Oct 11, 2010 – As it turns out, though, save the 2nd Amendment, the NRA no longer seems to care about the rest of the Bill of Rights at all. … Here’s a case in point: Tim Walz, a member of the Democratic Farm-Labor Party, is finishing his second term as a Congressman … Perhaps the GOA is looking at the other nine Amendments to the Constitution and realizes that a politician who is good on one Amendment…

Oct 11, 2010 – Second, the “foreign-owned” corporations (like Toyota, Nissan, BMW) are doing a better job at creating jobs in America than their unionized … the creation of an ‘account’ in this new scheme would suffice the eminent domain and just compensation provisions of the Fifth Amendment…

Oct 21, 2010 – debate, leftist pundits, including Larry King, trounced on her because she questioned Coon’s statement about whether the First Amendment … The First Amendment requires a number of things that are ignored, separation of church and state is not one of them.  … This is what the First Amendment was designed to prohibit. …

Oct 20, 2010 – someone tries to prevent juvenile harassment and bullying of gays (I agree with Andrew Wilcow that gay people should exercise their second … amendment right more frequently when faced with physical bullying and intimidation). … Most people visiting sites on the internet want to immediately jump up and down and scream about their “First Amendment!”…

Nov 2, 2010 – My second question to Christine had to do with the recent CNN debate between her and Chris Coons. … There are five freedoms guaranteed in the first amendment, and that my opponent can’t name any of them should send shivers up the voter…

Nov 11, 2010 – Two people are up for the chair: current Ranking Member Joe Barton (TX-06); and second-in-seniority Fred Upton(MI-06). … What it said to Republicans was: You have been given a second chance. Probably a last chance. … Dave Camp’s substitute amendment to the $787 billion Obama-Pelosi economic stimulus bill in March 2009.…

Nov 17, 2010 – A victory for conservatives — Hold on a second.  … First is the fact that Senator Jim DeMint’s (R-SC) Amendment to the Senate Republican Conference rules is tough to enforce.   … Senator Reid has indicated that he will use procedural maneuvers to block Senator Coburn from offering the amendment.…

Dec 6, 2010 – opportunity to change the Senate rules to create a multitude of points of order against legislation that infringes on the 2nd Amendment … The first idea that should be deployed by conservatives is to force a vote on the below new rule to protect the Second Amendment rights … Second Amendment Point of Order. …

Dec 5, 2010 – We know that they dare not be on the Senate and House floor during a reading of the Second Amendment.  … No self respected gun hater would be caught dead listening to other Members of Congress reading the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution…

Dec 2, 2010 – The leadership brooked no second-guessing of Democrats’ electoral strategy, either, declaring that the message was good and only the … Should supporters of First Amendment rights turn in their library cards? Nonsense.…

Dec 14, 2010 – Today, the Senate resumes debate of the tax compromise bill as an amendment to H.R.4853.  … This change would scuttle the compromise and the Senate would have a hard time passing this bill a second time.…

Dec 13, 2010 – We’ll concede your point that the history should be dispositive on the issue of handguns and the Second Amendment, if you’ll concede … point that absolutely no one will seriously suggest that the founding fathers had abortion in mind when they wrote the Fourth Amendment … Amendment.…

Dec 21, 2010 – Here in Colorado, voters defeated a personhood amendment for a second time on a lopsided margin.   … The 2010 elections saw a 7 percent national Republican shift from 2008, but the amendment only gained 2.7 percent. … The second defeat of the amendment came also came at a price for the pro-life movement and for conservatives and Republicans in general…

Jan 5, 2011 – Second, they claim that the rules don’t apply for the period of time that the Senate has not operated under the rules.  … Extended debate and unlimited amendment is part of the fabric of the institution.…

Jan 4, 2011 – democratic right of workers to freely and collectively choose if they want to form their UAW local union is the workers’ First Amendment … Second, while the UAW states that employees have the right to vote on an agreement, the union then goes on to state that any disagreements…

Jul 29, 2011 – — an amendment House Republicans said could not pass so there was no reason to pursue Cut, Cap, and Balance. … Because if they do not, I have a sneaking suspicion that Harry Reid will strip out the balanced budget amendment language and the second … A balanced budget amendment is worth fighting for. A balanced budget amendment is worth holding the line for.…

Jul 29, 2011 – Boehner’s plan couldn’t get the votes last night so Boehner had to agree to add language conditioning a vote on a balanced budget amendment … — an amendment House Republicans said could not pass so there was no reason to pursue Cut, Cap, and Balance. … Because if they do not, I have a sneaking suspicion that Harry Reid will strip out the balanced budget amendment language and the second…

Jul 27, 2011 – increases (or, for that matter, gun control, taxpayer-funded abortion, forced unionism, or federalized same-sex marriage) in the second … And a guarantee of a losing vote on a balanced budget constitutional amendment doesn’t get you anywhere.…

Jul 26, 2011 – increases (or, for that matter, gun control, taxpayer-funded abortion, forced unionism, or federalized same-sex marriage) in the second … And a guarantee of a losing vote on a balanced budget constitutional amendment doesn’t get you anywhere. … the House, the filibuster may be the only tool available to prevent a gigantic unfilibusterable, unamendable tax increase or a second…

Jul 25, 2011 – Finally, it would call for a vote on a balanced budget amendment by the end of the year, as a precondition for raising the debt ceiling … Under CCB, the passage of a balanced budget amendment is a pre-condition to raising the debt limit.  … The second tier of the plan, the 18th debt commission, is the most problematic. …

Aug 4, 2011 – And the second they realized that we’re going to raise taxes on the people who create jobs. … district, but without earmarks they had to pass the bill on its merit and it wouldn’t pass until they added a balanced budget amendment…

Jul 31, 2011 – Repealing the mechanism and raising the debt limit for a second tranche without any deficit reduction. … LIE #3: BOEHNER 7.0 WILL PROMISE “ACTION ON [OUR] BELOVED [SIC] BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT” There will be two loopholes: The mandate … will apparently be ambiguous about the version of the balanced budget amendment to be considered –- leaving open a proposal allowing…

Jul 31, 2011 – All but 22 members, including many stalwart conservatives, supported the bill because they were promised that the second installment … 1) A debt commission identifies at least $1.6 trillion in spending cuts.  2)  Congress (both houses) passes a balanced budget amendment … negotiations: Debt ceiling increase of up to $2.8 trillion Spending cuts of roughly $1 trillion Vote on the Balanced Budget Amendment…

Aug 25, 2011 – Action score the final debt deal, they even scored a no vote on the preliminary Boehner deal, which contained a Balanced Budget Amendment … as a pre-condition for the second tranche of the debt limit increase (but not for the first $1 trillion increase, in violation of … Second, many of the House votes stem from the debt deal, the FY 2011 continuing resolution, and amendments to appropriations bills.…

Aug 24, 2011 – Washington”: Rick Perry’s campaign is now distancing him from another controversial claim in his book: That we should repeal the 16th Amendment … I myself have argued that, whatever its original merits, it would be a terrible idea to try to get rid of the 17th Amendment. … Another option would be to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution (providing the power for the income tax) altogether,…