John Boehner hires Barry Jackson

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has hired Barry Jackson as his new chief of staff to replace Paula Nowakowski who passed away earlier this month. Although Jackson has a history with Boehner, this is an encouraging sign as Jackson was heavily involved in drafting the Republican’s Contract with America. Could this mean that House [...]

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The future is Cao? Let’s hope not anymore!

Tell me it ain’t so. Not only did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) eked out passage on the health care bill, but she did it with one lone Republican help: Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao (R-LA). The vote was 220-215.
Remember Cao? The first Vietnamese American to be elected to Congress and one of the few Asian [...]

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Kill (health care) Bill, Vol. 1

Ten thousand conservatives are in Washington, D.C. today, at the Capitol, to protest the 1,990-page House health care bill introduced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was the one that hatched this idea and it gained so much momentum that other Republican politicians came out to speak at the rally, including Minority [...]

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Unlike Vegas, what happens in Ohio, stays in Washington

The White House is shifting into semi-panic mode after this new Quinnipiac University poll about President Obama’s diminishing approval rating in Ohio:
President Barack Obama gets a lackluster 49 – 44 percent approval rating in Ohio, considered by many to be the most important swing state in a presidential election, according to a Quinnipiac University poll [...]

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Cap-and-trade passes House 219-212, thanks to eight dissenting Republicans

I’m sure you are curious as to which Republican House members sided with the Democrat majority:
Mary Bomo Mac (CA-45)
Mike Castle (DE)
Mark Kirk (IL-10)
Frank A. LoBiondo (NJ-02)
Chris Smith (NJ-04)
Leonard Lance (NJ-07)
John M. McHugh (NY-23)
Dave Reichert (WA-08)
Well, at least Minority Leader Boehner tried to “filibuster” it.
Let’s hope the outcome in the Senate is more encouraging.

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House Republicans to vote Nay on stimulus

House Minority Leader John Boehner urges his GOP colleagues to oppose the stimulus bill as it comes to the floor for a vote on Wednesday. This comes even as President Obama took time to meet congressional Republicans to win their support on the $825 billion package.

It’s a good sign. The Republicans in Washington are finally [...]

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Stimulus package not large enough?!

Maybe columnist Bob Herbert is trying to leave NYT and get a job at the administration:
If anything, the stimulus package is not large enough. Less than 24 hours after Mr. Boehner’s televised exercise in obstructionism, the heavy-equipment company Caterpillar announced that it was cutting 20,000 jobs, Sprint Nextel said it was eliminating 8,000, and Home [...]

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