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H.R. 1202 One Percent Spending Reduction Act of 2013 (Scott, GA) and S. 1436 One Percent Spending Reduction Act of 2013 (Enzi, WY)
Description:
This bill seeks to prevent a fiscal crisis by balancing the federal budget by cutting one penny out of every dollar the federal government spends. The bill balances the Federal budget by reducing federal spending by one percent per year for six years. Further, in the seventh year, federal spending would then be capped at 18 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), to bring future spending in line with future revenues.
Next Congressional Actions:
In the House, it was referred to the Committee on the Budget and the Committee on Rules. No roll call vote scheduled at this time.
Read twice in the Senate and referred to ...
As Obamacare co-ops crumble, residents in five states have no choice in their Obamacare exchange
Lawmakers nationwide gave speeches touting the Obamacare exchanges, saying the exchanges will create “competition” (though how this works when the exchanges are all hewn from the same rock and under the auspices of Obamacare apparently never occurred to these legislators) and thereby drive down health-insurance prices. They couldn’t have more wrong as the exchanges are crumbling. A total of five states now only have a single Obamacare-exchange option.
The Daily Signal has the details:
Five states will be down to just one health insurer on the Obamacare marketplace next year, and consumers in 664 counties are projected to face that same ...
Washington Examiner: 1,800 illegal-immigration cases per judge after case backlog surges above 500,000
There are a whopping 500,000 pending illegal-immigration cases that, divided between the 273 Justice Department immigration lawyers, amount to more than 1,800 cases per judge.
The Washington Examiner has the details:
The number has surged even as the administration has added a handful more judges. The current ratio is 1,819 cases per judge...
But the sheer numbers have forced a huge delay. It currently takes nearly two years — 672 days — for a case to get to court. During that time, the illegals are allowed into the country and several reports show that they rarely make their court date.
The Center for Immigration Studies said in ...
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 ...