Have questions about the House Leadership election?

Some people online, in the news, and in conversations with me the last 24 hours have posed various questions along these lines: Let me unpack some of these questions in case you, too, are asking them. First, why have some but not all of the House Freedom Caucus not taken a stand for a change…

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Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 8/28/17

CALENDAR: The House and Senate have both left for their August recess, and will not return until Tuesday, September 5. DEBT CEILING: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has advised Congress that he will reach the limit of his ability to use what he calls “extraordinary measures” – what regular people call “smoke and mirrors” – to…

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Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report From Washington for 8/7/17

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CALENDAR: The House and Senate have both left for their August recess, and will not return until Tuesday, September 5. LAST WEEK ON THE SENATE FLOOR: The Senate returned on Monday and voted to invoke cloture on the nomination of Kevin Newsom of Alabama to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the 11th Circuit. The…

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