S. Amdt. 2774 Tabled

Passing S. Amdt. 2774 would have eliminated the possibility that funds made available through H.R. 3082 (Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2010) could be used to build or modify a facility within the United States or its territories to temporarily or permanently hold those individuals held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as of October [...]

Update on David Hamilton Vote

Update: David F. Hamilton Confirmed to Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Before posting the results for the Hamilton confirmation, let's attempt to understand how this judge was confirmed by the senate with only a simple majority. Only yesterday we discovered that once the cloture motion successfully passed with full majority support, only a simple majority was [...]

Judge David Hamilton Senate Vote Scheduled

Obama Nominated Anti-Jesus, Pro-Abortion Judge to 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
We've already witnessed a number of controversial Czar appointments, and it appears the president is attempting to infiltrate our courts with far-left liberal activist judges as well. Keep in mind that since some judicial appointments are for life, an extensive vetting process for all nominees [...]

American Jobs Taken by Guestworkers

Unemployed Americans Face Unequal Opportunity
The Center for Immigration Studies predicts a grim future for unemployed Americans. In an article titled Worse Than It Seems, the CIS reports overall unemployment for native-born Americans at 9.7 percent as of June 2009, which is 12.7 million unemployed native-born Americans. That number continues to rise as the most recent [...]

Transparency Means We Get to Read the Final Bill BEFORE the Vote; Right?

Still Waiting on Those Promises of Transparency

One of the many broken promises made by Obama during the '08 campaign was that his administration would be the most transparent in history. That sentiment became hugely popular among voters and was immediately echoed by other congressional Democrats, including House Speaker Pelosi, who vowed to end the "culture [...]

How Progressives Will Steal Votes with 2010 Census

2010 Census Won't Question Legal Status

Once every 10 years the federal government conducts a census, as mandated under Article 1 Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. The express purpose of a decennial census is to apportion seats in the House of Representatives, as well as determine each state's assigned number of electoral college votes. With [...]

Democrats Insist on Healthcare Nuclear Option

Rangel Submits Nuclear Option Letter
On Thursday, October 15th, the majority of Democrats in the House Ways and Means Committee, under the leadership of Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel, chose to disregard all amendments to H.R. 3200 being offered by Republicans. Rather than continuing debate, Rep. Rangel instead submitted a letter to the Budget Committee that has [...]

Baucus Bill Passes

Interested parties from both sides of the health care debate have eagerly anticipated today’s vote by members of the Senate Finance Committee on the Baucus bill.  Democrats outnumber Republicans in the Finance Committee 13-10, so a favorable Democratic outcome was all but certain. It was expected that today’s vote would be divided strictly upon party [...]

Death Tax: Do Not Resuscitate

Obama To Reverse Expiring Death Tax 

One of the most controversial and perhaps destructive of all taxes imposed on Americans is the "death tax," whereby the government reaches one last time into the people's wallets. At death, a person's residual wealth, accumulated over a lifetime and already subjected to numerous tiers of taxation, becomes the [...]

Barthold Letter on Insurance Mandate

 Buy Health Insurance or Else

On Thursday, Senator John Ensign (R-KS), questioned Thomas Barthold, Chief of Staff of Joint Committee on Taxation, about the proposed health care mandate penalty. Ensign stated, "We could be subjecting those very people who conscientiously, because they believe in the U.S. Constitution, we could be subjecting them to fines or the interpretation of [...]

Next Page »