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Mitch PerryMay 13, 2015

President Obama’s hopes for the passage of a trade measure that would give his administration greater authority to negotiate more freely with other countries was blocked in the Senate on Tuesday, when only one Democratic senator voted to support his efforts. Obama’s goal of getting a new Asia-Pacific trade bill known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) […]

Phil AmmannFebruary 8, 2015

U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) is quitting the Congressional House leadership, POLITICO reports. The Ponte Vedra Beach Republican’s exit comes as Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), the No. 3 GOP House member, warned that anyone on the whip team who voted against procedural motions would be cut off. Scalise’s hardball strategy was to solidify control of the Republican caucus. Before […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 7, 2015

With convening of the 114th Congress and the swearing in this week of new governors and state representatives, the GOP on paper is sitting very pretty in the Capitol and the nation’s statehouses. Republicans now hold majorities in both the U.S. House and the Senate. They also hold 32 governorships (that included winning 4 new […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 7, 2015

On the first day of the new session in Congress yesterday, Alabama GOP Rep. Martha Roby introduced legislation to stop President Obama’s unilateral executive action on immigration. Called the “Prevention of Executive Amnesty Act of 2015,” the measure is intended to apply to the coming appropriation for the Department of Homeland Security, which Congress funded only until […]

Tag: Steve Scalise

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