“You know, I couldn’t be more proud of my kids, but there’s nothing easy about paying for college. It’s why I’ll never understand those guys in Washington, like Congressman Kline. Kline’s trying to pass a law that could more than double the interest rate on college loans. Kline calls it a ‘smarter solution.’ Must be [...]
John Kline (R-MN-02) rarely issues statements explaining his votes as most of the time, Mr. Kline is simply following Party leader orders. But there are some issues where the party does not vote in lockstep … and that’s when voters can really see the “real John Kline”. Disaster relief funding has become controversial. In the [...]
Like having to pay for the clean up of Walmarts illegally dumping toxic waste, where tax payers involuntarily subsidize the profits of the Walton family, we are having to pay to make up the difference between a fair and significantly higher wage, and for the Walmart unfair, discriminatory and illegal labor practices, with the Walton [...]
Last week, we had not one, but two bridge failures; one in Washington state (right), the other in Missouri (below right). The week before that, we had a massive train crash due apparently to a cracked rail. One might say, those were not bridges too far, but that didn’t go far enough. In other words, [...]
It’s high school graduation season and a lot of parents will be talking about Chairman John Kline (R-MN-02) this weekend … families will gather and encourage the graduate to pursue higher education … yet there will be costs … for tuition, fees, books, room and board, and other school charges … and for many parents [...]
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 [...]
The 112th Congress is getting an early challenge to its “Do-Nothing” label by the current 113th version … or should this current Congress be called the “Nothing’s Changed” Congress ? Take John Kline, the Chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee, who has left reforming No Child Left Behind for over two years and now [...]
We have water problems; we have problems with long term drought, and we have problems with short term flooding. Flooding is the result of the too-rapid melting of our snow-pack, which does damage and which we then lose as run-off instead of replenishing our ground water. The MN GOP members of the legislature are whining [...]
Willie Sutton : “I rob banks because that’s where the money is.” This week is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week with the theme “New Challenges, New Solutions” — and also the perfect week for the House to enact H.R.1637 — Crime Victims Fund Preservation Act before “someone” robs the money. First a little background, the [...]
BREAKING NEWS : Erik Paulsen honored with The Chamber of Commerce’s prestigious “Spirit of Enterprise” award which is given annually to members of Congress based on rankings it gives for key business votes Erik Paulsen (R-MN-03) had another solid fundraising quarter tallying $359,734 resulting a nice $941,340 balance in his campaign war chest. While it [...]
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