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…
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. …
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.…
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.…
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…
The FirstAmendment of our Constitution protects the individual exercise of religion. … Our FirstAmendment 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 FirstAmendment creates a space of autonomy wherein religious institutions…
“[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…
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]…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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?…
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. …
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
could come anytime, so they have turned their organizing skills toward a counteroffensive, decrying the inquiry as a threat to their First … Amendment rights.…
” 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.…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
