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- Job Tax Plan Lands With a Thud
- House seen blocking healthcare funds
- Congressional Tea Party Caucus Holds Tele Townhall
- 26 Repubs who supported liberty & rejected the Patriot Act: Who are they?
- Two GOP Senate Hopefuls Help Block PATRIOT Act
| Job Tax Plan Lands With a Thud Posted: 09 Feb 2011 07:44 AM PST
Republicans on Capitol Hill responded with hostility Tuesday to a White House proposal to allow cash-strapped states to raise unemployment-insurance taxes. But in some states struggling with rising debt and empty coffers, officials said the plan should be considered. Administration officials say the proposal, to be included in President Barack Obama’s budget plan for the next fiscal year, is intended to help states that so far have borrowed $42.4 billion from the federal government to keep benefits flowing after exhausting the reserves used to pay unemployment benefits. Some of those 31 states have borrowed so heavily, and repaid the loans so slowly, that they triggered automatic tax increases designed to reimburse the federal government. Already, employers in three states—Michigan, Indiana and South Carolina—are paying higher federal unemployment taxes because of state debts to Washington. More than half the states could be hit by the end of the year. To read more, visit: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703313304576132670554242278.html?mod=googlenews_wsj |
| House seen blocking healthcare funds Posted: 09 Feb 2011 07:38 AM PST
The U.S. House of Representatives is likely to vote to block funding for President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare overhaul when it takes up a budget plan next week, House Republican Leader Eric Cantor said on Tuesday. “I expect to see one way or other the product coming out of the House to speak to that and to preclude any funding to be used for that,” Cantor said at a news conference, referring to an effort to block implementation of the health-care law. House Republicans aim to pass a spending measure next week that would immediately cut at least $32 billion from the government’s $3.7 trillion budget in an effort to trim budget deficits that could hit an estimated $1.5 trillion this year. Details of the Republican spending-cut package will be made public on Thursday ahead of a wide-ranging debate on the House floor next week. Cantor’s office said the language blocking funding for the healthcare law is expected to be offered as an amendment during the House debate next week. Republicans, trying to make good on a campaign pledge for a more open legislative process, plan to debate a number of amendments to the spending bill. To read more, visit: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/08/us-usa-congress-healthcare-idUSTRE7175I120110208 |
| Congressional Tea Party Caucus Holds Tele Townhall Posted: 09 Feb 2011 07:30 AM PST By Tony Lee, Human Events
Those who spoke at the event — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), Rep Michele Bachmann (R-Minn), and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) — reiterated Kremer's point throughout the evening. Paul, who started the Tea Party caucus in the Senate (three Senators — Paul, Lee, and Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) — are members), said that critics of the Tea Party movement said that Tea Party backed candidates would be co-opted once they got to Washington. To read more, visit: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41671 |
| 26 Repubs who supported liberty & rejected the Patriot Act: Who are they? Posted: 09 Feb 2011 07:14 AM PST
Out of the 26 Republican Congressmen who voted no on the Patriot Act, eight of them are Repblicans who voted no on it in last year. Ten Republicans total voted no on the Patriot Act in 2010, so that leaves an explanation due for two of those ten. Vern Ehlers of Michigan, who served eighth terms in Congress after first being elected in 1993, retired and did not seek office for 2011. Ehlers was replaced by Justin Amash, a Tea Party candidate who is pro-life, for lower taxes and smaller government. He is of Palestinian and Syrian descent, “the first Palestinian American in Congress”. Amash is Christian, and a former Michigan statehouse member who voted no on more bills than anyone else. Amash voted no on the Patriot Act. The second out of the ten who voted no last year is Jason Chaffetz of Utah. He just began his second term in Congress, and it is not clear at this time why he changed his vote from no to yes on the Patriot Act this year. Roscoe Bartlett from Maryland: Serving his 10th term, his website states “Roscoe G. Bartlett considers himself a citizen-legislator, not a politician.” Continue reading on Examiner.com: http://www.examiner.com/la-county-libertarian-in-los-angeles/26-repubs-who-supported-liberty-voted-no-on-the-patriot-act-who-are-they#ixzz1DTTazvZw |
| Two GOP Senate Hopefuls Help Block PATRIOT Act Posted: 09 Feb 2011 07:04 AM PST
In the wake of the PATRIOT Act reauthorization defeat last night, the conventional wisdom has held that it was the Tea Party freshmen who played a crucial role in preventing it from passing. But in reality, the Republican opposition was much more mainstream – and was joined by two Republicans who have their eyes on the Senate in 2012. Both Reps. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) were among the 26 Republicans who voted against the reauthorization. Mack is seriously mulling a Senate campaign, and has been positioning himself as a center-right candidate on immigration as he prepares for a race. Nonetheless, he has a solid conservative voting record in the House – with a 100 percent ACU score in 2008. Heller, meanwhile, is considering challenging ethically-plagued Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) in a primary – and some Republican strategists privately would prefer Heller, given his lack of personal baggage. Nevada has a libertarian streak, though, and Heller represents the huge, empty swath of territory where many of his constituents hold distinctly anti-government sentiment. But their votes could certainly come back to haunt them in a Republican primary, especially in a state like Florida where national security issues are front and center. One of Mack’s potential Senate rivals, former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, has positioned himself as a foreign policy hawk and would likely use Mack’s vote against him. To read more, visit: http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/02/two-gop-senate.php |
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