Harry” Moves To Shut Out Pro-Gun Rand Paul Amendment
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1. … Koch Brothers.Today Fang attacked the freshman Republican from Arizona’s First Congressional District, Paul Gosar. … The “amendment tree” used to block Republicans from offering amendments on the floor?…
The “amendment tree” used to block Republicans from offering amendments on the floor? … In order to circumvent Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s pro-gun amendment to the bill, Reid has now scuttled the Senate version of the … As you know, Rand Paul’s amendment would exempt 4473’s and other gun records from the blanket information demands which BATF can make…
That’s why I am very pleased that today, the Senate Republican Conference will roll out a balanced budget amendment, cosponsored by … The new, consensus balanced budget amendment is exactly what our country needs. … The balanced budget amendment is the first major step this Congress can take to impose a straitjacket on government spending, restore…
He points out:
Unfortunately, this is not the first time your organization has defended distortions in the tax code. … You opposed my amendment on the grounds that it was a “tax increase.” … As CCAGW President Tom Schatz wrote in support of my amendment, “At a time when the nation’s debt has ballooned to more than $14.2…
Instead, says the Republican leadership, this is only the first of a series of battles.
First, there will be the debt limit. … A balanced budget constitutional amendment? … sound bite, that this is different from the “18% of GDP, subject to sequestration, with supermajority and emergency escape valves” amendment…
They propose an awesome Balanced Budget Amendment as a concession for raising the debt limit. … The amendment would force Congress to pass a balanced budget; the President to submit a balanced budget; the capping of spending at … Boehner has already punted on the first one. …
First, the mention of ‘weighting’ is unusual in that back in the runup to the 2010 elections, PPP polls didn’t mention any weighting … And lastly we move onto the question that brought this poll into prominence in the first place. … The state had already defined marriage as between a man and a woman in 1997 when a constitutional amendment doing the same was passed…
Earlier this week, Paul Ryan bravely offered the first steps toward achieving fiscal solvency and vitiating dependency on government … This proposal will be introduced as a floor amendment to Ryan’s budget resolution next week. … On Tuesday, we posted an analysis of Ryan’s budget from a conservative perspective, noting that it was an excellent first step; however…
First of all, Obama himself has in the past been okay with the D.C. abortion restrictions. … , Pelosi, and Obama have all voted for appropriations bills that included the Dornan amendment. … President Obama signed the Dornan amendment into law in the fiscal year 2009 budget.…
Rodgers and David Dreier switched their votes from yes to no in the last minute in order to thwart a Democrat plan to let the amendment … Every conservative should support this amendment. … Tell them to vote for the RSC budget amendment! After all, this is the real fight, isn’t it?…
see the survival of the D.C. school voucher program that black parents in Washington, D.C. have been begging for only to see the first … Barack Obama had signed that, called the Dornan Amendment, into law in 2009 and it had the support of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and…
The FirstAmendment reads (in part): “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech….” … These two FirstAmendment assaults were imposed in the name of government-defined-and-mandated speech “equality.”…
I’ll be the first to say I applaud Dr. Carson’ comments. … We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections…
