Tag Archives: U.S. House

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said last night that a GOP plan to defend DOMA will be in place by the end of the week. Cantor’s announcement came as the GOP completely ended unemployment and the nation’s budget crisis, as promised. “I stand by [Boehner’s] commitment to make that happen,” Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday afternoon at a press conference, promising …

House Speaker John Boehner to CBN: “I’m really disappointed in the President and the Department of Justice in the fact that they’re not going to defend a law that Congress passed overwhelmingly. It’s their responsibility to do that. Now, it’s happened before where administrations have decided they weren’t going to go out and vigorously defend a law that Congress passed …

House Speaker John Boehner’s spokesman just issued this terse statement: “While Americans want Washington to focus on creating jobs and cutting spending, the President will have to explain why he thinks now is the appropriate time to stir up a controversial issue that sharply divides the nation.” Talking Points Memo sez: “Boehner could, in theory, intervene as a third party …

Another classic from our hero. And how gross is it to see whackjob Rep. Virginia Foxx referred to as “Madame Chair”?

Even though Planned Parenthood has been long banned from using any of its federal money for abortions, today the GOP led a lopsided vote to completely defund the agency. The vote was 240-185 with ten Democrats siding with the GOP. The measure would eliminate about $330 million through the end of September for preventative-health services, including federal funding for contraception …

In recent years, Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) introduced a House resolution calling for the United States to recognize that it is a “Judeo-Christian nation.” Another Forbes resolution called on the federal government to recognize that “the Holy Bible is God’s word.” Now he wants the feds to acknowledge that “In God We Trust” is the nation’s official motto. Which it …

CLASSIC rant from our favorite House Democrat.

Think Progress compiled this clip of GOP House members who today will vote to repeal “Obamacare.” But none of them intend to give up their own “government-sponsored health insurance.”

The husband of Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) was murdered in a 1993 mass shooting on the Long Island Railroad. When Congress reconvenes after this period of mourning, she will introduce a bill similar to the 1994 law banning gun clips that hold more than ten bullets. That law was allowed to expire on schedule in 2004 due to pressure exerted …

It turns out actress Janine Turner is kind of a nut.

As Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) read the Constitution’s stipulation that the president must be a natural-born citizen, a woman in the gallery of the U.S. House shouted, “Except for Obama! Except for Obama! Help us Jesus!” She was immediately removed. So much for the sanctity of our nation’s most-revered document. UPDATE: Unsurprisingly, World Net Daily is ecstatic.

Noting that the gavel he’d selected was “larger than most,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi has handed over power to Speaker John Boehner. FSM help us all.

Man, I hope we haven’t seen the last of him.

On her final day as the first woman Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi says she has “no regrets.”

She wanted to be on the powerful Ways & Means Committee, but instead incoming House Speaker John Boehner has appointed Crazy Eyes to the House Intelligence Committee. Yup. The committee has oversight jurisdiction of the CIA, the National Security Agency, other intelligence agencies within the Department of Defense, and the Departments of State, Justice, and Treasury, and the FBI. This …

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