be increased that led to the Cut, Cap, Balance Pledge — force real and sizable cuts, cap spending, and pass a Balanced Budget Amendment … Now is the time for conservatives to up the ante and pledge scorched earth on Republicans who raise the debt ceiling without first … cutting spending significantly, imposing enforceable caps on spending, and passing the Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment a…
The Supreme Court threw out California’s video game censorship for the children, ruling in Brown v EMA that it violated the FirstAmendment … I love video games, but I agree with Justice Thomas who with Justice Breyer dissented, putting the rights of parents first, and showing…
So here’s a better idea:
First, Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey needs to get repeated votes on his bill to require that interest … The nominations bill, S. 679, currently pending in the Senate, has a big hidden amendment to ObamaCare in it. … They rose, in many cases, close to double digits in the first year.…
terrible crisis, then the best option should be to do nothing — either extract major cuts, cap spending, and get a balanced budget amendment … Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the nation’s stockpile supposedly set aside for emergency supply disruptions.Upon hearing the news, my first…
candidate for Congress — incumbent or challenger — who does not sign a pledge promising not to vote for a debt limit increase without first … passing a balanced budget amendment, making deep spending cuts and putting strict limits on future government spending. … primary Republicans who raise the debt ceiling without extracting serious concessions to include passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment…
and Ben Domenech are joined by Mario Loyola to discuss the court challenge of Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid, how the Tenth Amendment … So, the individual mandate is there to solve a problem that’s created by Federal regulation in the first place. … How much the 10th Amendment is not just an abstract principal. The 10th amendment was meant to protect self-government.…
The bill changes American patent law into European patent law by granting patents to those who file first – giving big corporations … This violates the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution and constitutes a “takings” without just compensation. …
And even more pointed questions about why conducting what has been categorized as being a stealth political attack on Second Amendment … Feel free to first respond by saying “So… guns don’t kill people: people kill people, right?”…
If any Republican dares to raise the debt ceiling without first ensuring (1) cuts in the budget; (2) caps in spending; and (3) the … Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment makes it out to the states, conservatives must agree to at least attempt to find someone … There must be scorched earth against any who vote to raise the debt ceiling without cutting, capping, and balancing first.…
met: (1) substantial cuts in spending; (2) enforceable spending caps; and (3) passage of the Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment … Here’s the Erick Erickson Pledge:
I pledge that if any Republican votes to increase the debt ceiling without first cutting, capping … debt ceiling without forcing (1) substantial cuts; (2) enforceable caps; and (3) sending the Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment…
met: (1) substantial cuts in spending; (2) enforceable spending caps; and (3) passage of the Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment … If the union won, it would have been the first-ever unionized Target in the nation.…
Then, there will be no excuses for opposing a Balanced Budget Amendment. … selected individuals, industries, or social engineering endeavors – and those “credits” granted to people who have no tax debit in the first … problem, we can proceed to the real deficit reduction mechanisms; free market entitlement program reforms and a Balanced Budget Amendment…
Some, however, are arguing that a Balanced Budget Amendment will never pass, so why bother? … In reality, Republicans won’t get a two-thirds vote in either House when they first bring the Balanced Budget Amendment to the floor … If they do, they will have their way and get a Balanced Budget Amendment.…
But when looking to endorse candidates, those who express a willingness to support someone else first will certainly be given more … McConnell sat by idly as sponsors of the bill played “let’s make a deal” — offering amendment after amendment to buy off opponents … to the Incumbent Protection Act a/k/a the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act to take away the free speech rights of Second Amendment…
As I first out of the gate and drew the most ire from McConnell supporters, I think it is safe to conclude they are unhappy with me … The GOP should do the same — show an absolute unwillingness to raise the debt ceiling without their balanced budget amendment passing…
Leadership has committed to an open amendment process, and many have even intimated that they will support it. … It will be interesting to see if the amendment passes. At this point, I am skeptical that it will. … If proponents are not confident that the amendment passes, then an amendment strategy should be the last resort, and the full slate…
The first witness on the agenda, however, is Dr. Thomas J. … DiLorenzo publishes frequently on lewrockwell.com and doesn’t have much use for the fourteenth amendment.…
In the first place, Melissa’s post studiously ignored one of the chief reasons that many conservatives have voluntarily chosen not … considered to be a proper function of government in both Western and American tradition – long has the Supreme Court been clear that the First … Amendment offers no protection to obscenity.…
The Rehberg Amendment would do the following according to the House Republican Study Committee:
This amendment would insert a new … The Rehberg Amendment is phase one and the first skirmish in the effort to chip away, with the ultimate goal of full repeal, of ObamaCare … on the language contained in the Rehberg Amendment. …
They have an amendment to the Continuing Resolution (CR) in the House to cut billions more in spending. … The RSC Amendment would keep the Republican Pledge to America and cut a full $100 billion in non-security discretionary spending with … Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) to restore $510 million for Homeland Security grants for first responders.…
who have been on the receiving end of that particular brand of attention unions reserve for anyone bright enough to understand the First … Amendment, and unwise enough to actually apply it, should accordingly take solace that it isn’t personal.…
Of course, the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment would be quite surprised to learn that they had made same-sex marriage a constitutional … that only the judicial branch—particularly the Supreme Court—has the authority to determine the appropriate level of Fourteenth Amendment … This is not the first time that President Obama has shown he is willing to do an end run around the other branches of government in…
, including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, joined all of the Democrats to defeat an amendment … the GOP lived up to its “$100 billion in cuts” pledge.This was a failure of leadership, particularly by Eric Cantor.Blackburn’s amendment … Confusing the two to give conservative bona fides where none are deserved got us into this mess in the first place.…
.”~ Ronald Reagan, from his first inaugural speech as governor of California, January 5, 1967
Last November, Republicans were … Last week’s fiasco with Steve King’s repeal amendment only affirms the allegation. … For the first time ever, we enjoy an overwhelming majority of support to ‘go for the big plays’.…
Act with respect to any fiscal year may be used to carry out the provisions of Public Law 111-148, Public Law 111-152, or any amendment … From the moment legislation to repeal ObamaCare was first introduced, it has been widely discussed that a successful repeal strategy … would center on first winning a Republican majority in the House, then holding a clean, up or down vote on repeal, and then prohibiting…
