Quoting John Kline (R-MN-02) : It’s time to press the ‘reset’ button. This issue is far too important to be determined by partisan battles. There are solid, commonsense ideas members of all political stripes can coalesce around as we seek to stop unnecessary political bickering and formulate a solution that puts the American people ahead [...]
Of course, “When Did John Boehner Quit Beating His Wife” is a loaded question that presupposes that John Boehner may have beaten his wife prior to the question being asked. So, let’s ask another where there is a “prior history”. When Did John Boehner Quit Flying First Class ? Posted at 05:30 PM ET, 01/04/2013 [...]
Times have changed since Will Rogers famously said, “We have the best Congress money can buy.” … back then, the unions supported one political party and corporations the other … now, not only are those groups joined by SuperPACs, but politicians actually have their own fundraising entities — “Leadership PACs” are the fastest-growing segment of [...]
Politicians regularly offer “free” advice of areas of federal spending that they deem wasteful, but let’s be honest “Talk” is cheap … yet, it is the “cost” to print that makes “talk” expensive. Listen to the advice and concerns expressed by Rob Woodall (R-GA-07) on the sequester that the cuts didn’t go down the way [...]
The Tweets versus Reality January 30, 2012 – The Honorable Chip Cravaack tweeted : The House will vote Wednesday on a bill to freeze the salaries of federal employees, lawmakers and congressional staffers. February 2, 2012 – The Honorable Chip Cravaack tweeted : I voted last night to freeze federal worker and lawmakers’ pay. As [...]
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Reading the Jim Ramstad and Al Franken OpEd Improving Care for Mental Illness illustrates that party politics should not prohibit addressing healthcare. The OpEd points to specific legislation — for example, in the House H.R.401 – the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act of 2013 has strong support (across political parties as well as geographically [...]
“The trouble with sequestration is that there is no ability to set priorities. They just cut and so you can have very, very good programs that take a cut and a poor program that is executing poorly right next to it takes the same cut. We would rather have the ability to adjust those.” – [...]
Gauging by the lawn signs, the Definition of Marriage Amendment question has made that old adage of never discussing politics and religion in polite conversation, a principle of a gonebydays. The Amendment question was authorized in a very close vote with four Republicans voting against it … including John Kriesel whose floor speech is now [...]
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, defined the strategy for the Farm Bill would be not to pass the five-year legislation that was approved in a bi-partisan basis in the House Agriculture Committee and to have the Congress to agree on a short-term extension … and to “Wait for the [...]
Iowa prides itself in being the first state to weigh in on nominating candidates for President. The 2012 Republican caucuses thought they had picked the next president when it announced that Mitt Romney had won only to have to retract it later in favor of Rick Santorum. Well … it was close … so surely [...]
MN Blue Blogs: Ten articles from Minnesota blogs
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Union News: 10 articles from national union blogs
