Tag: Senate

Most parties to the “fiscal cliff” negotiations employ a rhetorical veneer about the importance of compromise on both sides. They riff off Obama’s “balanced approach” talking point and stress that “everything is on the table.” Of course, it isn’t really

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (R-NV) has a new quest: to rid the Senate of the filibuster, a tool used by minority parties to force compromise. And now he has an ally in that quest: President Barack Obama, the same

Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) has indicated that voting to raise taxes on those making over $250,000 would not violate the anti-tax Taxpayer Protection Pledge he signed. “I don’t see that as a violation of my pledge,” Cole said of Grover

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) challenged Republicans like Senators Saxby Chambliss (GA) and Lindsey Graham (SC), who have indicated they may break the anti-tax pledge they signed, to stop talking and fall in line with Democrats to raise taxes

As President Barack Obama begins his campaign for tax hikes, Republicans are losing the political battle over the “fiscal cliff”–but not because Obama won re-election. Rather, they are losing for three reasons that have little to do with the election:

Last presidential election cycle, Texas Governor Rick Perry was disqualified by the Republican base largely because of his support for Texas’ DREAM Act, granting in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. Now Senate Republicans are proposing a national version of the same

America has a debt crisis. And Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) has a solution: a commission! The last fiscal commission President Obama tried was Simpson-Bowles, which called for serious entitlement reform and massive spending cuts. Obama rejected their recommendations.

President Obama likes to say that he wants a “balanced” approach to address our nation’s fiscal challenges. Presumably, this means a mixture of spending cuts and tax hikes to get our fiscal house in order. He has been very specific

A new poll from CNN/ORC shows that President Obama remains Teflon despite the fact that he designed the upcoming fiscal cliff to speculation. Even though Obama insisted on massive defense cuts and huge tax increases as the two alternative parts

Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) threatened changes to the Senate filibuster system, which forces most measures to receive 60 votes in order to receive an actual vote. The filibuster has been a centuries-old constitutional traditional driving compromise rather

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took to the floor of the Senate today to slam President Obama for his kowtowing to the radical left on tax policy ahead of the much-dreaded fiscal cliff. McConnell said that talks have now

I am incredibly steamed this Thanksgiving Holiday over what the Democrats are doing to my country.  Everybody by now knows – or should know – how readily Democrats conduct election fraud, and how determined they are to defend it. James O’Keefe

The National Republican Senatorial Committee had a rotten track record in 2012. But now they’re looking to get more deeply involved in picking candidates at the state level, hoping to foreclose Tea Party primary challengers like Richard Mourdock (R-IN). “There’s

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is widely considered a potential candidate for president in 2016. That speculation was fueled last week by Paul’s statement on national television that he wouldn’t rule out running in 2016. But in order for Paul to

In the coming conflict over whether to raise the debt limit, Wall Street and some businesses worried that the looming “fiscal cliff” will jeopardize markets are facing off against Republicans who prefer to keep the debt limit in place so that the

(AP) House to consider limited GOP immigration billBy JIM ABRAMSAssociated PressWASHINGTONHouse Republicans still smarting from their poor showing among Hispanics in the presidential election are planning a vote next week on immigration legislation that would both expand visas for foreign

(AP) Fiscal cliff: How to judge if debt cuts are realBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama and leaders of the lame-duck Congress may be just weeks away from shaking hands on a deal to avert the dreaded “fiscal cliff.” So

Speaking at The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s “Restoration Weekend” in Florida on November 16, Pat Caddell indicted what he called the Republican “consultant-lobbyist-establishment” complex for losing a presidential campaign in 2012 President Barack Obama had no business winning.  “No presidential

Thirty-eight Senators and 219 House members have signed Grover Norquist’s famed anti-tax “Taxpayer Protection Pledge,” which has been instrumental in preventing politicians from increasing taxes. But after Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) indicated on Wednesday to a Georgia television station that