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Obamacare protests Resemble Campaign Rallies (USA Today – Jayne O’Donnell)
WASHINGTON — If the scene outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday resembled dueling campaign rallies — and it did — that was because many people's views on the hotly contested Obamacare case argued inside fall along partisan lines... Continue here.
Jay Carney Echoing President Obama’s “Pinocchios”
Last week, The Fact Checker gave President Obama Four Pinocchios for lying about the debt ceiling. Shortly afterward, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney made his own deceptive statements on the 2011 and 2013 debates.
First, Carney repeats the same claim President Obama was fact-checked for by Glenn Kessler over at The Washington Post – that the debt ceiling has never been used to gain concessions by the opposite party. Fox News’ Ed Henry took him to task:
ED HENRY: Since you said you wanted to focus on facts. Yesterday, you and the president talked about how never in the history of America has the debt ceiling been used to extort the ...
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney avoids questions like it’s his job
Between amnesty immigration, the IRS scandal, the NSA scandal, the President Obama crowd dwarfing Rally on Wednesday, and the food stamp bill, it’s been a long couple of weeks. As a break from the seriousness of what we do, here’s a little fun at White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s expense from Yahoo! News:
Jay Carney doesn’t have an answer for that. He hasn’t discussed that subject with the president. He will refer you to the Department of [insert agency here]. He refuses to speculate on that. He’ll have to get back to you.
But he appreciates the question.
A Yahoo News analysis of the 444 briefings that Carney has held since ...
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 5/07/17
CALENDAR:
The House is in recess and will return on Tuesday, May 16.
The Senate will return on Monday, with the first vote scheduled for 5:30 PM. The Senate will stay in session through Friday.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House returned on Monday, and took up and passed three bills under Suspension of the Rules.
On Tuesday, the House took up another bill under Suspension, and then took up H.R. 1180, the Working Families Flexibility Act. The bill passed by a vote of 229-197. The bill would allow employers to offer employees paid time off in lieu of wage compensation for overtime hours worked by employees in the private ...
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 4/30/17
CALENDAR:
The House will return on Monday, with no votes scheduled before 6:30, and will stay in session through Thursday, with the last vote scheduled no later than 3 PM.
The Senate will return on Monday, and will stay in session through Friday.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House returned on Tuesday and took up and passed two bills on the Suspension Calendar.
On Wednesday, the House took up and passed the rule for H.R. 1695, the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act. Later that day the House took up and passed the bill, by a vote of 378-48. The bill changes the process for choosing the head of the U.S. ...