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Senator Addison Mitchell McConnell, R-KY, was born on February 20, 1942, the same year as his former Senate colleague, Joe Biden. This makes him exactly nine months older than the current pretender-in-chief. The comparisons don’t end there. Both went to law school and quickly entered government. In fact, Mitch McConnell has occupied high office in the federal government almost continually since the Nixon administration, so both men have been in government for half a century. Some might say that’s about enough; few would say that it isn’t. That being said, the differences are stark. McConnell has been a standout in...

The big news for the GOP majority on Capitol Hill last week came as a tweet — and it was not from President Trump. Matt Drudge, the proprietor of The Drudge Report, the conservative website which played a leading role in the rise of the new president, raised eyebrows with this note: “Republican Party should be sued for fraud. No discussion of tax cuts now. Just lots of crazy. Back to basics, guys!”

Republicans are ramping up for a fresh fight against Obamacare in the new year, banking on Democratic support to repeal a key component of the law. Republicans have slowed their anti-Obamacare drumbeat in recent months, with their success in the midterm elections, President Obama’s executive action on immigration, government funding and end-of-year business dominating the GOP agenda. But come early 2015, Republicans will restart their push to repeal the 2.3 percent tax on medical devices that kicked in last year as part of the Affordable Care Act. And with the GOP controlling both chambers of Congress in January — and...

(CNSNews.com) - Federal spending bills approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives have increased the national debt by more than $1 trillion dollars in just 10 months. Republicans won a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the November 2010 elections and took control of the House on Jan. 5, 2011, when the chamber convened and elected Rep. John Boehner (R.-Ohio) as speaker. But the Republican-controlled House did not gain a veto power over federal spending until March 4, 2011. That was the expiration date of the continuing resolution (CR) that the lame-duck Democrat-controlled Congress approved in December 2010....

Nancy Pelosi has "no regrets," after serving as one of the most flamboyant Speakers in American history. I have regrets. I recall her saying back in 2007, when she took over the House, that she, "had the gavel now," and "the power." It was a very dark day in American history when Ms. Pelosi was elected by the very same media and socialist electorate who would later, unthinkably, promote Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States. Let's all take a breath and a sigh of relief as we watch our American Evita return to her 25 million...

Republicans are gaining confidence that they can take back control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections. WSJ’s Jerry Seib discusses the growing optimism and how realistic it is. See the Video Here

OPEN LETTER to the 2009 Republican Congress

<p>WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.</p> <p>The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.</p>

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