Category: Congress

Did Boehner lower the boom on Ellmers?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Washington is buzzing about a bit of theater on the US House floor recently, involving a group of Members that included The Second District’s Renee

GOP-controlled US House AGAIN kicks the debt can down the road

Posted on September 16, 2012September 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The GOP-led US House, this week, passed ANOTHER short term funding measure for the federal government: Several freshmen Republicans in the House of Representatives who came

So, NOW she’s a “Tea Party person”

Posted on August 29, 2012August 29, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers is having quite a rocky relationship with folks in her new majority Republican district. A recent survey by Public Policy Polling found that she

Tennessee Democrats get a surprise in their US Senate primary

Posted on August 5, 2012August 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

A man espousing conservative and libertarian views convincingly wins Tennessee’s Democrat US Senate primary, and state Democrats are ready to go to court to invalidate the voters’ choice. The reason?

In defense of defense spending

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Pentagon budget is a popular target of leftists when the whole concept of cutting spending gets raised. Stories from the 80s about alleged $2000 toilet seats are recycled. I

NC Republicans: Talking the talk, but not walking the walk on ObamaCare

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Brant Clifton

All of our Republican members of Congress have been telling us — since 2010 — that they are dead set against Obamacare and committed to killing it. Well, it is

Stop this woman before she spends AGAIN!

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers (affectionately known in these parts as Miss 59%) won her election in 2010 making people believe that she signed on to the limited government agenda

Richard Hudson: part of DC, Raleigh establishment plan to stamp out the Tea Party

Posted on July 19, 2012July 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

After the smoke cleared on Tuesday, Richard Hudson had convincingly stomped Scott Keadle in the GOP primary runoff for the 8th congressional district. Hudson scooted down to North Carolina

The Morning After: Looking back at Tuesday’s vote

Posted on July 18, 2012July 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Well, the mainstream media did its best to tamp down enthusiasm about the state’s runoff elections. (Our local paper ran a grand total of TWO stories

Study sheds more light on Ellmers’s performance in Congress

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Govtrack.us is a non-partisan web site devoted to the study of Congress and its legislative process. It also has on-going scatter diagram studies tracking Members based on the