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 SecondAmendment rights … SecondAmendment Point of Order. …
We know that they dare not be on the Senate and House floor during a reading of the SecondAmendment. … No self respected gun hater would be caught dead listening to other Members of Congress reading the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution…
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.…
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.…
We’ll concede your point that the history should be dispositive on the issue of handguns and the SecondAmendment, 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.…
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…
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.…
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…
— 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.…
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…
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.…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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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,…
He’s the longest-serving Governor in the history of the nation’s second-largest state, a state with a long and disputatious foreign … But Perry doesn’t exactly fit the second (I tend to like candidates who are, like me, either lawyers or otherwise talkers, fast on … Even some of his more eccentric-sounding ideas, like his criticism of the Sixteenth Amendment, are grounded in his experience balancing…
That morning I awoke to see the second aircraft impact the South Tower of the World Trade Center. … On September 6, 2002, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to allow airline pilots to carry guns on an amendment to the legislation that…
voted to remove former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 GOP presidential primary ballot using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment … insurrection by inflaming his supporters with false claims of election fraud and directing them to the Capitol — preventing him from a second … The entire effort to use the 14th Amendment to keep Trump off the ballot in multiple states is nothing more than a politically motivated…
His tweet is long, but he argues that the 14th Amendment should not apply here because "it was passed to prohibit former Confederate … He also makes a legal argument that Section 3 of the Amendment should not apply to the former president: And there’s another legal … Ramaswamy is an extreme long-shot to win the GOP nomination, at least according to the polls, but this is the second time he's been…
Donald Trump should be removed from the state’s presidential primary ballot for the 2024 election based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment … Last year, Democrats began floating the idea of using the 14th Amendment to influence the outcome of the upcoming election by removing … In other states, similar efforts to remove Trump using the 14th Amendment have been shot down.…
I am guided by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. … I'm not even sure that Satanism qualifies as a religion under the First Amendment. … There is no binding precedent stating that anti-blasphemy laws violate the First Amendment.…
the Bruen decision is the Court’s insistence that any gun control law must be consistent with the historical understanding of the Second … Amendment. … However, the outcome of this case will not only impact SecondAmendment rights in Illinois, but could also set a precedent for other…
