“For five years, Senate Democrats have blocked our efforts to repeal Obamacare,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Jan. 6, 2016. “That ends today.” “With this vote, we are keeping a promise and putting a bill that repeals Obamacare and defunds Planned Parenthood on the president’s desk,” Ryan continued. “This budget reconciliation bill, which would […]
Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer is not impressed by the Republican plan to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady and House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden released the health care plan favored by congressional Republicans Monday evening, called the American Health Care Act. The legislation […]
House Speaker Paul Ryan was spotted riding a horse by U.S.-Mexico border during his trip to the Lone Star state Wednesday. The trip marks the Wisconsin Republican’s first visit to the border, where he was joined by Department of Homeland Security officials, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and Texas Rep. John Carter, Politico […]
House Speaker Paul Ryan asserted Republicans will repeal and replace Obamacare, not just repair it, during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. While reports indicated Republicans plan to fix parts of the Affordable Care Act instead of fully replacing it, Ryan said the party plans to construct a new plan that will deliver […]
There’s a lot of talk about the procedure Republicans are using to dismantle Obamacare, but what exactly is reconciliation and how does it work? Reconciliation is a budget tool used for legislation that changes taxes, spending, or the deficit. The procedure is especially powerful in the Senate, since a reconciliation bill only needs 51 votes […]
A number of House committees will see a shakeup in leadership next year, as GOP members approve the Steering Committee’s recommendations for chairmanships during their conference meeting Friday. House Speaker Paul Ryan released a list of approved recommendations Thursday evening, showing seven changes slated for the 115th Congress. “This morning the full Conference ratified the […]
House Speaker Paul Ryan overwhelming won his primary against his Tea Party challenger, Paul Nehlen, in the race for Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District Tuesday evening. “I am humbled and honored that Wisconsinites in the 1st Congressional District support my efforts to keep fighting on their behalf,” Ryan said in a victory statement. “Janna and I […]
By The Staff | The Save Jersey Blog The latest polling out of New Hampshire suggests that the Governor’s progress may have leveled off, Save Jerseyans, but that didn’t stop him for forging ahead today in a joint appearance with Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, and Paul Ryan at the Kemp Forum in South Carolina: ______
By The Staff | The Save Jersey Blog Just when you thought the GOP couldn’t be any more divided, Save Jerseyans, a successful Friday omnibus spending package vote to avoid a year-end government shutdown has ignited fierce debate (most condemnation) in the right-leaning reaches of the Internet. Two New Jersey Republicans dissented from the rest of the delegation. […]
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog A ‘supermajority‘ of the conservative House Freedom Caucus is reportedly backing Paul Ryan for speaker, Save Jerseyans, including the fiercely-independent Justin Amash, explaining “Paul is a policy entrepreneur who has developed conservative reforms dealing with a wide variety of subjects, and he has promised to be an ideas-focused speaker […]
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By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Dez Bryant went full-showboat and blew it for the Cowboys on Sunday, Save Jerseyans. Dallas fans can delude themselves until next season for all I care; it’s over now! And by the way: are Cowboys fans really going to complain about bad calls? With a straight face? […]
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By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog This particular story really pissed me off, Save Jerseyans, which is really saying something since I’m pretty much immune to most liberal idiocy from covering it on a daily basis. There are still exceptions. On William Bennett’s Morning in America radio talk show last week, a program where the former […]
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By Dale Glading | The Save Jersey Blog As if on cue, the day after I wrote my previous post about the not-so-well-intentioned advice being disseminated to the Republican Party by liberal columnists, along comes E.J. Dionne with another useless piece of unsolicited dribble. In his most recent bit of nonsense, Dionne claims that the Republicans in congress […]
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Governor, RGA Chairman, and Public Enemy #1 for Mark Levin AND the DNC (go figure?) Chris Christie waded into the Paul Ryan budget debate today, Save Jerseyans, after announcing a couple of additional personnel changes from his Trenton annex office. “Incremental progress is still progress,” the Governor told reporters when […]
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By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ07) offered an assist to Paul Ryan and his Capitol Hill team on Thursday evening, Save Jerseyans, as elements of the D.C. conservative class loudly decried what they view as a federal budget deal betrayal perpetrated by the House GOP: “Far from perfect, the Ryan-Murray budget […]
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By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog This is self-explanatory, Save Jerseyans: In an early look at the 2016 presidential campaign, 43 percent of American voters back New Jersey’s Republican Governor, Christopher Christie, while 42 percent back former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democrat, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. Ms. Clinton has […]
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