Showing posts with label Kevin McCarthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kevin McCarthy. Show all posts
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Pressure on the House GOP reconciliation bill holdouts got them all, save one, to flip at 03:23 this morning, finally allowing the bill to come to the floor for debate

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Thomas Massie was originally for bringing the bill to the floor for debate, then switched to against that after Trump got testy with him lol...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

This would be quite the payback to Trump for Jan 6, 2021 lol

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 The House Speaker election is January 3, 2025. You've got 34 Republicans pissed off at passage of the American Relief Act on December ...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Third continuing resolution since September passes Congress to fund federal government into March

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WASHINGTON — Congress passed a bill on Thursday that would prevent a partial government shutdown this weekend and keep federal funds flowin...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has announced his intention to resign at the end of the year

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 Story here . Combined with the Santos expulsion last week, the House GOP majority now goes down to 220 effective Jan 1, just a seven seat ...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

How Kevin McCarthy was like Obamacare

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  Republicans repealed him but didn't have a replacement.   Scalise drops speaker bid as House devolves into further turmoil... Rep. Jim...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Nancy Mace has it both ways

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CNN: Everyone elected to office from California is a Democrat

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Wanting-it-both-ways DeSantis strikes again

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  Ron DeSantis: "I Was One Of the Guys That Opposed McCarthy Before It Was Cool" : At the same time, though, I look at guys like ...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Republicans barely control one half of the legislative branch and eight of 'em decide to eat each other instead of to live to fight again in 45 days

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 Brilliant, just brilliant. McCarthy removed as speaker 216-210. The roll call vote is here . Eight Republicans joined 208 Democrats to depo...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

US House passes 45-day government funding bill 335-91 minus Ukraine aid

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  The House measure would fund government at current 2023 levels for 45 days, through Nov. 17, setting up another potential crisis if they f...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

The biggest turd at the Department of Justice is Merrick Garland

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 When Obama nominated that guy for the Supreme Court, it was like throwing a Molotov Cocktail at it. The federal prosecutor tasked with inve...
Friday, June 2, 2023

Debt ceiling compromise clears the US Senate 63-36, Republican Senators extract pledge from Chucky Schumer for more defense spending which amounts to a pig in a poke so 31 vote against it anyway

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Hello, all spending bills must originate in the House. Some Senate Republicans are pretending you don't know that. What a joke.   CNBC :...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

The US House passed the debt ceiling compromise 314-117 this evening

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  Seventy-one Republicans and 46 Democrats voted against the bill in the House — mostly liberals and conservatives protesting specific pro...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Nice to see the GOP going to war with the US Chamber of Commerce

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 . . . not over immigration, but hey, I'll take it.
Thursday, January 5, 2023

NFL Draft goes to only seven rounds

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  GOP leader McCarthy loses 10th House speaker vote as far right Republicans dig in -- CNBC
Thursday, November 17, 2022

Conservatism in Congress is insignificant: Some revolt, huh?

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  McConnell Overcomes Senate GOP Leadership Challenge in 37-10 Vote  Kevin McCarthy beats far-right challenger 188-31 to lead House GOP
Monday, April 25, 2022

Fake Native American says Kevin McCarthy is a liar, and a traitor

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  Warren: "Kevin McCarthy is a liar and a traitor"   C'mon, man, nobody believes Kevin McCarthy is that competent.
Saturday, January 5, 2019

Ann Coulter says she agrees with AOC: Raise taxes on the rich

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Ann just wants to punish the Koch Brothers in the process, but there's a better reason to agree. Good government acts like a curb...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Pro-Democrat Politico wouldn't write a story like this if the Blue Wave hadn't fizzled already

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How Republicans could (barely) hang on to the House : [P]rivately, even a few Democrats — say the GOP could still hang on, if only by a...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

There were 167 votes against the omnibus in the US House: 90 Republican, 77 Democrat

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The House Roll Call is here , the Senate here . There were 32 votes against in the Senate: 23 Republican, 8 Democrat, and Bernie Sanders. ...