Jun 21, 2012 – That way you can easily track how your member voted on every consequential bill or amendment. … Our first release is the Farm Bill.  Nothing embodies the “red state statist” problem more than farm and energy subsidies.  … This is especially true with the 12 annual appropriations bills, in which the open amendment process in the House (thank you Speaker…

Jun 21, 2012 – First of all, this quote was given in the context of whether this amendment applied to Indians not taxed. … This understanding is also confirmed by the congressional debates surrounding the Fourteenth Amendment. … As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. …

Jun 20, 2012 – Accordingly, one would expect Democrats to be the first ones to issue garrulous protestations against farm handouts for the rich.  … Yesterday, Senator Rand Paul offered an amendment to deny access to farm programs for those with an AGI of over $250,000 annually.  … Only 1 Democrat (Herb Kohl) in the entire Senate voted for this amendment.  Sadly, only 14 Republicans voted for it either.…

Jun 20, 2012 – The first would eliminate the sugar program completely. … In a rare demonstration of bipartisan common-sense, this amendment almost survived a tabling motion last week by a margin of just four … This week, the Senate will vote on an alternative amendment that will reform the sugar program rather than eliminate it.…

Jul 5, 2012 – child.Also in China, unlike the United States, the 3 men in China are able to kill dissidents exercises what we hick Americans call our “first … Amendment rights.”But truth be told, in the United States, there are actually only 535 men and women who make decisions, with one…

Jul 4, 2012 – The First Amendment of our Constitution protects the individual exercise of religion. … Our First Amendment begins by limiting the scope of governmental authority over religious matters: “Congress shall make no law respecting … Instead, being a government of limited, enumerated powers, the First Amendment creates a space of autonomy wherein religious institutions…

Jul 3, 2012 – “[I]t’s a lot harder to undo something than it is to stop it in the first place,” he said in part.For once, let’s give McConnell the … In February, Mitch McConnell had the option of bringing Jim DeMint’s amendment to the floor of the Senate to force another vote on…

Jul 2, 2012 – Again, this merely kept spending at FY 2012 levels for a program that shouldn’t exist in the first place. … This amendment merely keeps the spending in line with Obama’s budget request!  … The Flake amendment merely prevented the increase in funding from FY 2012 levels! Failed 178-242 [roll call #436]…

Jun 29, 2012 – The Majority In theory, the powers of the federal government should be determined by examining first the Constitution’s text and … The very first power granted to Congress in Article I, Section 8, is the power to tax: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect … Clause, which remain unchanged from their original 1787 text, this aspect of the taxing power has been altered by the Sixteenth Amendment…

Nov 28, 2013 – FIRST: Take scalps. … The two central Second Amendment cases, Heller (holding that the Second Amendment applied to individuals and not just to the states … should be these: – First, a bill to repeal ObamaCare…

Dec 11, 2013 – ECPA isn’t a substitute for stopping blanket NSA surveillance, but it can actually happen this Congress — and it it would be the first … as it does to files on your computer, but an activist Supreme Court in the 1960s mucked up the law by holding that the Fourth Amendment … It may seem unfair that this is the first step in the surveillance battle.…

Dec 10, 2013 – The 13th Amendment won’t allow us to enslave someone who literally refuses to raise a hand to his own betterment. … Schumpeter’s basic insight even further, it’s stating the obvious to assert that there are no companies, and no jobs, without investment first…

Dec 19, 2013 – His reform effort was thwarted by Democrats, who like to fill the “amendment tree” for bills with garbage so that nobody can attach … a serious amendment to bills they are determined to ram through. … We’ll decide whether an illegal alien rapist is to be incarcerated or deported, or maybe first one and then the other, but otherwise…

Dec 19, 2013 – But the House of Representatives passed the legislation first. … would have had to scramble back to Washington to repass the legislation they could have fixed the first time. … So why did they put the cuts in the legislation in the first place?…

Dec 17, 2013 – But he voted for it in committee, and after conservatives almost killed it on the floor, he revived it with his phony amendment, which … But when they need to placate the special interests, they will jump in head first. …

Dec 31, 2013 – also sees the fiscal irresponsibility in D.C. and believes that the appropriators must be restrained by a real Balanced Budget Amendment … We can do these things, but first we need make sure Ken Buck has the funds he needs to win.…

Dec 30, 2013 – Probably the single most important remaining constituency of the Republican “ground game” is the Second Amendment community. … So the message to gun owners is this: A vote for anyone with a “D” after their name is a vote to repeal the Second Amendment. … Barack Obama, on the other hand, came out of the shutdown with Americans realizing, for the first time, that he was not a nice person…

Jun 16, 2011 – To that end, the RSC is offering an amendment today which would cut an additional $1.8 billion from the USDA. … It’s the brand-new Proposition 26, a constitutional amendment passed in November, that the tax violates. … And no, Proposition 25, another constitutional amendment also passed in November, doesn’t change that fact.…

Jun 15, 2011 – Yesterday, Gregg wrote an Op Ed for The Hill where he thrashed the Balanced Budget Amendment “to dodge debt-ceiling action.”  … Gregg falsely implies that the demand of conservatives is to get the constitutional amendment ratified by 37 states. … First, one has to remember the record of Judd Gregg to judge his motivation to trash a Balanced Budget Amendment that is supported…

Jun 14, 2011 – could come anytime, so they have turned their organizing skills toward a counteroffensive, decrying the inquiry as a threat to their First … Amendment rights.…

Jun 14, 2011 – ” to a “first-to-file” system. … Most of the rest of the world now uses a “first-to-file” system that rewards whoever submits their patent application first, regardless … for something the inventor invented first.…

Jun 13, 2011 – We’ve Key Voted a “Yes” vote to Senator Coburn’s Amendment to kill Ethanol Subsidies. … We have an opportunity to strike deep into the heart of Big Ethanol – Senator Coburn’s Amendment repeals not only the tax credit, but … Senator Coburn’s Amendment is #436 to S. 782 and will most likely be voted on tomorrow. He needs 60 votes for cloture.…

Jun 29, 2011 – In the first battle of the Texas Revolution that eventually led to our independence, 140 brave Texians stood their ground against tyranny … This is why I signed the Cut, Cap & Balance pledge because I believe a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S.…

Jun 29, 2011 – First off this morning, I hope you will call Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) today at (202) 224-5323 and tell him thank you for standing … You should stop dragging your feet hoping to get the votes for the Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment or the Walsh version…

Jun 29, 2011 – If At First You Don’t Succeed 2. The Immigration Policy of Absurdistan: Legal is Illegal; Illegal is Legal 3. … If At First You Don’t Succeed First off this morning, I hope you will call Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) today at (202) 224-5323 and … You should stop dragging your feet hoping to get the votes for the Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment or the Walsh version…