Posts Tagged ‘steny hoyer’
Steny Hoyer has decided Congress doesn’t need to pass a budget this year. It’s just too darned complicated to pass a budget when there’s all that darned debt. Rather than being faced with the possibility of increasing the debt even more, or making painful budget cuts during an election year, Hoyer is punting until later [...]
Tags: budget, steny hoyer
Posted in 2010 Elections, 2010 US Senate Races, economic-policy, Ethics, Idiot of the day, National Debt | No Comments »
People all over the country are really bothered by the fact that Senator Jim Bunning shut down the federal government. I mean, people are really bothered by this: Just a few more months of his idiotic ranting and he is finally finished!! and Jim Bunning has the intelligence of a dead gnat, and that’s being [...]
Tags: balanced budget, harry reid, jim bunning, obama, paygo, steny hoyer
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Bernie Sanders had this to offer to the health care debate: There’s a back story to the town meeting protests. The health care industry in America is doing everything it can tostop reform. Incredibly, it has spent $130 million just in the last quarter trying to influence Congress. The Washington Post has reported that $1.4 [...]
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October 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Nancy Pelosi famously denied Democrats had any responsibility for the financial crisis that we are dealing with right now. She stills sticks with that fantasy. However, I don’t think too many people believe her. Today the Washingtonwatch blog listed the members of Congress who voted for the 2000 Consolidated Appropriations Act which allowed trading credit [...]
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In her speech to rally the troops to vote for the Rescue package, Nancy Pelosi accepted no responsibility for past actions by either herself or any member of her party. She put the entire blame on a situation that has festered for thirty years solely on Republicans. And, then, to top it off, gave a [...]
Tags: bipartisan support, blame game, caucus, congress, democrats, legislation, majority party, minority party, nancy pelosi, republicans, steny hoyer
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