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Posts Tagged 'Allen Boyd'

Blue Dog Boyd Won’t Talk About Oil Spill

Posted on May 3 2010 by Congress Watcher

As of yet, Blue Dog Allen Boyd has said nothing about the spill at all. It’s as if he’s pretending the problem doesn’t exist.

Sarah Palin Targets Blue Dogs, Right Wing Dems

Posted on March 24 2010 by Congress Watcher

Sarah Palin is going after low hanging fruit. She’s chosen to target Democrats that will be easy to defeat, because they don’t have strong support from voters in their own political party.

Allen Boyd Acts to Restrict Marriage While His Own Falls Apart

Posted on February 14 2010 by Congressional Aid

In 2008, Florida congressman Allen Boyd told the Christian Family Coalition that he would vote for a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality under the law, cutting off marriage and its benefits to all same-sex couples, even for states that had made it legal. Indeed, in 2004 and in 2006 he voted for just such [...]

5 Democrats Oppose Workplace Fairness

Posted on January 31 2009 by Congress Watcher

For this bunch of new blue dogs, indifference to the needs of working Americans is only the start of the problem.

House Preparing Unconstitutional Recognition of Billy Graham

Posted on July 24 2008 by Congress Watcher

The problem is in the way that this resolution provides the official recognition and sanction of Congress for Billy Graham’s religious practice and promotion of Christianity. Congress has no place passing legislation respecting that kind of activity. Americans ought to judge for themselves whether one religion is worthwhile, not have Congress lecture them on the subject.

105 Democrats Who Betrayed the Constitution on Spying

Posted on June 20 2008 by Congress Watcher

To vote for this bill was to insult the Constitution of the United States of America, and in doing so, to insult the USA itself. A vote in favor of this bill is a betrayal of the Oath of Office every member of Congress has taken. It is unpatriotic, and a grave breach of trust.

Status of the Equal Rights Amendment

Posted on May 28 2008 by Congress Watcher

You are probably not aware of it, but the Equal Rights Amendment did not die back in the 1980s. It has been brought back to the House of Representatives and to the Senate. Both the Senate and House versions of the proposed constitutional amendment state that: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be [...]

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