Archive for the ‘House Republicans’ Category
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Boehner Exits
Posted on October 29, 2015
(Published in The Christian Science Monitor) Buzz Lukens helped to make John Andrew Boehner. Lukens was a Republican lawmaker from the Cincinnati area who was accused of paying a mother...
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White Smoke and Paul Ryan
Posted on October 21, 2015
(Published in the Christian Science Monitor) I had just returned from my son’s baseball practice when a friend texted me with a link to the Wikipedia page about Papal White...
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After McCarthy’s Withdrawal, Keeping Calm About House Speaker Election
Posted on October 8, 2015
(Originally Published in the WSJ) Rep. Kevin McCarthy decided not to run for speaker of the House. Everybody take a deep breath. Let’s dispense with the panic. I’m sure he has his...
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Vacating the Vacation
Posted on July 30, 2015
The House is hitting the highways after passing a three-month extension of the Highway bill. In the game of chicken between the chambers of Congress, both sides blinked and the...
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51-0
Posted on June 4, 2015
Unless you are naming a post office, it’s not easy getting a House Committee to vote unanimously for any single piece of legislation. Sure it happens from time to time,...
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