Republican Representative Spencer Bachus, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has come out in strong opposition to the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, giving the new law a grade of F in July of 2011. Why? What’s objectionable about a law that creates an independent consumer protection watchdog agency with the job of making sure [...]
It’s great that Roy Olson is seeking to bring a dose of reality to the discussion about immigration, but in terms of electoral politics, it’s an approach that may not move his candidacy forward very far.
If this year’s contest in Doc Hastings’s district is any indication, the Tea Party is more of an aspect of the Republican Party than an independent movement working to check the power of the GOP.
These politicians have not been elected to Congress to complain about Washington. They’ve been elected to Congress to be part of Washington, and make it better.
Senator Maria Cantwell got specific, referring to particular businesses in her home state that had been hurt by the selfish refusal of large, private financial institutions to spread liquidity that had been provided to them by the American people.
The free market system has failed to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans, so why should anyone believe in Chris Widener’s idea that the free market system will somehow take care of all the problems with America’s health care system in the future?
When I say “legislative hearing,” you probably think of a meeting in an ornate room with formally-dressed people speaking into microphones and occasionally invoking rules of order. But these aren’t the only way in which legislation gets a hearing. Out on the street, people are speaking about legislation. Will members of Congress hear? Will members [...]
If Senator Hatch really believes that Washington is not the answer, then why has he spent so much time working there, pushing through his agenda for what the federal government should do to solve America’s problems?
Why does Virginia Foxx keep asking to be re-elected, to return to work in Washington, if she really hates the place so much?
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