Apr 16, 2012 – Well, the manager’s amendment appears to have vitiated that agreement. … The amazing thing is that 22 Republicans actually voted for this boondoggle, probably without ever reading the manager’s amendment … We need to put our best proposal on the table first. …

Apr 11, 2012 – They don’t completely surrender their first amendment rights.Stein has gone beyond that though and does not seem to think he has any…

Apr 26, 2012 – First, House Republicans were denied the opportunity to vote on all 12 appropriations bills individually.  … last year’s insanity, Tom McClintock has drafted a letter to House leadership requesting adherence to their promise of an open amendment … Yesterday, Congressman Jeff Flake offered an amendment to cut another $95 billion in spending, and let’s just say that the results…

Apr 25, 2012 – During the First World War, Woodrow Wilson and the progressive movement used war as a means to rally society to the collective good … George Perkins, a financier of progressive causes at the time, boasted that the First World War “is striking down individualism and … In the second decade of the twenty-first century, progressive activists are engaging in a similar pattern of intimidation and violence…

Apr 24, 2012 – First, the bill would rebate $11.1 billion in “overpayments” to the Treasury.  The problem is that these are not overpayments. … Later on, Senator McCain proposed a substitute amendment (S. 1625), which would create a new postal oversight board (similar to BRAC … its own merits or becomes a private entity – free of government regulations, but also free of its government-sponsored monopoly on first…

Jan 10, 2014 – First, it just recently came out that Senator Mark Udall’s office tried to strong-arm Colorado’s Division of Insurance back in November … Amendment has Always give cover to Democrats written in invisible ink. … To which I say: you first, sir.…

Jan 8, 2014 – Why not wait until Republicans control the White House, and we can trust the president to faithfully execute the enforcement first, … And thanks to Harry Reid’s new precedent, that would include control over the amendment process. …

Jan 15, 2014 – There is certainly no open amendment process.  … Now they are using the omnibus to reinstate that funding, forcing members who never backed the deal in the first place to vote for…

Jan 23, 2014 – They want to get items that are likely to be ordered into the networks of their package carriers, down to the local hub or first three … It’s time to repeal the 26th amendment. Kids today, sheesh.…

Feb 19, 2014 – my general rule of thumb that the average gun-control activist is about twenty or so IQ points dumber than the average Second Amendment … This November will be the first election after the law was passed; neither party’s legislators are particularly eager to have this … And there’s some argument that they are stupid, alas; after all, Connecticut passed this law in the first place.…

Feb 19, 2014 – First the social liberals pushed their agenda in blue states through the court system.  … Then, with the help of Justice Anthony Kennedy, they forced the federal government to recognize gay “marriage” at first for exclusively … The House should vote on them, and Senate Republicans should force amendment votes tacked onto other bills in an effort to expose Democrats…

Feb 11, 2014 – After the bill was first introduced, conservatives carpet bombed the 1,000-page monstrosity on numerous fronts.  … McConnell and Cornyn pushed the first trial balloon of strengthened triggers.  … They were predictably shot down, but gave rise to the final ‘goldilocks’ plan – the Corker-Hoeven amendment – which was sold as a grand…

Feb 28, 2014 – In December of 1865, the several American states ratified the thirteenth amendment constitutionally ending involuntary servitude in … In the twenty-first century, Americans are coming full circle.…

Feb 20, 2014 – This will require a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.  … The 10th Amendment is important and principles of autonomy and local problem solving like subsidiarity and sphere sovereignty which … the 10th Amendment is designed to help protect are even more important. 10)                 Standing for a Strong America. …

Mar 3, 2014 – It’s an unbelievably conflated view of the First Amendment. In legalese, this is called a heckler’s veto.  … And with it, they have expelled the First Amendment.…

Mar 21, 2014 – their concern that I’ve swallowed the line of the gun control advocates — that I’ve left the reservation, if you will… Simpson, who first … He opposed a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Idaho, is bad on guns, once said he has “a tendency to lean toward … I just donated $25 to Bryan Smith — the actual pro-second amendment conservative in Idaho who has a better record on guns than Mike…

Mar 18, 2014 – Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) was the first to pioneer this strategy in 2012.  … In an act of desperation, he went up on broadcast television with an ad that touts his support for a balanced budget amendment, spending … It continues: “Ellmers voted for a Balanced Budget Amendment to cut the debt and stop the wasteful spending in Washington.…

Mar 26, 2014 – Charles Boustany is definitely among the first in line. … But this past February was not the first time Boustany carried water for leadership.  … Boustany offered an amendment that would have removed Egypt’s accountability for Hamas’ arms smuggling into Gaza (roll call #535, 6…

Mar 26, 2014 – the leftwing Talking Points Memo, has seemingly failed to grasp that the issue at stake in the Hobby Lobby case is not about the First … Amendment per se, but about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. … Undoubtedly, a corporation with a First Amendment right to speech has one related to free exercise of religion.…

Apr 4, 2014 – the Illinois Supreme Court ruled a law passed in Illinois which effectively banned carrying a loaded weapon violated the Second Amendment … When new crime statistics were released covering the first quarter of 2014 an amazing thing happened Chicago’s first-quarter murder … The first three months of the year saw 6 fewer murders than the same time frame in 2013–a 9 percent drop–and 55 fewer murders than…

Apr 4, 2014 – Less noticed was the direct assault on the First Amendment by the four justices who made up the minority in this case. … And here’s how Breyer sums it all up: “Accordingly, the First Amendment advances not only the individual’s right to engage in political … In Breyer’s view, the purpose of the First Amendment is to see that (in Chief Justice Hughes’s words) “the will of the people” is done…

Apr 3, 2014 – Congressman Tom Petri (R) hails from Wisconsin’s 6th Congressional District, and since his first few re-election campaigns he’s had … In 2009, Petri voted on the House Education and Labor Committee to approve an amendment offered by Rep. … Democrats in the House later removed the amendment from the Affordable Care Act when it got to the floor.…

Apr 2, 2014 – Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced an amendment that would have allowed states to opt-out of ObamaCare if they established their own … Democrats in the House eventually stripped the Petri-Kucinich amendment from the final version of the Affordable Care Act. … Petri explained that he cast his vote after “we had an amendment in our committee by Dennis Kucinich.”…

Apr 2, 2014 – down limits on campaign speech and the Supreme Court’s decision previously upholding those limits, which he says “denigrates core First … Amendment speech and should be overruled.”…

Apr 18, 2014 –   Nine years ago the US Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by noted Second Amendment authority John Paul Stevens, eviscerated … the “takings” clause of the Fifth Amendment. … another plan in the works for Fort Trumbull, as the city’s coffers remain empty thanks to a missing tax base, this time “a national first​—​a…