The right wing politicos and their supporters like to whinge on and on and on, beating the drum of personal accountability. My observation is that you almost never, ever see any actual taking of responsibility by the right for the results of their policies or what they do legislatively. We see this in the failure [...]
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QUERY : Why did Richard Hanna (R-NY-22) vote Against John Kline’s pet legislation ? John Kline (R-MN-02) has made a big deal out of H. R. 1406 Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 … as illustrated in his OpEd, his assessment is simple — working families need flexibility to “caring for each other during difficult [...]
John Kline wanted to let all his FACEBOOK friends know not to miss the 2013 Taxpayers Rally held this past Saturday: The theme was to protest high taxes, economic freedom, the freedom to keep and bear arms, and the freedom to choose to join a union or not … with featured speakers Grover Norquist, Representative [...]
It’s the Week of the Young Child, a celebration sponsored by the NAEYC to focus public attention on the needs of young children and early childhood education. Minnesota happens to be the home of the chair of the Education and the Workforce Committee, Congressman John Kline. One would think things would go well for education in our [...]
John Kline is silent no more … sorta Kline Statement on Upper Big Branch Anniversary WASHINGTON, D.C. | April 5, 2013 – U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today released the following statement on the third anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mining disaster: A reckless mine operator and [...]
Have you seen the television commercial alerting voters in Minnesota Eight District of Raymond Cravaack’s votes on education issues ? Voiceover: In Minnesota, we have a tradition of valuing education. That’s why Chip Cravaack’s priorities are so wrong. Cravaack voted to cut Pell Grants for 23,000 Minnesota college students. He voted to cut overall education [...]
We will take bold steps to ensure our system welcomes and rewards the best teachers. As president, I will make it my goal to ensure that every classroom has a quality teacher. There are currently 82 programs in ten agencies that spend $4 billion on teacher quality. As president, I will consolidate these programs, and [...]
The Wall Street Journal headline says it all : Private Jobs Turn Positive for Obama Presidency Private-sector Jobs With the latest report, total private payrolls are now higher than they were in January 2009. The latest count put private-sector jobs at about 111 million in April (reported as 111.02 million), or 35,000 jobs more than [...]
State Representative Tony Cornish (R-HD-24B) has a concern about the Minnesota Constitution, “Currently there is nothing in the constitution that guarantees anything about gun rights. You have to go to the federal level. We want something more up to date.” Representative Cornish explained that when there’s a gun rights dispute, it generally ends up in [...]
The television screens are in constant replay of Speaker John Boehner calling for the Democrats to return to Washington and address the payroll tax issue … well, that was commercial television … instead if you tuned into CSPAN this morning, you saw the Opening Gavel of a new legislative day precisely at 10:00:46, a morning [...]
MN Blue Blogs: Ten articles from Minnesota blogs
Graphic artist and blogger Mario Piperni, that's who. Amazing graphics, great stories.
What’s Happening in Congress, Rick Nolan Union News: 10 articles from national union blogs
