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WASHINGTON -- The newly muscular House Republicans are poised to vote Wednesday to overturn President Obama's health care overhaul -- a move that is largely symbolic because the Democratic-controlled Senate is poised to ignore it while Obama is certain to veto it should it somehow pass through Congress. But that obstacle hasn't deterred Republicans who are determined to chisel away at the law through attempts to deny funding for parts of the legislation as they go into effect in the coming years. "The Congress can do better in terms of replacing Obamacare with common-sense reforms that will bring down the...

My computer is doing it's automatic malware update thing, so this post is slow going for me. Go to the link and click on Live Stream. It's on TV live right now if you're near a TV set. Lt. Col. West was announced nearly last. I could swear I heard a smattering of applause. It was pretty silent through most of the introductions.

After the Democrats' shellacking at the polls in November, liberal pundits began evoking the Republican Congress that took power after a similar electoral defeat during President Harry Truman's first term. The "do nothing" Congress lasted just two years; in 1948, the Republicans ceded control of the Hill, and Truman was narrowly re-elected president. President Obama would like to replay this script and will take every opportunity to tag the incoming House Republican majority as obstructionist, irresponsible and out of touch. Yet in some respects, the 80th Congress set an example from which the 112th Congress could benefit. Republicans took control...

If the assignment of House committee chairs provided a letdown to Tea Party activists, especially on Appropriations with Hal Rogers, the assignment of newly-open seats on critical committees looks more like a win. Twenty-two freshmen Representatives have won seats on Appropriations, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, and most of those won their elections with heavy Tea Party backing: Most of the 22 House Republican freshmen-to-be selected to sit on much-coveted, A-list committees won their races with Tea Party backing.The House Republican Steering Committee last week added the incoming members to the rosters of four powerful committees:...

Mrs. Pelosi is the perfect symbol of strident resistance to the will of the American people that Democrats seem eager to project. She can be counted on to fight to the last trench to defend all of the wretched excesses - or as Democrats stubbornly call them, "accomplishments" - of the rejected 111th Congress. She is fully in tune with the hard-line liberal rump leftover from the previous governing majority and can better give President Obama the opportunity to continue along the path that has seen both his party's fortunes and his job approval ratings fall from historic heights. Mrs....

Friday November 5, 2010 Rep. Smith: New U.S. House Arguably Most Pro-Life Ever By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., November 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tuesday’s historic elections sent the message that more Americans want their lawmakers to consistently defend vulnerable human life and reject the president’s radical pro-abortion agenda, said the chamber's most prominent pro-life leader.Widespread discontent with the administration's progressive agenda, particularly on abortion-funding health care, spurred voters to launch a strong pro-life Majority into the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections.   “The American people have spoken, and replaced 38 pro-abortion Members with pro-life Members and replaced...

Synopsis: 6 Southern states will gain seats in the US House of Reps after 2010 census. Texas will gain the most. Link below