Jun 19, 2013 – The so-called Cornyn amendment, though touted by some as a “poison pill” to the Gang of 8’s S. 744, is little more than a fig leaf … Cornyn’s amendment requires “situational awareness” (meaning having surveillance in place) and a 90% “apprehension rate.” … The Cornyn amendment makes no changes whatsoever to the Gang of 8’s plan with regard to fencing.…

Jun 17, 2013 – His amendment to the Parental Consent Act warned that psychiatrists might “label a person’s disagreement with the psychiatrist’s political … One amendment would have nullified the congressional authorization to invade Iraq; another sought “to end mailbox use monopoly.” … positions; a good percentage would be for two; and that a measurable proportion would be willing to back the trifecta if they got the first…

Jun 14, 2013 – Marco Rubio told Sean Hannity yesterday that he had wanted border security before amnesty, but now thinks we need amnesty first … On top of that, Peter King and Lindsey Graham want to amend the First Amendment to silence dissent and Republicans in Congress have…

Jun 13, 2013 – If these people really want amnesty, they would implement the laws on the books first and demonstrate that the circuitous cycle of … Yet, they made it clear that enforcement-first is a dealbreaker.  … No border security amendment that is being proposed (after amnesty is granted) is more definitive and more specific than the 2006 Secure…

Jun 11, 2013 – Nathan Sommers until the military first files a report for Congress to review. … The amendment would also allow service members to sue in the event their First Amendment rights are violated. … Huelskamp said the legislation will “unblock the courthouse door so that service members whose First Amendment rights have been violated…

Jun 11, 2013 – By the way, and for the record: IRS Agent Sherry Wan is full of… is incorrect in her understanding of the First Amendment to the Constitution … Again: the federal government officially agrees with me on this, so complain to them first.…

Jun 10, 2013 – affirmative vote for the Patriot Act and claimed he’s “glad” that the NSA is collecting data on Americans because apparently the Fourth Amendment … What came first, the chicken or the egg? The government’s illegal abuse of power of the whistleblower who rats them out?…

Jun 10, 2013 – Most of the first week will be consumed by opening statements and speeches from individual members.  … Similar to the first point, if Democrats perceive that there is broad support for a legalization-first bill sans the path to citizenship … Marco Rubio has already admitted that any final deal will be predicated on legalization first. …

Jun 27, 2013 – voted to roll back portions of Coloradans Second Amendment rights, Magpul filed suit to fight and pulled up its roots to relocate. … Before Colorado’s anti-Second Amendment laws kick in, Magpul will sell 20 and 30 round standard capacity magazines, in limited supply … at the event, and the first 1500 through the gate will receive a  free Magpul Gen M2 MOE 30 round magazine featuring either the Free…

Jun 27, 2013 – The problem is that he said he would support the final bill if it contained the Cornyn amendment.  … While the Cornyn amendment was better than the current iteration, it granted complete amnesty first with just stronger promises of … Hence, it was also legalization first.  And that is exactly what McConnell supports.…

Jun 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?…

Jun 25, 2013 – An amendment he pushed to include was considered by reform backers as an attempt to kill the legislation, and its defeat gave the process … It’s high time for him to unite the conference behind a bold message of enforcement-first. …

Jun 25, 2013 – Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson wrote to the Federal Aviation Administration as a first step request for drones in St. Louis. … Our Fourth Amendment privacy rights aren’t safe from unreasonable search and seizure when you’re looking at drones.” […] Dotson … departments have are using drones, but they’re not impressing users: The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado was one of the first…

Jun 25, 2013 – First, secure this border. Allow people to work here but only if they’re legal. No amnesty. … On Thursday, he likened the decisive vote to pass his amendment to “having been robbed 12 million times and finally getting around…

Jun 23, 2013 – Reminiscent of Obamacare, the lengthy amendment to replace the Gang of 8’s original bill was crafted behind closed doors and introduced … The first amendment considered by the full Senate in this debate, offered by Senator Grassley, would have required effective control … For example, besides the Grassley Amendment I already noted, Senator Thune offered an amendment to require additional border fencing…

Jun 20, 2013 – King spoke with Jake Tapper: First, there’s no way agencies would have shared information as one of the most glaring mistakes … King’s justification of violating Americans’s Fourth Amendment civil liberties via fear mongering is offensive.…

Jun 20, 2013 – little resistance by our current Republican leadership, we’re living in a soft tyranny where the IRS denies conservatives their First … Amendment rights; the Attorney General runs guns to drug cartels in a scam to erode our Second Amendment rights; and the NSA is doing … knows what with every American’s phone calls, emails, texts, whatever – unless you’re in a Mosque, of course – then your Fourth Amendment…

Jun 20, 2013 – Yet we have nobody to blame but ourselves for electing these liars in the first place. … First, secure this border.  Allow people to work here but only if they’re legal. No amnesty.   … John Hoeven explained the amendment like this: the “whole effort has been to build a bipartisan group that will support the bill.”…

Jun 20, 2013 – According to Politico, this deal would be a watered-down version of Cornyn’s amendment, which Erick already exposed as pathetic: … It is that mentality – a lazy tendency to pick the first candidate with high name recognition months in advance – which has saddled…

Jun 20, 2013 – That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then comes the measures to secure the border. … that would have required completion of the fence,[14] as well as an amendment that would have required implementation of U.S. … VISIT[15] (a biometric border check-in and check-out system first required by Congress in 1996), before legalization.…

Jul 2, 2013 – First, Justice Samuel Alito makes clear the actual constitutional status of marriage laws. … First and foremost, defenders of marriage need to start living out the truth about marriage. … Mike Pence has called on his state to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.…

Oct 7, 2013 – confirmed for the Washington Examiner that the Park Service will allow the event to take place under the group’s rights granted by the First … Amendment. … Menendez were missing in action apparently too busy last week when the World War II vets were fighting for their First Amendment Right…

Oct 1, 2013 – expand eligibility for Medicaid, a move that the Heritage Foundation estimates would cost the state as much as $27 billion in the first … In fact as an early supporter of the states-rights movement, Creighton was the primary architect of the 10th Amendment legislation … The unsung hero of that campaign was Brandon Creighton, the spark for Perry’s 10th Amendment fire that spread the states’ rights message…

Sep 30, 2013 – The first is the Vitter Amendment, named for Senator David Vitter, which would require Congress to adhere to Obamacare like the rest … Pass the Vitter amendment and within a year you’ll see Congress have a full medical station in its basement where congressmen and their … Likewise, the Vitter Amendment fixes something that is only temporary, if the Office of Personnel Management is to be believed.…

Oct 10, 2013 – “I disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend your right to say it” is a common mantra for expressing First Amendment sentiments.   … The government cannot suppress even the most unpopular group’s First Amendment rights.  …