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House Democrats announced today that they’ll unite to table Rep. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE’s (R-Ga.) motion to oust MIKE JOHNSON as speaker of the House — effectively killing off her effort as a procedural matter, even as it breathes new life into it as a political one. During today’s Dem caucus meeting, Minority Leader HAKEEM JEFFRIES “gauged where rank-and-file members stood” on the matter and “told his caucus members to vote their own conscience,” Nick Wu reports. “We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair. If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed,” Jeffries,...

DETROIT - A former senior ranking United Automobile Workers (UAW) official is accused of taking part in a conspiracy in which she and other union officials accepted a stream of concealed payments and things of value from FCA executives. Nancy A. Johnson, of Macomb Township, allegedly took part in this bribery scheme with FCA executives in the months leading up to the 2015 collective bargaining negotiations, according to the United States Attorney's Office....... Johnson is accused of illegally accepting tens of thousands of dollars worth of designer clothing, golf resort fees, limousine services, lavish meals, luxury accommodations, luggage, and first-class...

President Bush received a rousing welcome today in Indiana where he spoke on behalf of Representative Mike Sodrel. Later, W traveled to South Carolina where he spoke to the men and women serving at Charleston Air Force Base. First Lady Laura Bush joined Representative Nancy Johnson at a campaign fundraiser in Farmington, Connecticut. Enjoy your Weekend on Sanity Island

Moderate RINOS Undermine the GOP November 11, 2005 Download Windows Media PlayerListen to Rush Conduct Broadcast Excellence BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Well, now the White House has fought back. Will the congressional Republicans get their acts in gear? It looks like they're falling part. This gang of moderates under the tutelage of George Soros that killed the ANWR drilling project-- (interruption) You are unaware that the Republican mainstream partnership is funded by George Soros? I kid you not. It's on Michelle Malkin's website. I pulled it down last night. Here we go. She writes, "Many of you were asking for...

2006 Congressional Election Cycle Has Begun  50 Republican Incumbents Undeserving of Support by Pro-life Voters   The Republican National Coalition for Life PAC is currently receiving phone calls from Republican candidates for Congress in the 2006 Republican primaries. Our usual practice is to mail our Candidate Questionnaire to Republican candidates in each district as soon as the filing deadlines are reached. When we receive the results of the questionnaire, they are recorded on our website at www.RNCLife.org so that voters can see for themselves it those seeking to represent them in Washington are truly pro-life. We hope that this service...

(Waterbury-WTNH, Aug. 22, 2003 5:30 PM) _ The day after state education officials listed about 150 Connecticut schools as failing to meet specific standards, educators are voicing their concerns about students who speak English as a second language. "You tell me that every teacher has to be qualified in every subject, that just doesn't work," says Superintendent John O'Brien of Region 1. Connecticut educators are trying to give the feds a reality check about putting the No Child Left Behind law into practice. Meriden principal Miguel Cardona says forcing kids who don't speak English to take the test makes no...

I happen to live in the 5th (I think that's it, anyway) district of CT where, due to redestricting, we have two incumbent congressional candidates battling for one seat, Nancy Johnson, the republicrat, and this Maloney character, the democrat. I don't watch TV any more, and I rarely read the newspaper, so most of my info on election 2002 comes from the blurbs I hear on my car radio going to and from where ever... I'm usually tuned in to Rush, or Hannity's show on WABC from NY. Once in a while, when I'm out of range of that station,...

This morning I saw an RNC sponsored ad blasting Jim Maloney (D-Connecticut) for supporting a Social Security privatization plan. It went on to laud Nancy Johnson (R-Connecticut)for opposingSocial Security privatization. What core beliefs does the RNC have????

(WTNH, July 13, 2002 10:45 PM) _ The conventions have ended but politics will remain front and center here in Connecticut for the next few days. On Monday Vice President Dick Cheney will be in Hartford to attend a fund-raising luncheon for Congresswoman Nancy Johnson. Johnson will kick off her campaign for re-election tomorrow. [That's today... July 14] She'll be facing off in what is essentially an incumbent versus incumbent race against Congressman Jim Maloney in the new redrawn fifth district.