House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., tears her copy of President Donald Trump’s s State of the Union address after he delivered … (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Lots of hullabaloo has been made over the past 24 hours since the Speaker of the House of Representatives … The leader of the anti-Trump crew in the House just lost her cool and we should all just laugh and enjoy the moment.…
Late last night, Huffington Post broke news of a reported House compromise to “repeal” Obamacare. … Over to HuffPost:
The deal, brokered between HouseFreedomCaucus chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Tuesday Group co-chairman Tom … Obamacare *might* be repealed in your state, if your legislators and governor have the balls to do what the House GOP apparently does…
Ted Cruz is apparently already a little worried about Republicans keeping the White House in 2020. … “Those voices in the White House that are trying to get the White House to unload on conservatives, to unload on the FreedomCaucus … , are doing the bidding of the left, of [House Democratic Leader] Nancy Pelosi [Calif.] and [Senate Democratic Leader] Chuck Schumer…
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan finally managed to do it: he got rid of that self-serving, “signature” legislation Democrats called … And then there’s the “House of Cards” nature of politics. … The FreedomCaucus voted no on Ryan’s original bill, but never really grandstanded about it (they could have been much more in the…
It’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of the healthcare bill that just passed in the House of Representatives. … The best thing Kentucky Senator Rand Paul could say was that the HouseFreedomCaucus made the bill “a lot less bad.” … @RandPaul: "The HouseFreedomCaucus made the bill a lot less bad." pic.twitter.com/T8Ka4ZxRp6
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 4, 2017…
Today, the House passed the repeal and replace bill with 217 Republicans voting for it, 20 Republicans voting against and all Democrats … Once the Senate passes their bill, a conference committee will get together to iron out a compromise that will likely remove some House … Whatever bill that comes out of the conference committee will need HouseFreedomCaucus support and moderate support again in the Senate…
As RedState reported earlier, the American Health Care Act was passed by the House of Representatives today. … Not everyone in the Republican caucus was on board though. … Only one FreedomCaucus member was a nay.
Only one member of the conservative HouseFreedomCaucus, freshman Rep.…
House leadership has assured reporters that they have the votes needed to pass the bill. … Voters first gave them the House immediately following the passage of Obamacare. … To make the bill palatable to the must-have HouseFreedomCaucus, two amendments were added.…
The House announced Wednesday evening that it will vote on the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on Thursday. … #BREAKING House to vote tomorrow on health care
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 3, 2017
The AHCA was reintroduced last month … with changes that were clearly meant to assuage the conservative HouseFreedomCaucus.…
The HouseFreedomCaucus has announced its support of the American Health Care Act. … ) April 26, 2017
NEWS: FreedomCaucus announces support for AHCA with Rep. … Statement: https://t.co/MD3NXpiPQ8
— HouseFreedomCaucus (@freedomcaucus) April 26, 2017
In the statement on Rep.…
That is just one of the chilling messages FreedomCaucus member Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) has received in recent weeks. … Republicans have been dealing with raucous town hall crowds for a few months stemming from House debate over the repealing and replacing…
Cruz went on to say he has been working around the clock with members of Trump’s administration, as well as the conservative House … FreedomCaucus to craft this alternative measure. … The current incarnation of a repeal and replace bill has made it through the House, but still must clear the Senate, and nobody is…
After the House passed the GOP version of an Obamacare replacement on Thursday, Democrats taunted Republican lawmakers by singing, … The first version of a replacement didn’t make it as far as the first vote in the House. … The FreedomCaucus successfully shut down a vote before it could even happen, feeling the bill in that incarnation did nothing to bring…
The conservative HouseFreedomCaucus has gotten much of the credit – or blame, depending on your point of view – for yesterday’s … But one caucus member has admitted that he attempted to read the entire bill, but ended up glossing over a lot of it.
Rep.…
He spoke about the importance of freedom of speech (which does include that handful of individuals’ right to walk out of a commencement … Once a beacon for freedom of thought, speech, and ideas, college campuses have turned into “safe speech zones” where individuals value … He is also Chairman of the HouseFreedomCaucus.…
Mark Meadows is chair of the HouseFreedomCaucus, a group of representatives whose disgust with the initial version of the AHCA put … Mark Meadows, (R-N.C.), a leader of the HouseFreedomCaucus who helped negotiate the final language in the House bill. … If not, HouseFreedomCaucus members will not be the only ones who consider the bill to be unacceptable.…
Caucus—a congressional bloc of conservative and libertarian Republicans allied with the Tea Party movement who stormed back to relevance … “They are trying to strategize how best to attack this issue,” Rizer said, noting that he had met with several FreedomCaucus members … House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said the FISA leaks would make renewing the law difficult in the House…
appears that, while Republicans in Congress are ready to get something done about Obamacare, there are still many holdouts in the House … For the House, the opposition came largely in the form of the FreedomCaucus, which has been a thorn in the side of House Leadership…
Sanders supporter and failed assassin, James Hodgkinson, was carrying what amounts to a hit list containing names of members of the Freedom … Caucus:
The list of names included Alabama Rep. … All six congressmen are members of the HouseFreedomCaucus, which contains the lower chamber’s most conservative members.…
Mo Brooks, a conservative representative and member of the HouseFreedomCaucus, is challenging Senator Luther Strange, and some GOP … Brooks was also a vocal opponent of the House healthcare bill (he eventually voted for it, according to the article linked above, after…
HouseFreedomCaucus Chair Mark Meadows broke from withholding comment on the process in the upper chamber to say he is in favor of … The HouseFreedom Caucus’s tacit approval via Rep. … Meadows, while not germane to the Senate bill, indicates that there could be much-needed support from House conservatives if a viable…
The HouseFreedomCaucus has announced it’s withholding support of the current Republican budget that is up for a committee vote on … Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a FreedomCaucus leader, told The Hill. … Beyond wanting to double the current cuts from $200 billion to $400 billion, the FreedomCaucus wants to make sure that the budget…
backed Ryan’s fake repeal:
The FreedomCaucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast. … FreedomCaucus he previously despised:
Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that … However under the FreedomCaucus “Repeal THEN Replace” process, every provision of Obamacare you want to keep, you have to introduce…
I’m feeling that way about how Republicans who told use that they ONLY needed to control the House of Representatives, the Senate, … and the White House and the Obamacare nightmare would be made a historical footnote. … Caucus members again.…