Politico reported yesterday, “The highly anticipated vote Wednesday to repeal the health care reform bill will make headlines and count as a promise kept by House Republicans. . . . Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will try to keep the Senate from becoming the place where the repeal bill goes to die. . . . […]

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  A story that’s been under the radar recently is the impact of the Obama administration’s delay in relaxing its drilling moratorium from last year. In an editorial discussing the release of the report from President Obama’s commission on the causes of last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, The Wall Street Journal writes, “The commission […]

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The new Congress that includes the 63 new House Republicans and 13 new Senate Republicans who were elected in November were sworn in yesterday, but the Democrats who were so roundly repudiated by the American people seem determined to continue the behaviors that got them in trouble in the first place. Yesterday, several Democrat senators […]

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The New York Times reports today, “A band of Senate Democrats signaled on Monday that it would press forward when Congress convenes this week with a proposal to curtail filibusters and other methods of slowing the chamber’s work . . . . Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, said that he intended to call […]

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  As the 112th Congress begins this week, the key question is whether President Obama and the Democrat majority in the Senate will listen to the clear message sent by the American people in November. As Sen.-elect Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) explains in this week’s Republican Address, “For Republicans, the start of the 112th Congress on […]

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CNN reported yesterday, “Senate Republicans mounted a counter-attack Sunday against ratifying a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia this year, trying to put off a vote that Democrats say they will win if it is held. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky led the way, telling CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ that members of […]

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Reuters reports, “Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled an earmark-laden spending bill that would fund the entire U.S. government, and Republicans who have renounced the pet spending projects quickly vowed to oppose it. The 2,000-page spending bill, months overdue, would enable President Barack Obama to tighten financial oversight, subsidize college tuition bills and move forward with […]

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In the last couple of days, even more prominent conservatives and conservative organizations have announced their support for the tax framework negotiated by Republicans with the White House that prevents taxes from going up in January. Last night, FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe wrote in a letter to senators, “I am writing today to offer our […]

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As more people have an opportunity to analyze the framework for the deal on preventing tax hikes worked out between the White House and Republicans in Congress, more recommendations of support are coming, especially from conservatives and business leaders. To begin with, Gallup writes today that “[t]wo-thirds of Americans (66%) favor extending the 2001/2003 tax […]

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Last evening, President Obama announced a framework for an agreement with Republican Congressional negotiators on preventing tax increases next year. What’s striking about this agreement, though, is how far Obama moved toward the Republican position and how much frustration this has generated among liberal Democrats. The Wall Street Journal outlines the deal. “President Barack Obama […]

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