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18 Apr 2013, 6:40 am
By: Manu Raju and Carrie Budoff Brown and Anna Palmer (POLITICO) April 17, 2013 05:03 AM EDT The meeting was supposed to be a half-hour update for immigration reform proponents — but they weren’t about to let the Democratic senators get off that easily. [read post]
18 Apr 2013, 6:37 am
.), the top GOP member on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee. [read post]
18 Apr 2013, 6:27 am
The question is, will his support for the far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s immigration system alienate the conservative wing of the party and damage Rubio’s chances at higher office, or will it help cement his position as a leading Republican candidate for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination? [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 10:38 am
It's easy to pick on folks like San Fran Nan who admonished her fellows to pass the bill to learn what's in it, but what excuse do these rocket surgeons have?" [read post]
16 Apr 2013, 6:44 am
The super-liberal Madison authorities go in for this show-your-papers business to thwart the freedom of individuals to associate with each other over music and beer, but let the GOP at the state level require IDs for voting and they'll say we've descended into a police state. [read post]
15 Apr 2013, 10:18 pm
On April 15, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, along with House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Charles Grassley, released a 68-page report alleging that DOJ Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez - now President Obama’s nominee to be Secretary of Labor - brokered a quid pro quo deal in which the City of St. [read post]
15 Apr 2013, 7:07 am
Senate against GOP incumbent Scott Brown... said Warren already has won huge support from progressives for her recent bold questioning of financial regulators who she said are protecting big banks over families. [read post]
12 Apr 2013, 1:40 pm
According to a recent in-depth look at what journalist Isabel MacDonald calls "The GOP's Drug-Testing Dragnet," it's also about money – and lots of it. [read post]
11 Apr 2013, 10:07 am
"A professor... appears to have used a fall semester 2012 political science class to deliver sustained and angered attacks on Republicans, who he characterized as old, white, racist, and 'losers.'" [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 7:38 pm
Of course McConnell sees the creation of the recording as a "left-wing, Nixon-esque plot" against the GOP leader... as usual - trying hard to play the victim in the matter. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 5:51 pm
., a member of the bipartisan Gang of Eight trying to develop a comprehensive bill, was supposed to brief his GOP colleagues on the specifics of their plan Wednesday. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 11:05 am
According to a recent in-depth look at what journalist Isabel MacDonald calls "The GOP's Drug-Testing Dragnet," it's also about money – and lots of it. [read post]
9 Apr 2013, 9:10 am
7 Apr 2013, 7:26 pm
Though I understand that there are political motivations behind the GOP's rather recent about-face in favor of meaningful comprehensive immigration reform, it's still noteworthy and encouraging to see this type of bipartisan partnership which I wholeheartedly believe will benefit our country.There are at least three major pieces of immigration reform:Legalization of the 11+ million foreign nationals currently out of status in the United States,Creation of a guest worker program for future… [read post]
6 Apr 2013, 5:06 am
So it won't bother me a lot if Byrne grants become a permanent casualty of the sequester.The drug task force network was a mess in Texas and I bet other states will find, just like we did, that once they're gone, their absence will solve more problems than it creates.See a sampling of the many past Grits posts on Byrne grants and drug task forcesHyping Harm: Media should welcome, not decry Byrne grant cutsTexas' Tulia Lesson: Dems should join GOP in abandoning failed drug task force… [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 9:20 am
In 2012, as many noted, House Democratic candidates got more votes across the country than House Republicans, but the GOP easily held the House. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 6:15 am
There has been some speculation that GOP leaders might bypass committee hearings to avoid Democratic attempts to cause Republicans political problems during any extended debate over immigration. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm
Clearly, there is a nationwide GOP push to continue to try to rig the system. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 2:17 pm
If he treats Social Security--which doesn't have anything to do with the deficit--as one of the cards he can "trade" to the right-wing Republican crowd for some kind of a "grand deal" (of undefined necessity), he will destroy the gains of Roosevelt's New Deal for petty concessions from the entrenched GOP that intends to dismantle the New Deal. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 8:31 am
Don Young (R-Ark.) who recently attracted unwanted attention to the GOP in an interview in which he reminisced about his family's ranch hiring wetbacks. [read post]
