Blaine Luetkemeyer

Welcome to the 'Blaine Luetkemeyer' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Blaine Luetkemeyer'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Blaine Luetkemeyer”

• What They Said

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 578
  The Post-Dispatch : "If the GOP doesnt want to be branded the "Party of Stupid," it could stand to nominate more people who can speak eloquently on complicated policy matters."
  1 day ago

• Talks about Chinese hub in STL shift to a dinner in DC

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 599
  Amb. Zhou Wenzhong WASHINGTON — With the necessary funding to promote a Chinese cargo hub in St. Louis all-but-secured, the sales pitch continues. Members of Missouri’s congressional delegation and Gov. Jay Nixon will break bread tomorrow night in Washington with Zhou Wenzhong , the Chinese…
  1 week ago

• Forsee Starting To Walk It Back? I Was "Never Not In Support of Cap-and-Trade," He Says

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 578
  The Tribunes Janese Heavin has the scoop on a really interesting development in the story of Gary Forsees opposition to federal clean energy legislation. For several days, hes sustained criticism for lending support to the Republican efforts to kill the legislation. Then yesterday, things got a whole lot worse for ...
  2 weeks ago

• GOP Delegation Votes Against Estate Tax Fix and Tax Cut

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 578
  Yesterday, the House voted 225-200 to permanently extend the estate tax at its 2009 level -- 45% for estates valued at more than $3.5 million, or $7 million for a couple .  As part of the 2001 Bush administration tax cuts for the wealthiest 5% of taxpayers, the estate tax gradually decreased and was set to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Luetkemeyer Weekly Column Based On Misguided Forsee Letter

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 578
  Im dont have anything particularly insightful or clever to say about this column -- its just embarrassing. There have been some very disturbing and yet enlightening developments about the real science surrounding theories of man-made global warming. In recent days, we also have seen our state’s major ...
  2 weeks ago

• Forsee Opposition To Energy Bill Based On Faulty Assumptions

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 578
  The Tribune reports this afternoon that U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has responded to UM System President Gary Forsees letter opposing federal clean energy and climate bill.  It turns out that Forsees calculations, put together by the Director of Energy Management at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oh, Lordy

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 578
  Blaine Luetkemeyer has called for a congressional investigation into the climategate emails.
  2 weeks ago

• Local Republican reaction varies on Obama’s Afghanistan speech

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 599
  Obama delivers his plan at West Point Local Republicans offered a mix reaction to President Obama’s announcement last night that he will send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. U.S. Sen. Kit Bond , who is retiring next year, was mostly positive, offering…
  2 weeks ago

• "GOPers Are Surprisingly Out of Step" on Global Warming

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 578
  The Plum Lines Greg Sargent looks at some of the data from the new Washington Post-ABC News poll about global warming . They show that only a bare majority of Republicans believe in global warming, and that GOPers are surprisingly out of step with the rest of the electorate (independents included) on the ...
  3 weeks ago

• UMO system pres pans climate change bills; enviros irked

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 599
  Forsee WASHINGTON — In the climate change battle in Washington pitting region against region, the often skeptical Midwest has acquired a new ally: University of Missouri System President Gary Forsee . In a letter written to Missourians in Congress, Forsee declared that the University…
  3 weeks ago

• Thanks, But No Thanks

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 578
  Does Eric Cantor think hes doing Blaine Luetkemeyer a favor here ?  Blaine Luetkemeyer has really hit the ground running," Cantor said. As an example, he continued, "Blaine has been a part of the crafting of the Republican alternative on the health-care front."
  4 weeks ago

• DC lobbyist lawfirm bipartisan in hosting Colorado campaign fundraisers

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 623
  Today, U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton’s army of big-name lobbyist supporters are hosting another fundraiser for her in DC, this one at the Williams & Jensen lobbying lawfirm townhouse near the Capitol. Tomorrow, it’s Sen. Michael Bennet’s turn. He’s being feted at Williams & Jensen by supporters ...
  4 weeks ago

• Republicans Who Let Corporate Lobbyists Write Their Speeches

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 429
  These Republican members of Congress allowed lobbyists for a foreign organization to slip special statements into their official speeches.
  4 weeks ago

• Lobbyists Pull Luetkemeyers Strings

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 578
  The New York Times reports today that Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer and more than a dozen of his colleagues in Congress passed on statements in their names that were, in fact, written by lobbyists for the biotech company Genentech. Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by ...
  4 weeks ago

• What a Roomful of Parrots Looks Like

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 696
  As the NYT reported earlier today, Genentech/Roche wrote a Republican script and a Democratic script for its parrots to enter into the Congressional Record. Here’s what the Republican script looks like (I’m going to try to do the Democratic one next–but this is tedious stuff; and yes, Heath Shuler was working ...
  4 weeks ago

• Our Chatty Cathy Congress

  
  Swampland — Authority: 719
  Those of us former little girls of a certain age can remember a doll that we all had to have. She was called Chatty Cathy, and if you pulled a string in her neck, she would say things like "Please brush my hair" and "Lets have a party!"It turns out that Chatty Cathy and the [...]
  4 weeks ago

• In House, Many Spoke With One Voice

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 556
  “One of the reasons I have long supported the U.S. biotechnology industry is that it is a homegrown success story that has been an engine of job creation in this country.” This written statement by Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina on the health care bill was identical to one by ... Eschaton found this 15 hours ...
  5 weeks ago

Comments about Blaine Luetkemeyer