322 posts tagged 110th congress

On Thursday, the US House voted to extend unemployment benefits an additional 26 weeks in states with severe economic problems, like our own Michigan. The amendment passed 256-166. Guess who voted against the amendment?

This is rather interesting. Congressional Republicans, in the wake of their embarrassing and downright depressing loss in the special election in Mississippi's first congressional district, are talking about downplaying the things that currently make the party so unpopular with the American people while trying to embrace as tightly as possible their presidential nominee, John McCain.

The WaPo: The House yesterday passed a final version of a new five-year farm bill by a vote of 318 to 106, a margin large enough to override President Bush’s promised veto of the nearly $300 billion measure.

Bloggers - please help FreedomWorks take down Senate bailout bill From Nan E. Swift Campaign Coordinator FreedomWorks (202) 942-7675 www.freedomworks.org Housing Bailout Moves Forward in Congress Last Thursday the House of Representatives voted 266-154 to advance a $300 billion program of taxpayer-financed mortgages to home speculators and their lenders.

Bloggers - please help FreedomWorks take down Senate bailout bill From Nan E. Swift Campaign Coordinator FreedomWorks (202) 942-7675 www.freedomworks.org Housing Bailout Moves Forward in Congress Last Thursday the House of Representatives voted 266-154 to advance a $300 billion program of taxpayer-financed mortgages to home speculators and their lenders.

As many have said in the past year, I didn’t leave the Republican party, the party left me. I confess, that said statement very much sums up how I feel about the current situation of the Presidential Election. As a self-respecting conservative voter, I cannot vote for either Hillary or Obama.

The following is an action alert from Redstate: The "Blue Dog" Democrats are the conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives. Twenty-one of the Blue Dogs signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi on January 28th urging her to move the bipartisan FISA legislation forward.

I thought I saw Al Gore’s cold breath in the air last week…. the New York Times finally admits success in recent surge by Iraqi troops in Basra. Three hundred miles south of Baghdad, the oil-saturated city of Basra has been transformed by its own surge, now seven weeks old.

The Week Ahead - U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (May 12-16) Click here for additional information about legislation pending before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources May 9th, 2008 * On Tuesday, May 13, the full committee will examine the impacts of climate

Your calls and faxes this week are creating quite the stir on the Hill — UPDATE on SAVE campaign UPDATE NO. 1: We’ve added another signer of the SAVE Discharge Petition — Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) Three cheers for NumbersUSA activists in Indiana! UPDATE NO. 2: That makes 188 signers.