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What Happens If the Bush Tax Cuts Expire
Tweet Share on Facebook November 30, 2010 Comment (28)The folks at Americans for Tax Reform, a non-partisan coalition of taxpayers and taxpayer groups who oppose all tax increases, released Tuesday a helpful reminder of just what is at stake in the debate over extending the current tax rates, which are set to expire at year’s end.
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How Republicans Can Repeal Health Reform
Tweet Share on Facebook November 29, 2010 Comment (23)It is imperative that the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives, as one of its earliest acts, holds a clean, straight up or down vote on the repeal of Obamacare.
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Republicans Must Stand With Obama on North Korea Crisis
Tweet Share on Facebook November 29, 2010 Comment (5)The disclosure of heretofore confidential diplomatic cables and other information on the WikiLeaks site, while bad news for the United States, still pales in comparison to recent events on the Korean peninsula.
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Lincoln and the First Official Thanksgiving
Tweet Share on Facebook November 24, 2010 CommentThough the Thanksgiving festival was first celebrated by the earliest colonists in North America, it was not until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln in 1863, according to a number of sources, that it was first established as a national event. The first observance of the national holiday, on the last Thursday in November, came just one week after the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
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Poll: Tax Cuts Top Americans' Lame Duck Agenda
Tweet Share on Facebook November 23, 2010 Comment (6)The latest Gallup poll finds that most Americans say "it is important" for Congress to pass legislation that will keep tax rates from increasing after the first of the year during the lame duck session. As Gallup put it, "taxes appear to be Americans' highest priority."
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Newt Gingrich's 5 Goals for America
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2010 Comment (8)Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who may or may not be running for president, is lately busy explaining to people that the Republicans' decisive win in 2010 is only the first step toward reclaiming liberty in America and that, to be successful, “the conservative movement must move from a rejection model of conservatism to a replacement model of conservatism.” As part of this he identifies five major goals, which he outlined in a speech he gave recently in Dallas to the Institute for Policy innovation. Reaching back to the American War for Independence, the setting of his latest series of books, Gingrich said, “Think of the Declaration of Independence as an act of rejection.”
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How Thorough Will Boehner's Reform of Congress Be?
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2010 CommentComing into the majority on the heels of its successful “Pledge to America,” the new House Republican leadership is likely to consider making some major reforms to the way the chamber does its business. Incoming Speaker John Boehner has already indicated this is very much on his mind, though how deeply he wants those reforms to go has yet to be spelled out.
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Jack Kingston Runs for Appropriations Chair
Tweet Share on Facebook November 19, 2010 Comment (21)U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, long rumored to be a "dark house" candidate for chairmanship of the House Committee on Appropriations, has official thrown his hat into the ring.
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Obama Administration Officials in Republican Sights
Tweet Share on Facebook November 19, 2010 Comment (7)If one thing is clear, it is that, with the House of Representatives under Republican control, the oversight of the Obama administration's activities is going to be a lot more vigorous than it has been over the last two years.
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End Federal Funding for NPR
Tweet Share on Facebook November 19, 2010 Comment (10)As promised on its “You Cut” website, where ordinary Americans can vote online or by cell phone “on spending cuts that you want to see the House enact,” the House GOP continues to move ahead on ideas to cut spending.
