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Tony Lee Breitbart.com Big Government 27 Apr 2014 Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), the House GOP Conference Chair, said that amnesty legislation could come to the floor by August. Her comments come after multiple House Republicans have ramped up support for amnesty legislation and discussed bills they plan to introduce in the coming months. “I […] April 27th, 2014 | Tags: amnesty, DREAM Act, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Rep. Joe Barton, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Rand Paul, Speaker John Boehner | Category: Arizona, Congress, Elections, Health Care, Illegal Immigration, Politics, Progressives, Texas | Comments are closed
Neil Stevens RedState 10/8/2011 Net Neutrality goes to court. Great news, too: Verizon’s preferred venue won the lottery, and the Net Neutrality fight will happen in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. This is, of course, the same circuit that slapped down Net Neutrality last time in Comcast v FCC. Oh, but here’s a big […] October 9th, 2011 | Tags: Comcast v. FCC, Connect America Fund, federal subsidies, Julius Genachowski, national broadband, net neutrality, Rep. Joe Barton, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Court of Appeals for DC, Universal Service Fund reform, Verizon | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Justice, FCC, Internet, Taxes, technology | Comments are closed
Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 7/5/2011 A standalone effort to reverse federal standards that had the effect of banning cheap incandescent bulbs failed earlier this week, angering conservatives who saw the issue as symbolic of the nanny-state regulatory approach in Congress. However, a similar measure added as an amendment to another bill passed by voice vote earlier […] July 15th, 2011 | Tags: incandescent light bulbs, President George W. Bush, Rep. Joe Barton, Rep. Michael Burgess M.D. | Category: 10th Amendment, Congress, Department of Energy, legislation | Comments are closed
Nanny State Wins: Light Bulb Ban Repeal Fails in House Warner Todd Huston Emerging Corruption 7/13/2011 …this little bill is the best example of the sort of nanny statism that freedom-loving Americans are incensed by. The repeal should have easily been passed but the GOP could not muster the votes to do it and, worse, […] July 13th, 2011 | Tags: Energy Secretary Stephen Chu, HR 2417, incandescent light bulbs, Rep. Joe Barton, Rep. Michael Burgess M.D., The Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act | Category: Congress, Department of Energy, Energy, Environment, Progressives | Comments are closed
Julia Angwin and Jennifer Valentino-Devries The Wall Street Journal 4/22/2011 Apple Inc.’s iPhones and Google Inc.’s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal—intensifying concerns over privacy and the widening trade in personal data. Google and Apple are gathering location […] April 23rd, 2011 | Tags: "evercookie", Android, Apple, Google, iPhone, Rep. Edward Markey, Rep. Joe Barton, Samy Kamkar, smartphone apps | Category: Congress, Right to Privacy, technology | Comments are closed
CAJ note: Last night we joined one million households across the country on Rep. Michele Bachmann’s tele-townhall. Bachmann referred to this article [below] by Kevin Bogardus during the call. The Congresswoman said that Speaker Pelosi has blocked debate on the bill and that this legislation is a shell. It was an aviation bill [which […] August 10th, 2010 | Tags: H.R. 1586, H.R. 1589, Nancy Pelosi, November 2010, Rep. Joe Barton, Rep. Louis Gohmert, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Rep. Steve King | Category: "Stimulus" program, Congress, corruption, Education, Elections, Federal spending, fundraising, TAKE ACTION!, Taxes, Unions, US Constitution | Comments are closed
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