Tag Archives: U.S. House

A few days ago John Aravosis posted an AmericaBlog column titled The 7 Gayest Aaron Schock Instagram Posts Of 2013 in which he needled Schock’s famous sense of fashion and devotion to bodybuilding. That AmericaBlog post was referenced in yesterday’s Facebook piece on Schock by CBS reporter Itay Hod. And JMG reader Michael reports that Schock today made his Instagram …

The Washington Blade reports that American Idol contestant and openly gay pop singer Clay Aiken is considering running for the U.S. House. Via Chris Johnson: The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the 35-year-old Raleigh native has taken initial steps for a run, including consulting with political operatives in Washington, D.C., about a bid for the seat. One …

From the AmericaBlog post titled “The 7 Gayest Instagram Posts By Aaron Schock.”

(Via JMG reader Scott)

Virginia Tea Party activist Peter Greenwald spent the weekend asking hate group leaders for their support in his campaign to unseat House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.  Bryan Fischer happily retweeted the above yesterday afternoon.

Media Matters notes that Louisiana’s major newspapers have so far largely refused to report on hate group leader Tony Perkin’s vile anti-gay history and his associations with white supremacist groups as he considers a run for the US House. As he contemplates taking his extremist act to the halls of Congress, it appears that Perkins won’t have to worry about …

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) today reintroduced a House resolution that denounces the use of “ex-gay” torture on LGBT youth. Speier introduced the same resolution in November 2012, but it was not allowed to come to a floor vote. Lambda Legal reacts to today’s action via press release: We applaud the introduction of this important resolution, which adds the voice of …

Freshman US House Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL), who bills himself as a “hip-hop conservative,” has been charged with cocaine possession. Radel, 37, was charged with misdemeanor possession of cocaine in D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday. He is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday. Radel faces a maximum of 180 days in jail, as well as a possible fine up …

A follow-up from Buzzfeed’s J. Lester Feder: The office of House Speaker John Boehner secured meeting space for the World Congress of Families after their original sponsor, Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, canceled their space in a Senate office building following an outcry from LGBT activists, the group’s leader said. World Congress of Families President Allan Carlson praised Boehner’s intervention at …

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“This would not have happened without the blessing of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church). The Mormon Church got a big black eye five years ago for all it did to pass Proposition 8 in California, which wrote discrimination into the state Constitution and took away gay marriage in the nation’s largest state. So in …

“We commend Speaker Boehner for opposing ENDA because of the costly lawsuits that burden businesses in an already struggling economy. The law creates a new federal mandate on businesses based on sexuality and does not allow businesses the choice of taking those things into consideration when they think it is appropriate. For examples, businesses, including daycares and public schools, will …

As I’ve said here for the last few years, there has been zero chance of ENDA’s passage in the House ever since the GOP assumed the majority in 2010. But with all of today’s news about the bill, please keep in mind that its presumed passage in the Senate WILL move the issue dramatically forward as it drags formerly recalcitrant …

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“She shared with me when she actually stepped up to the podium that she didn’t know what she was going to say; that those words that came out were what she prayed ‘Lord, I’m your vessel, you speak through me.’ So her belief is, and my belief is, is that those words came from God. It’s not He coached her, …

41K signatures. And yes, it’s silly, but at least it has the wingnuts over at the amusingly named Legal Insurrection in a tizzy.

Former House Speaker Tom Foley has died at the age of 84. Foley, also a former U.S. ambassador to Japan in the Clinton administration, had been in hospice care at his home in the nation’s capital. He represented eastern Washington state in the U.S. House of Representatives for 15 terms, from 1965 to 1995. “With his passing, the House loses …

“For the past 2 and 1/2 weeks, the Holy Spirit has been waking me up in the middle of the night and preparing me (through my reluctance and doubt) to deliver a message in the House Chamber. That is what I did last night.” – US House stenographer Dianne Reidy, in an email to Fox News. Her husband adds: “My …

As the shutdown votes were being tabulated in the US House tonight, a chamber stenographer rushed the microphone below the speaker’s chair and began shouting about mocking God, the US Constitution, and her savior Jesus Christ. House security guards rushed the woman as startled reps near the dais tried to shush her and the chairperson slammed the gavel. Quite the …

Mediaite recaps: Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) found himself on the wrong side of the House of Representatives Tuesday afternoon. It might have had something to do with the target of his fiery speech: the House of Representatives. Grayson sought to bring a resolution declaring that the government shutdown had been a blight upon the dignity of the legislature, citing multiple …