by Jane Yurechko | Jul 29, 2013 | Student Debt Relief, This Is The GOP
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) thinks that it is not Congress’s job to keep college affordable. That’s what she said at a House Education and the Workforce Committee markup last week of a GOP-backed bill that would prevent the U.S. Department of Education from enforcing...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 25, 2013 | This Is The GOP
Imagine a political party that keeps government from helping people, because that might lead people to support government. Imagine a political party that hurts parts of the country because those parts tend to not vote the way they want. Imagine a political party that...
by Bill Scher | Jul 23, 2013 | This Is The GOP
Republican leaders understand political reality well enough to grasp that they can't survive as the anti-immigrant party. They insist they want to pass some sort of immigration reform, just nothing "comprehensive" with too many "pages." And now they are starting to...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 22, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Trans-Pacific Partnership – the corporate sovereignty treaty – is coming and they're going to try to push it through Congress with "Fast Track." It's really, really important to pay attention to this one. You have seen what the "free trade" agreements have done to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 22, 2013 | This Is The GOP
House conservatives revealed a lot about themselves and their priorities when they passed a farm bill that did not include nutrition programs like SNAP – the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, known best as "food stamps" – but fast-tracked, without real...
by Stan Collender | Jul 18, 2013 | This Is The GOP
Make no mistake about it; House Republicans definitely prefer that a Republican be elected president. But what's been clear for years on things related to the budget has become even more obvious in recent weeks with the take-no-prisoner decisions House Republicans...
