WASHINGTON (AP) -- A California congressman says he won't continue his push to honor Tiger Woods with a Congressional Gold Medal.
Democratic Rep. Joe Baca introduced legislation in March that called for the golfer to be recognized for promoting good sportsmanship and breaking down barriers in the sport.
Baca' [...]
The Speaker Emeritus will not be going after the open 8th District congressional seat:
“I want to continue the work I’ve done for the people of my district and the state, in trying to improve their quality of life. I’m aware of all the issues we deal with here at [...]
This was emailed to me by my father, who probably got it somewhere else:
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives, and Congress shall make no [...]From the Congressman’s blog:
I think this “jobs summit” is an admission by the President that the first stimulus hasn’t worked. Remember, he promised us that if it was immediately passed by Congress, unemployment would not go above 8%. Now economists are telling us we are in the midst of [...]
U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Banking Committee, made the following comments today in reaction to news reports that the White House is considering using the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to pay for a new stimulus bill.
“Congress authorized TARP last fall to [...]
The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations. --' [...]
Sen. Roy Herron may have a bit of real competition for the Democratic nomination for the 8th District Congressional seat:
Mercer is also armed with pretty politically potent last name — at least in Jackson. His mother, Shirlene, is a community activist who was involved in the desegregation of the [...]
It is BLACKMAIL!
Obama’s “Gang of 39” has gone Too Far!
Obama Regime “Blackmails” Congress
by J. D. Longstreet
Remember a few weeks ago, I wrote of Obama’s Chicago style politics? Well, then you were not blind-sided by the EPA’s move to declare their regulation of so-called greenhouse gases.
When you [...]
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently floated the idea of increasing the federal tax on gasoline as a way to meet Congress’ growing list of transportation projects, but most Americans are cool to the idea.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 15% of adults favor raising the [...]
From Peter Beinart:
It was Sept. 20, 2001. The nation was in agony, and George W. Bush stood before a joint session of Congress, telling Americans where to direct their rage. “Americans are asking, ‘Who attacked our country?’” Bush declared early in his remarks. “The evidence we have gathered all [...]
Let’s take a look see at just how accurate Runnin’ Reid’s statement actually is, shall we? History is a funny thing, don’cha know.
Soon after the war ended, it was a Republican-controlled Congress that rammed through the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution that, among other things, abolished slavery, [...]
From the AP:
Chris Hester, who claims he was wearing a neck brace at the time, says Pickering yelled at him and pulled him from his car as he tried to leave.
Pickering says he confronted the coach because Hester verbally abused his son so badly the child was crying uncontrollably. [...]
From the Dickson Herald:
Despite rumblings of Sen. Doug Jackson’s interest in running for Rep. John Tanner’s open seat in Congress, Jackson confirmed Monday morning that he has decided not to campaign for the position.
“The long and short of it is that we’ve made a decision not to run,” Jackson [...]
Congressional Quarterly on “MD candidates”:
Democratic media consultant John Rowley said candidates from the medical community, for the most part, run the gamut this cycle.
“You have doctors who are crazy Republicans, conservative Democrats and progressive Democrats. Some are for and some against health insurance reform,” he said.
And it’s unclear so [...]
Harold Ford Jr. former Tennessee Congressman and now head of the Democratic Leadership Council, co-wrote a piece of jive with Louis Gerstner and Eli Broad about the Race to the Top stuff at the WSJ on November 24. The piece contained the usual stuff – must add [...]
Tom Bohs notes his involvement in the 8th District Congressional Race:
Capping the Herron diatribe was an e-mail supporting Fincher over the signature of Tommy Hopper. Remember him? If there is a tougher political adviser anywhere on Earth, I don’t want to meet him. If Hopper is jumping on the [...]
The constantly email blasting Republican Congressional Campaign spokesman Andy Sere has a retort for Roy Herron’s retort of him basically calling Herron gay:
“His latest foray into a race out of his league is only three days old, and Roy Herron is already rattled,” Sere said. “He’s foaming [...]
From the proprietor of the Bike Pedlar in an email to Post Politics:
There has been quite a bit of speculation about me and whether or not I’m running for Bart Gordon’s congressional seat, so I thought I’d send you a quick email filling you in on the details.
Since [...]
From Kyle Trygstad:
“Congressman Tanner thought about not running two years ago — it has nothing to do with whether he thought he could win re-election,” said Hickman. “We did a poll this summer and he was in very good shape.”
Hickman notes that Tanner won the district “when Bill Clinton [...]
Stacey Campfield seems to think it would be a good idea for the Speaker Emeritus to make a play for the Tanner open seat in the 8th:
I don’t know why he would want to return to the state house. The odds of him returning to the speakers chair are [...]
