SaddleBrooke Republican Club » jim demint http://sbrc1.net Western United States Largest Republican Club Wed, 23 May 2012 23:00:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Scribecast: Rep. Rob Bishop Outlines an Alternative to No Child Left Behind http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/31/scribecast-rep-rob-bishop-outlines-an-alternative-to-no-child-left-behind/ http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/31/scribecast-rep-rob-bishop-outlines-an-alternative-to-no-child-left-behind/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:43:43 +0000 Rob Bluey http://blog.heritage.org/?p=94904 More than half of states have asked the U.S. Department of Education for a waiver from No Child Left Behind. Ten years after President George W. Bush signed the law, the Obama administration appears willing to grant waivers, so long as states adopt a new set of requirements favored by the current occupant in the White House. Chief among them is the Common Core State Standards, national standards and tests that require states to surrender control of their classrooms. That doesn’t sit well with Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), a former … More]]> http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/31/scribecast-rep-rob-bishop-outlines-an-alternative-to-no-child-left-behind/feed/ 0 Sweet Repeal http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/x2uvzhmgnDI/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/x2uvzhmgnDI/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:05:30 +0000 Jim Harper http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=45774 By Jim Harper

Look at this legislative language. It’s the stuff of beauty: (a) In general.—The following sections of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) are hereby repealed: (1) Section 339 (47 U.S.C. 339). (2) Section 340 (47 U.S.C. 340). (3) Section 341 (47 U.S.C. 341). (4) Section 342 (47 U.S.C. 342). (5) Section [...]

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/sweet-repeal/feed/ 0 House Oversight Hearing Shines Light on Food-Stamp Fraud http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/09/house-oversight-hearing-shines-light-on-food-stamp-fraud/ http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/09/house-oversight-hearing-shines-light-on-food-stamp-fraud/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:35:57 +0000 Alison Meyer http://author.blog.heritage.org/?p=93296 Food-stamp fraud and the government’s failed attempts to stop it were the focus of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing yesterday. Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) called the hearing in response to a Scripps Howard News Service investigative report exposing widespread abuse. The investigation revealed that retailers who lost authorization to accept food stamps were still conducting business despite their restrictions. “[D]ozens of individuals who had been banned as food-stamp vendors nonetheless remained in the business in New York; Los Angeles; Phoenix; San Diego; Tulsa, Okla.; West Palm Beach, … More]]> http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/09/house-oversight-hearing-shines-light-on-food-stamp-fraud/feed/ 0 Time to End Energy Tax Subsidies http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/02/time-to-end-energy-tax-subsidies/ http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/02/time-to-end-energy-tax-subsidies/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:15:10 +0000 Nicolas Loris http://blog.heritage.org/?p=89953 Today, Senators Jim DeMint (R–SC) and Mike Lee (R–ID) introduced legislation that would move the United States a giant step forward in making our country’s energy market freer by eliminating targeted tax credits for energy sources and technologies. Their legislation, a companion to Representative Mike Pompeo’s (R–KS) bill, would force any tax policy that picks certain industries as winners and losers in the market to expire at the end of the year and expedite sunsets for tax credits extending multiple years. And it goes after all targeted tax credits: oil, … More]]> http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/02/time-to-end-energy-tax-subsidies/feed/ 0 Sen. Lee to Testify at Hearing on Illegal Non-Recess Appointments http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/31/sen-lee-to-testify-at-hearing-on-illegal-non-recess-appointments/ http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/31/sen-lee-to-testify-at-hearing-on-illegal-non-recess-appointments/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:42:00 +0000 Lachlan Markay http://blog.heritage.org/?p=89812 A handful of constitutional law experts are slated to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee tomorrow about President Obama’s four unconstitutional non-recess appointments. The witnesses include Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), one of Congress’ chief critics of Obama’s unprecedented decision. Lee will offer his expertise as a former clerk for a Supreme Court justice and attorney specializing in Supreme Court litigation. His testimony will come on the heels of a testy exchange with the president that began with the former’s announcement that he may block all of Obama’s … More]]> http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/31/sen-lee-to-testify-at-hearing-on-illegal-non-recess-appointments/feed/ 0 Live at Noon: Senator Jim DeMint at Heritage http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/31/live-at-noon-senator-jim-demint-at-heritage/ http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/31/live-at-noon-senator-jim-demint-at-heritage/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:48:26 +0000 Mike Brownfield http://blog.heritage.org/?p=89760 http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/31/live-at-noon-senator-jim-demint-at-heritage/feed/ 0 Tea Party Leader Calls Comparisons to Occupy Wall Street ‘Insulting’ http://blog.heritage.org/2011/11/28/tea-party-leader-calls-comparisons-to-occupy-wall-street-insulting/ http://blog.heritage.org/2011/11/28/tea-party-leader-calls-comparisons-to-occupy-wall-street-insulting/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:55:56 +0000 Rob Bluey http://author.blog.heritage.org/?p=84934 Media coverage of Occupy Wall Street has dominated the news lately, supplanting stories about the Tea Party movement and the grassroots uprising that took Washington by storm. For one of the movement’s early leaders, it has come as no surprise. Jenny Beth Martin is a co-founder and national coordinator for Tea Party Patriots. Today she continues to fight against big government, albeit while fending off comparisons to Occupy Wall Street. In an interview with Ginni Thomas at The Daily Caller, Martin talked about the early rise of Tea Party and … More]]> http://blog.heritage.org/2011/11/28/tea-party-leader-calls-comparisons-to-occupy-wall-street-insulting/feed/ 0