Tag: spending

Fun with Farm Bill Amendments

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After all the chaos I thought I’d flag a few interesting amendments that the House took up on the Farm Bill yesterday:  ·         Rep. Chabot (R-OH) offered an amendment to repeal the Market Access Program, a corporate-welfare subsidy for agri-businesses. It failed, 98-322. ·         Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) offered an amendment to allow food stamp […]

Farm Bill is Defeated in the House!

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The House just defeated the farm bill!  I suspect that House Republican leaders had the necessary GOP votes and were relying on Democrats to give them the rest.  But that didn’t happen. Total chaos on the House floor right now.   My guess is that GOP leaders will go to Pelosi and Hoyer and ask […]

Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) tries to “Shear” Spending in the Farm Bill

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Liberal Quote of the Day

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Congress is going to debate the new farm bill soon, and it’s a whopper.  The food stamp program, which is wholly unrelated to agriculture, takes up roughly 80% of the $1 trillion bill.   Unfortunately, there’s bipartisan support for it.  As one example, here’s a recent quote from Republican Senator Thad Cochran: “[Food stamps] should […]

Jay Leno’s View on Big Sugar

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From Jay Leno: “I saw this in the paper today, the Department of Agriculture wants to use our tax money to buy 400,000 tons of sugar to limit supply and boost prices so sugar producers can pay back government loans that they could default on. You follow me here on this? We loaned them money […]

Rep. Matt Salmon on Morning Joe

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Learn Liberty: Is Student Loan Debt Forgiveness a Good Idea?

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Club for Growth President Chris Chocola talks to CBS News about the Sequester

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White House Threatens Bob Woodward

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From The Hill newspaper: Bob Woodward said Wednesday that a “very senior person” at the White House told the veteran journalist and author “you will regret” faulting the Obama administration for the present fight over sequestration.  

Oops…Did She Really Say That?

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As reported in the Washington Post, a lobbyist was quoted as saying: "The worst-case scenario for us is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens. And Republicans say: See, that wasn’t so bad.”