September 24, 2015
By Washington Post
...Looming (click here) are another possible government shutdown and another round of high-stakes negotiations with President Obama, and a group of hard-line conservatives in his own party is openly threatening the Republican leader’s ouster if they don’t get their way.
By Washington Post
...Looming (click here) are another possible government shutdown and another round of high-stakes negotiations with President Obama, and a group of hard-line conservatives in his own party is openly threatening the Republican leader’s ouster if they don’t get their way.
But at least there’s this: His job might be so thankless, no one else wants to do it.
Rumblings about Boehner’s imminent demise, stoked by a GOP member’s July proposal to remove Boehner from the speaker’s chair, are tempered by the fact that no rivals have emerged to challenge Boehner.
“The members who are advocating or conspiring to take down the speaker haven’t put forward a horse of their own,” said Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa. “I mean, who’s their champion?”
Not Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield. The House majority leader is widely viewed as the only viable option for succeeding Boehner. But McCarthy has continued to stand behind Boehner, and his ongoing defense serves as a rejection of overtures from some conservatives who have been privately suggesting that, if they succeeded in a coup attempt on the speaker, they would support the genial Californian in a smooth succession....
The US House is currently in session debating changes in environmental review laws. They are attempting to control the Executive Branch making the environment a political issue. The House is overreaching and it's proceedings are unconstitutional.
The US House is currently in session debating changes in environmental review laws. They are attempting to control the Executive Branch making the environment a political issue. The House is overreaching and it's proceedings are unconstitutional.
