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Boehner Wants to Pass Spending Cuts With GOP Alone
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Sometimes in politics and legislation, whether you win is less important than how you win. That's the dilemma facing House Speaker John Boehner as he tries to round up the votes to pass a fast-approaching spending compromise and avert a partial government shutdown by week's end. Boehner, R-Ohio, wants the overwhelming majority of those votes to come from his fellow Republicans, even if dozens of easily attainable Democratic votes could help carry the budget bill to victory. The goal complicates Boehner's task, and possibly could push the bill farther to the right. It motivates ...
GOP House Member Challenges Senate to Pass Cuts
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A newly elected Republican congresswoman says senators should confront President Barack Obama on his veto threat and approve $61 million in spending cuts. Freshman Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington state issued the challenge in the Republicans' radio address Saturday. She said senators should "step up" and follow the House to rein in federal spending. But the House bill does not have enough support to pass the Senate. It's unclear what progress can be made toward compromise with Congress headed on a 10-day vacation. Beutler accused Obama of staying on the sidelines ...
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Alabama House Bill 56: The Immigrant Trespassing Law Explained
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsA new bill aimed at curbing illegal immigration is causing controversy in Alabama. House Bill 56, modeled on similarly controversial immigration legislation in Arizona, passed the Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee today. That means it will move on to debate by the full House of Representatives as early as Thursday. Here's the lowdown on HB 56, which prompted opposition rallies in Montgomery even before it reached the committee vote. It would require immigration status checks for workers The Montgomery Advertiser reports that HB 56 would mandate use of the federal ...
Opinion: The GOP's Dangerous Attack on Planned Parenthood
By not in system - AOL NewsIn 1916, one woman's strength, determination and conviction helped open the door for hundreds of millions of women worldwide to plan their own pregnancies. As a nation, we have made great strides since Margaret Sanger opened that first family planning clinic in New York City nine decades ago, and Planned Parenthood is still at the forefront of the fight for reproductive health and rights for all women. Our services provide a lifeline for 3 million people every year. One in five American women receives care from a Planned Parenthood health center at some point in her life, and 90 percent of ...
Five Budget Cuts That Could Be Harmful to Your Health
By Andrew Schneider - AOL NewsHard-fought-for laws and regulations to save lives and the environment will be gutted or eliminated in budget cuts passed by the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives or ordered by President Barack Obama's team, experts say. Public health and environmental experts say it's indisputable that lives will be lost if these cuts are made: 1) The Consumer Product Safety Commission. The commission is scheduled next week to roll out its long-awaited public database on the safety of consumer products. For the first time, it will allow shoppers to quickly determine whether products they ...
Sheila Jackson Lee: 6 Wild Allegations From the Daily Caller Profile
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsRep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, is the subject of a long profile by conservative writer Jonathan Strong at The Daily Caller, and, perhaps not surprisingly, the picture Strong paints isn't pretty. The Daily Caller is a news and opinion site founded by Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel, former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney. Jackson Lee did not speak to Strong on the record (or at all), so the profile is based largely on statements made by her former and current staffers, not all of them named. While the congresswoman is a frequent target of right-wing complaints, she ...
Mike Pence: 5 Facts About the Congressman Who Wants to Defund Planned Parenthood
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsThe House of Representatives approved an amendment today that, should it pass the Senate, would ban the Planned Parenthood organization from receiving federal funds. The so-called Pence amendment, passed in the House by a vote of 240-185, is the pet project of Republican Congressman Mike Pence, who, according to Politico, "is on a one-man crusade to deny all federal funding to the group" that provides a range of health services to women, including abortions. While it's doubtful that the bill will pass through a Senate still controlled by the Democrats, as a rising star in the conservative ...
What Is the Pence Amendment, and What Does It Mean for Planned Parenthood?
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsAfter a lengthy and emotional debate about abortion Thursday night, the House of Representatives today passed the Pence amendment to the spending bill. The Pence amendment, sponsored by Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., bans Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds. The Republican-dominated House of Representatives approved the amendment 240-185 after a debate that featured Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier recounting the story of receiving an abortion due to a complication with a pregnancy. The vote is something of a coup for Pence. As Politico said earlier this week, "Abortion-rights advocates ...
Supreme Court and Conflicts of Interest: Pressure Builds for More Transparency
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyUnited States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas just passed his fifth anniversary of silence during oral argument before the Court. During that time, he has not asked a single question of a single lawyer in a single case. And no one may force him to do so. But there is growing political and legal pressure on the justice, and the high court itself, to end a different kind of official silence; about conflicts of interest and the reasons why the justices recuse themselves (or, more pointedly, don't) from certain cases. Last month, the public accountability group Common Cause asked the ...
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