Posts Tagged ‘Congressman’
Dumb Congresswoman: Magazines clips, these are ammunition, they’re bullets
Add Congresswoman DeGette to your list of Dumb Democratic Congresswomen. She believes that Magazines should be banned because once they are all shot, they will be gone for ever. Huh? Well, let's let the Congresswoman explain: "What's the efficacy of banning these magazine clips? I will tell you, these are ammunition, they're bullets, so the people who have those now, they're going to shoot them" says Rep DeGette. According to her, "the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will be shot and there won't be any more available." Yes, she said that! Her statement is right up there with other Dumb Democratic Congresswomen statements: Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee who wanted the Mars Rover to take a photo of the [...]
Fair? Amendment – No more Golf for Obama until Americans can Tour the White House
Fair? No more golf for Obama until Americans can Tour the White House. Maybe the American People should make Obama's inability to compromise with congress to avoid the sequester as painful as possible Gohmerts amendment to H.R. 933 states: “None of the funds made available by a division of this Act may be used to transport the president to or from a golf course until public tours of the White House resume.” Gohmert Blasts White House Over Cancellation of Tours, Introduces Amendment - Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) spoke on the House floor about the announcement made by the White House to cancel all tours due to staffing reductions resulting from sequestration. He talked about an amendment he introduced to the Continuing Resolution which would preventing Obama from using federal [...]
Is your Congressmen worth $107,000 a year after they retire?
After retiring from a 36-year career in the U.S. House of Representatives last month, Norm Dicks has no doubt that he’s worth every penny of his new pension: It will allow the Washington state Democrat to cash a monthly check from the U.S. government for $7,365.82. That’s the net pay on his gross annual pension of $107,268, or $8,939 per month. “I think I did a good job for the people in the state of Washington, you know. I think that this is fair, I really do,” Dicks, 72, said in an interview. Dicks, who’s now working as a consultant with defense companies, is among a handful of departing members of Congress who are eligible for six-figure pensions in the first year of retirement. If he lives long enough, his pension could exceed his congressional salary of $174,000 in [...]
Congressman’s Flirty tweets to bombshell blonde scandalous?
He is old enough to be her father! Rep. Steve Cohen first claimed the young woman was the daughter of a family friend. Later, he revealed she is his own daughter. A congressman’s tweets to a bombshell blonde led to a bombshell announcement on Thursday, as the young woman was revealed to be his secret daughter. Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee has set tongues wagging in Washington with what were perceived to be flirty tweets to a gorgeous blonde university student. But after hours of speculation and comparisons to disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, Cohen made the shocking admission to local and national television outlets that the tweets were fatherly rather than flirtatious. He told NBC News he only learned he had a daughter three years ago. Read more: NY [...]
Sen. Bob Menendez Is Becoming A Headache For Democrats
Amidst Growing Scandal, Sen. Bob Menendez Is Becoming A Headache For Democrats WHEN IT COMES TO MENENDEZ, “THE BAD NEWS KEEPS COMING” FOR DEMOCRATS For Senate Democrats, “The Bad News Keeps Coming” In The Developing Menendez Scandal. “The bad news keeps coming: a Senate Ethics probe, allegations involving underage prostitutes, an FBI investigation of a key campaign donor, undisclosed flights on the donor’s private plane, and now, reports linking Menendez to an existing multi-million dollar contract he urged officials to enforce for the disgraced donor. Menendez denies nearly all of it. But it couldn’t come at a worse time for the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who, as the only Hispanic Democrat in the upper chamber, has led the way on his [...]
Robin Hood Strikes Congressman Issa steals $100G in jewelry
Guaranteed the left will call the theft justified as forced redistribution - Its the transformed America San Diego County authorities say $100,000 worth of jewelry has been stolen in a burglary at the home of California U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (EYE'-suh). U-T San Diego says more than 50 items, including watches, rings, earrings and bracelets, were taken from the Vista home on Nov. 29. No arrests have been made. An Issa spokesman says the pieces were irreplaceable family heirlooms. Read More
Hilarious! Congressman Hank Johnson: ‘We Earn’ Our $174K Salary
Look there are two comedians in Congress! Al Frankin has competition. This is the same congressman that was worried about Guam capsizing due to increase in population. Now he asserts that Congressman earn their pay! Hilarious! (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) says members of Congress "earn" their $174,000 per year salary (plus benefits) and that this compensation is “not elaborate." "The benefits and salary that we get, we earn," Johnson said at the Annesbrooks HOA Candidate Forum in Georgia in October. "It’s not elaborate, it’s just a bunch of poppycock that a lot of people have spread around trying to get us to hate our own government and our government representatives.” Read more
Congressman Ron Paul’s Farewell Address – Full Text – Video
Farewell to Congress - Ron Paul Delivered on the House Floor November 14, 2012 This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I’ll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period. My goals in 1976 were the same as they are today: promote peace and prosperity by a strict adherence to the principles of individual liberty. It was my opinion, that the course the U.S. embarked on in the latter part of the 20th Century would bring us a major financial crisis and engulf us in a foreign policy that would overextend us and undermine our national security. To achieve the goals I sought, government would have had to shrink in size and scope, reduce spending, change the monetary system, and reject the unsustainable costs of policing the world [...]
Plea Deal: Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. to Resign
CBS 2 reported exclusively Friday night that Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. might step down before the end of the year as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors investigating possible misuse of campaign funds. So, on Saturday, CBS 2′s Mike Puccinelli went to Rainbow/PUSH headquarters to try to get some answers from the congressman’s father, Rev. Jesse Jackson. The elder Jackson was talking about jobs at the Saturday morning forum of his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, but he wasn’t talking about the federal investigation centered around his namesake. via CBS Chicago. Jesse Jackson, Jr. Plea Deal to Include Resigning from Congress The tentative deal includes: –Jackson resigning for health reasons. –His pleading guilty to charges involving misuse of campaign [...]
Undercover Video: Congressman’s Son may have Commit Voter Fraud
James O'Keefe has struck again. O'Keefe is the guy who broke the big ACORN scandal with his undercover video reporting. Now, he's out with a video that may land a Congressman's son in trouble for voter fraud. Watch below as Patrick Moran, the son of Virginia Congressman Jim Moran(and the Field Director for his father's campaign), is caught on tape talking to an undercover reporter about how to allegedly cast ballots deceitfully for registered voters. Folks, this is the new wave of reporting in this viral, social media world. via New Undercover Video: Did Congressman's Son Commit Voter Fraud?. @ProjectVeritas_ : Jim Moran's D-Va. Field Director Conspires to Commit Voter Fraud, Forge Docs Watch our Project Veritas reporter being educated on how to properly commit massive voter [...]
