Tag Archives: U.S. House

House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan today unveiled a long-term plan that would dramatically overhaul the way the federal government and states administer Medicare and Medicaid. The GOP plan also, of course, repeals “Obamacare.” Ryan’s budget proposal aims to slash $6 trillion from the budget over the next 10 years. It would in part accomplish that by changing Medicaid …

Via press release, a letter from the six House Democrats who are lead sponsors of the bill to repeal DOMA. Dear Mr. Speaker, It is our understanding that deadlines for Congressional action are fast approaching and that House General Counsel or outside counsel retained to represent the House must appear and move to intervene or otherwise participate, if it chooses …

Sometimes it feels like Weiner and his college roommate Jon Stewart should totally switch jobs.

Talking Points Memo reports that the GOP is furiously trying to scrub the net of the below video in which freshman Tea Party-backed GOP Rep. Sean Duffy (WI) complains about his annual salary of $174,000. A day after TPM posted the video we obtained of Duffy talking about his salary at a Polk County town hall meeting earlier this year, …

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Rep. Barney Frank will reintroduce the trans-inclusive version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) this week. Metro Weekly’s Chris Geidner reports that even Frank has no illusions about the bill’s chances. Although the bill is not expected to move forward in the House under the leadership of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Frank, talking with Metro Weekly on Sunday, March 27, …

“This sends a clear message to all these government departments and agencies that it’s all right to put up the motto on our buildings and in our classrooms. And I think it will stop the tide of the chilling effect over the past several years. We’re not forcing anybody to do anything. But at the same time, we want to …

Yesterday the House Judiciary Committee approved the bill requiring the placement of “In God We Trust” on all “public buildings, public schools, and other government institutions.” The bill was introduced by Tea Party-backed GOP Rep. Randy Forbes (VA), who in recent years introduced bills demanding that the federal government “recognize the Holy Bible as the inerrant word of God.” Forbes’ …

“Fortunately, Republican leaders understand that there are plenty of reasons to stick up for DOMA. Defending marriage is not only in the nation’s cultural interest–it’s in our economic interest. A few years ago, Georgia State University put together a cost analysis of marital breakdown. By their calculations, America spends $112 billion a year just from divorce and out-of-wedlock births. That’s …

Tea Party-backed House candidate Jack Davis has New York’s GOP leadership spinning in full reverse to disassociate themselves from racist remarks he made in recent interviews. Congressional candidate Jack Davis shocked local Republican leaders in a recent interview when he suggested that Latino farmworkers be deported — and that African-Americans from the inner city be bused to farm country to …

With Freedom To Marry’s Evan Wolfson looking on.

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee today approved Rep. Barney Frank’s budget amendment that would discourage the granting of foreign aid to nations that engage in the “physical persecution” of their citizens on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identify. Michelle Garcia reports at the Advocate: The text of the amendment reads: “The Committee urges Treasury to advocate that …

Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann has introduced a House resolution condemning the president for refusing to defend DOMA. The bill reads in part: Whereas passed by significant majorities in both chambers of Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton, the Defense of Marriage Act has never been overturned in any Federal lawsuit challenging its constitutionality by a Federal …

“The extreme wing of the Republican Party is making a big mistake with their flat-out opposition to a short-term continuing resolution. I know that there is some opposition to working with Senate Democrats from the extreme right of the Tea Party who would rather see a government shutdown than pass a short-term solution; however, as long as we continue to …

House Democrats will introduce a bill to repeal DOMA on Wednesday. The bill already has 105 cosponsors, but faces a likely death from the GOP majority. Julie Bolcer reports at the Advocate: “The Respect for Marriage Act would repeal DOMA, and comes in response to a call from President Obama for Congressional action on the issue,” reports the news release. …

By a 3-2 vote, the leaders of the U.S. House voted today to intervene in the DOMA cases presently in the courts. In a party-line vote of 3-2, the five-member Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group composed of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Democrats House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi …

Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) announced today that they are more than ready to take on Speaker John Boehner’s special House counsel on DOMA. Via press release: “It is now perfectly clear that U.S. House leaders plan to intervene in the pending cases,” said Mary L. Bonauto, co-lead attorney in GLAD’s two cases Gill et al. v. Office …

“I want to thank Speaker Boehner and the House Republican leadership for taking action to defend this critical law that was enacted by a bipartisan majority in Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton. It is unfortunate that President Obama decided to no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act. While much of the debate in Washington is focused on …

Chris Matthews rips Log Cabin president R. Clark Cooper over his backing of House Speaker John Boehner’s plan to defend DOMA.

The Human Rights Campaign has issued a denouncement of House Speaker John Boehner’s vow to force the defense of DOMA. Via press release: “The decision to mount an all-out defense of DOMA is particularly hypocritical given the Speaker’s contention that the President was distracted from focusing on the economy by DOMA,” said Solmonese. In order to defend the constitutionality of …