Later today, the House is expected to vote on HR 4853 -- the “Tax-Cut-and-Stimulus” package that President Obama recently negotiated with the Senate. Since this so-called compromise bill that would extend the current tax rates for two years first came out, I have had very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, keeping the current tax rates the same will help avoid a potentially disastrous downturn in the struggling economy. On the other hand, the tax rate extensions have been combined with an add...
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An estimated 1,800 to 1,900 people gathered in and around the park's amphitheater Saturday to protest the federal government's actions, including out-of-control spending.
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U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, made heated comments Thursday in opposition to a House tax plan to reclaim bonuses received by AIG employees.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.– Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) released the following statement regarding President Obama’s executive order to use tax dollars for funding embryonic stem cell research, forcing taxpayers with moral objections to subsidize the destruction of human life at its most vulnerable stage
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A Republican congressman from Texas introduced a pair of bills Thursday that would exempt D.C. residents from federal income taxes and return most of the District to Maryland control.
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Congressional liberals are once again trying to pass legislation to give Washington, D.C. a voting representative in the House. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s D.C. Voting Rights Act of 2009 is a bad bill, which would extinguish the Constitutional difference between the District of Columbia and the 50 states. In a recent hearing on the bill, George Washington Law School professor Jonathan Turley has said that the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act is the "the most premeditatedly unconstit...
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U.S. lawmakers registered their deep disgust with the $700 billion financial rescue Wednesday in a series of symbolic votes on the House floor.
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