Over the last four years, the Democratic Majority in the House took courageous action on behalf of America’s middle class to create jobs and save the country from the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. Our Members and candidates ran remarkable campaigns led by the superb leadership of DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen. The
Random thoughts on this early morning of election day. Voter turnout should be highest in decades for a midterm GOP will most likely get 60 to 65 House seats that might be a conservative number (pun intended) Will not be a vote for the Grand Old Party, but a vote against current, progressive agenda and
Representative John Boehner is promising to at least attempt to initiate a 72 hour waiting period on all House bills to allow the American public a chance to read the bill online before the House votes. In addition, each bill must cite Constitutional authority and there are murmurings of stipulating some means of paying for
Government cannot inject a single dollar into the economy that it has not first taken out of the very same economy. — Rep. Tom McClintock of California Floor Speech given in the House Chamber on June 15, 2010. and again, July 22, 2010 on the Unemployment Spending Bill Finally, a voice of reason in Washington,
You got that right! While watching the House debate on Health Care Reform today I heard this comment from the chair, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., frequently as he sought to quell the contentiousness present on the House floor during several procedural challenges prior to the actual vote on the controversial health care bill. It seems,