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Feb 15 2014
News
Boehner Fights Back Against Tea Party, Again
A high-stakes drama played out over the debt ceiling on Capitol Hill this week. It ended with President Obama getting exactly what he'd asked for — an extension of the Treasury's borrowing authority with no strings attached — and an even wider gulf between GOP congressional leaders and Tea Party-aligned conservatives.
Underlying the Republican rift was House Speaker John Boehner's
NPR (Online News)
Feb 13 2014
News
Behind the scenes of a dramatic debt vote
Sen. Ted Cruz and the GOP rank and file ultimately backed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip John Cornyn into a corner on the debt ceiling increase. The leaders had wanted to allow the toxic measure to pass with just 51 votes so all 45 Republicans could vote against it. But Cruz, the Texas tea party freshman, demanded approval by a 60-vote threshold.
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Politico
Dec 04 2014
News
Shutdown drama builds in Congress
House Speaker John Boehner is again facing strong opposition from a group of conservatives who are trying to derail his strategy as time runs out to avert a shutdown. They are ripping his plan to kick the fight about the President's executive order on immigration until next year, arguing that voters who supported Republicans in last month's midterm elections expect Congress to wage the battle
CNN (Online News)
Jul 25 2015
News
Rand Paul Pushes Ahead to Defund Planned Parenthood, Circumvent Mitch McConnell Blocking of Amendments
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)52% is coming under fire from his home state colleague, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)93% —a GOP presidential candidate—as well, not just from Paul’s 2016 rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)96%
Paul tried to get the floor to stand up and offer an amendment to defund Planned Parenthood and another one to arm servicemen and women on military bases. He
Breitbart News
Aug 13 2019
Opinion
The Promise and Pitfalls of Universal Background Checks
This is one of the better gun-control proposals around, even if that’s not saying much.
Much as we did after Sandy Hook, we find ourselves debating background checks in the wake of killings that would not have been prevented by one. More than 60,000 Americans died by gun homicide between 2013 and 2017, but our attention is drawn only to the rarest, most spectacular, and most unusual
Guest Writer - Right
Jan 19 2014
News
Christie Tries to Shake Bridge Scandal While on Florida Fundraising Trip
Controversies dogging New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie followed him to Florida on Saturday, as he made his first out-of-state fundraising trip since his aides were linked to a plan that caused a four-day traffic snarl near the George Washington Bridge.
The New Jersey governor headlined a series of fundraisers for fellow Republican Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, drawing large crowds of GOP
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jan 09 2014
News
Nancy Pelosi: Don’t call it Obamacare
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi corrected a reporter Thursday who called Democrats’ health care law “Obamacare.” “First of all, it’s called the ‘Affordable Care Act,’ ” the California Democrat said after a reporter asked about House GOP efforts to try to tweak the law. Democrats, who just a couple of years ago were happy to call President Obama’s signature achievement Obamacare, now are
Washington Times
Jul 07 2013
News
Republicans demand action on student loan interest rates
Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, faulted Senate Democrats on Saturday for this week's hike in student loan interest rates and urged the upper chamber to pass legislation that resolves the issue as soon as the holiday recess ends.
"For too long, politicians have been in charge of setting these rates, and we keep coming back to cliffs and deadlines like this one," Jenkins said in the GOP
CNN (Online News)
Jun 06 2023
Headline Roundup
Fact Check: Nikki Haley's 2024 CNN Town Hall
GOP Presidential candidate Nikki Haley spoke at a CNN (Lean Left bias) Town Hall in Iowa on Sunday, prompting reactionary coverage across the spectrum.
“White Governor”: Right-rated sources highlighted a CNN panelist’s mislabeling of Haley’s race. Bakari Sellers criticized Haley’s handling of racial tensions as South Carolina governor in 2015, calling her a “white governor from the Deep
CNN Fact Check
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New York Post (News)
Nov 19 2012
News
McCain vs. Obama, the sequel
Barack Obama has said nothing directly about whom hell appoint to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, but he sent what the political world is regarding as a clear signal when he emphatically vouched for Susan Rices integrity last week.
If Obama does nominate Rice, the current U.N. ambassador and his longtime friend, it will create a very public showdown between the president
Salon