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"National Council for a New America": new GOP, same old amnesty? (Jeb, McCain, Romney) - 4/29/2009

... known. Others signing on include John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, Lamar Alexander, and two who had their own amnesty plans: Mike Pence and Jon Kyl. Per Ben Smith, Sarah Palin was invited and hasn't replied yet; Newt Gingrich and Michael Steele were ruled out due to heading a 527 and a party respectively. UPDATE: The full text of the letter they sent out is below. Other signatories...

DHS released rightwing extremists report despite objections by their civil rights officials (+Napolitano, Hoekstra, Harman, Boehner) - 4/17/2009

From this: Civil liberties officials at the Homeland Security Department did not agree with some of the language in a controversial report on right-wing extremists, but the agency issued the report anyway. ...Homeland Security spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said the report was issued before officials resolved problems raised by the agency's civil rights division. Kudwa would not specify what language ...

Interest cost on stimulus bill: $347 billion over 10 years - 1/27/2009

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) asked the Congressional Budget Office to estimate just the debt service on the stimulus plan (H.R. 1), i.e., how much it would cost in interest. You can download the PDF with the reply at reason.com/blog/show/131301.html; the important part of it is below as well as Boehner calling it a "trillion dollar spending bill":

Stimulus bill: billions for "nonprofit entities" like ACORN? - 1/26/2009

This is from pages 222 and 223 of the House Democrats 1/23/09 version (readthestimulus.org/index.php?doc=hr1_text_0123&page=222): For a further additional amount for ‘‘Community Development Fund’’, $4,190,000,000, to be used for neighborhood stabilization activities related to emergency assistance for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes... of which— (1) not less t...

Got a question for John Boehner? (Digg, until 1/22/09) - 1/21/2009

... ask of Republican House Leader John Boehner. Until midnight on January 22, 2008, you can submit and vote on questions here: digg.com/dialogg/John_Boehner_1 This effort suffers the same flaws of all popular voting systems: the weakest questions will rise to the top. Thus it is in the current case. While it's still too early to tell just how bad it will be, the potheads have made yet another a...

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