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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Extreme Right Republicans Prove Yet Again to Be the Flea Wagging the Entire Dog (Congress) In the past two weeks alone, the House Republicans have been forced to pull two key pieces of legislation at the very last minute, due to the blow-back from the extreme right in their party. […]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ICYMI – Is There Such a Thing as Too Extreme for Lee Zeldin? Congressman Lee Zeldin has been under some heat recently for meeting with the radical fringe group – the Oath Keepers.  Zeldin has been busy trying to dodge directly answering for his associations with a group best known […]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Instead of Looking Out for NY-23, Congressman Reed Busy as Boehner Enforcer If anyone needed further proof that Congressman Tom Reed has fallen in with the Washington establishment and forgotten Western New York, The Hill reported today that Reed’s been busy carrying out John Boehner’s orders in Washington. Reed’s time […]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT – Knight’s Defense of the Confederate Battle Flag Holds up Federal Government One-Term Wonder Congressman Steve Knight and the Republican-controlled House are holding up the federal government’s budgeting and spending process – all over the Confederate battle flag. This isn’t the first time Knight has protected the flag– last year […]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ICYMI: Miami Republican congressman posits Donald Trump candidacy may be Democratic plot Miami Herald By Patricia Mazzei July 13, 2015 http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2015/07/miami-republican-congressman-posits-donald-trump-candidacy-may-be-democratic-plot.html Miami is a hotbed for phantom candidates, complete with four federal criminal convictions in two separate cases to prove it. So perhaps it’s no surprise that a local Republican […]

This year, we are sure Barbara Comstock won’t have a hard time deciding who to support for the Republican Presidential nomination. Comstock’s history of attacking women’s reproductive freedoms is even more extreme than the history of her former campaign buddy Scott Walker, who will announce his presidential bid today. In Wisconsin, Scott Walker’s law mandates […]

Despite companies like Walmart, Amazon, and Sears pulling the Confederate flag from their shelves, late last night Republican Ken Calvert (CA-42) offered an amendment that would allow the Confederate flag to be sold at national parks. Today, instead of voting to remove this symbol of hate from the U.S. Capitol – just as the South […]

*A similar release went out to more than 70 other vulnerable House Republicans. Today, Congressman John  Katko had the opportunity to remove state flags bearing the confederate battle flag from display in the United States Capitol. Instead of voting to remove this symbol of hate – just as South Carolina voted this week – Congressman […]

House Democrats successfully moved this week to restrict the display of the Confederate flag on federal lands. As House Republicans move to undo that effort and protect the Confederate battle flag, DCCC Chairman Ben Ray Luján released the following statement: “It is despicable that the day after the South Carolina legislature voted to bring the […]

Speaker Boehner & the Republican Caucus Have T-Minus 25 Legislative Days to Pass a Long-Term Highway Funding Bill, Avoid Government Shutdown & Much More After last week’s Independence Day Recess, the DCCC thought Speaker Boehner might need a refresher on the long list of items he and his Republican Caucus need to get done before […]