Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., notified the president today that they will not participate in one of the more controversial parts of the health care law, known as Obamacare.
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Boehner and McConnell won’t lend help in setting up Healthcare Board…
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Adding Same-Sex Couples rights to Immigration bill may stop it …..
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“If that’s in the bill, that will kill the bill,” said Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a member of the gang. “This bill has got to get broad support to have a chance in the House, and with that provision it will not have broad support. A lot of the coalitions that are behind it will go away, and so I think that’s pretty much understood.”
Share on FacebookThe House holds more Benghazi Hearings……
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Q. But haven’t the inadequacy of security measures at Benghazi and other shortcomings already been addressed in a major report?
A. Yes.
Share on FacebookAs the Economy gets Better a Budget Deal looks Less….
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That might seem like good news, but it is unraveling Republican plans to force a budget deal before Congress takes its August break. Instead, the fiscal fight appears certain to bleed into the fall, when policymakers will face another multi-pronged crisis that pairs the need for a higher debt limit and the fresh risk of default with the threat of a full-scale government shutdown,which is also looming Oct. 1.
Share on FacebookDaily Kos Elections Morning Digest 5/7/13: Once a GOP rising star, Nathan Fletcher joins the Democrats
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Ah, to be a rising star in a hard-luck party in the nation’s biggest state.
There could be worse things, though—like remaining a member of that hard-luck party.
Share on FacebookGOP Senator’s Ayotte and Flake say they will vote for background checks….
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It appears that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will bring up the background check on gun sales bill again in the Senate for a vote….
Share on FacebookNJ Governor has had stomach surgery….2016?
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Christie has struggled with his weight for decades. He sometimes jokes about it, while other times, it’s a sensitive topic. Insiders said it was the only thing keeping the straight-talking executive from higher office.
Share on FacebookDemocrats may put background checks bill back up in the Senate even IF it won’t pass again…
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I may be able to get another Democrat or two. That would get us up to 57. We may only need three additional Republicans.
So we’ll see.”
Share on FacebookNate Silver on a possible Gomez win in his Mass Spec Senate bid…..
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The state is holding another special Senate election in June, in which the Republican candidate, Gabriel Gomez, is drawing comparisons to Mr. Brown, and Republicans are hopeful that they can win again.
The problem with using the 2010 race as a precedent is that it may have been an outlier……
Share on FacebookThe House has been told US Spec Ops and Fighter’s where witheld from Benghazi
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The new details are certain to reignite a debate over whether the Obama administration has been sufficiently forthcoming in its public accounting of the events and missteps that resulted in the first death of a U.S. ambassador in the line of duty in a generation. If Republicans in Congress succeed in portraying the administration’s response as feckless, the episode could dog any future political aspirations of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was secretary of state when the attacks happened….
Share on FacebookThe Sequester starts to get personal…….
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While most people where unaware that their government was instituting wide cuts BEFORE the sequester…
They now are feeling those cuts ON TOP of the sequester cuts …..
And Congress, feeling the pain, is divided on what to do…..
Share on FacebookThe Black Vote and the GOP……
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…….Republican attempts to lure black voters by twisting and spinning and blatantly lying about who they are as a party and who and what they stand for…..
Share on FacebookWould the Latino vote been enough for Romney?
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The most serious of those problems was that Romney was not able to connect with white voters who were so turned off by the campaign that they abandoned the GOP and in many cases stayed away from the polls altogether…..
Share on FacebookMarco Rubio comes out with his argument for Immigration Reform….
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Next week, the Senate will begin making changes to and, hopefully, improve the immigration-reform legislation I introduced with several colleagues last month. This part of the process is a chance to fix America’s broken immigration system and end today’s de facto amnesty for those who live here illegally. It will also show that Washington can work when leaders listen to the American people and invoke their wisdom in debates and legislative work.
Share on FacebookThe President isn’t all that powerful….
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Today, a minority of senators can kill bipartisan legislation that is supported by a majority of their colleagues. And they frequently do. In the House, the speaker alone can kill bipartisan legislation that is supported by a majority of his colleagues.
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