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Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 12/4/16
CALENDAR: The House will return on Monday, with no votes to be held before 6:30 PM. The House will stay in session through Thursday. The Senate will return on Monday, with the first vote set for 5:30 PM. The Senate will stay in session through Friday. LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR: The House began…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 11/27/16
CALENDAR: The House will return on Tuesday, with no votes to be held before 6:30 PM. The House will stay in session through Friday, with the last vote scheduled for no later than 3 PM. The Senate will return on Monday, with the first vote set for Tuesday morning at 11:30 AM. The Senate will…
Read MoreThe reason three times as many Muslims voted for Trump compared to Romney
A poll released last week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations found that President-elect Donald Trump garnered nearly three times as many votes from Muslim-American men and women than Mitt Romney did during his unsuccessful bid for the White House in 2012. The Daily Caller reports: The CAIR exit poll of more than 2,000 registered…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 11/13/16
CALENDAR: The House will return on Monday, November 14, with votes postponed until 6:30 PM, and will stay in session through Thursday, with no votes scheduled later than 3 PM. The Senate will return on Tuesday, November 15, with the first vote set for 5:30 PM. They are scheduled to stay in session through Friday.…
Read MoreTrump eyes the border, healthcare, jobs
President-elect Donald Trump Thursday after a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) laid out his priorities upon inauguration. The Washington Examiner has the story: “We’re going to look very strongly at immigration … the border,” he told reporters in the Senate when asked to name the top issues he wants to tackle. “We’ll…
Read MoreRepublican Congress has its sights set on Obamacare
Repealing Obamacare will sit atop the agenda come January, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the heels of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory. Newsweek has the story: “It’s a pretty high item on our agenda,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters at a press conference in the Capitol Wednesday afternoon. “And I would…
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