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Scott Walker: I Will Run as a Conservative (Newsmax – Joel Himelfarb)
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Monday that Republicans do not need to moderate their views to win voter support and that he will run as a conservative if he decides to seek the Republican Party presidential nomination... Continue here.
“Morning Joe” co-host goes after Ted Cruz, Tea Partiers
“Morning Joe” is one of the smallest morning shows in America, but its influence in the Beltway is disproportionate to the number of viewers in real America. This is what makes Mika Brzezinski’s statements this morning on Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) patriotism – as well as those of Tea Partiers – totally expected, but no less unacceptable.
The segment of the show focused around the “shutdown” and the effort to defund Obamacare:
“It shows how much they hate him [Obama] and don’t love the country, and that’s what’s scary about this.”
And later, after being challenged by Joe Scarborough:
“Are you saying they do?” ...
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 9/18/16
CALENDAR:
The House will return on Tuesday, with first votes scheduled for 6:30 PM. They are scheduled to stay in town through Friday, with no votes after 3 PM.
The Senate will return on Monday, with the first vote scheduled for 5:30 PM on a motion to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to H.R. 5325, the House-passed Legislative Branch appropriations bill that will serve as the vehicle for the FY17 Continuing Resolution. And they’ll stick around just long enough to get that bill passed.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
On Tuesday, the House took up and passed H.R. 3590, the Halt Tax Increases on the Middle Class and Seniors Act, ...
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 7/10/16
CALENDAR:
The House will return on Monday, July 11, with the first vote scheduled for 6:30 PM. The House will stay in session until Friday, with no votes later than 3:30 PM. And then begins the Summer Recess, which will last for seven glorious weeks, until Tuesday, September 6.
The Senate will return on Monday, July 11, with the first vote scheduled for 5:30 PM. The Senate will stay in session until Friday, at which point begins the Senate’s Summer Recess, which will also last for seven glorious weeks, until Tuesday, September 6.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House was in recess for the Fourth of July break from Friday, June 24 ...
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 6/24/16
CALENDAR:
The House is in recess for the Fourth of July break, and will not return until Tuesday, July 5.
The Senate will be back at work on Monday, June 27.
LAST TWO WEEKS ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House came back into session on Monday, June 13. They took up seven bills on the Suspension Calendar.
On Tuesday, June 14, the House took up two bills under Rules – including H.R. 5053, the Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech Act, offered by Rep. Peter Roskam of IL. That bill passed by a vote of 240-182, with but one Republican – Chris Gibson, of New York’s 19th congressional district – voting against it. So, no soup ...
Call to thank your senators for giving us a voice in the direction of the Supreme Court!
President Obama is trying to bully the Senate into confirming Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court as part of his plan to stack the Court with a liberal majority that will undermine our most cherished rights. Merrick Garland would be the fifth vote on the Supreme Court to gut our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and empower unaccountable bureaucrats at agencies like the IRS and EPA – he must be stopped! Even the liberal New York Times admits a Supreme Court with Merrick Garland would be “the most liberal in decades.”
Fortunately, Senate Republicans, led by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), are holding firm and ...
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 4/03/16
CALENDAR:
The House is in recess and will not return until Tuesday, April 12.
The Senate will come back into session until Monday, April 4.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
They were in recess.
THIS WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
They are still in recess.
LAST WEEK ON THE SENATE FLOOR:
They were in recess last week.
THIS WEEK ON THE SENATE FLOOR:
When the Senate returns on Monday, April 4, the Senate will vote on passage of S. 1890, the Defend Trade Secrets Act. After that, they could spend time on FAA reauthorization, appropriations bills, or the Energy Policy Modernization Act.
Frankly, I’d bet they’re going ...
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 3/20/16
CALENDAR:
The House returns Monday, and will be in session through Wednesday. Then they’ll break for the Easter recess, and will not return until Tuesday, April 12.
The Senate is now in recess for the Easter break, and won’t come back into session until Monday, April 4. I apologize for my error last week, when I said the Senate wouldn’t be coming back until April 12.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House began its week Monday, taking up 14 bills on the Suspension Calendar. We discussed two of these bills briefly last week – H. Con. Res. 121, expressing the sense of Congress “condemning the gross ...
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington 2/28/2016
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 2/28/16 CALENDAR:
The House and Senate will return on Monday, February 29.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House came back into session last Monday, and took up 13 bills on the Suspension Calendar. On Wednesday, they took up seven bills on the Suspension Calendar.
On Thursday, they passed H.R. 3624, the Fraudulent Joinder Prevention Act. That’s a bill that establishes a uniform standard for determining whether a defendant has been fraudulently joined to a lawsuit in order to defeat federal diversity jurisdiction. The bill passed by a vote of 229-189-15.
On Friday, the House ...