Showing posts with label Jeb Hensarling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeb Hensarling. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Lisa Sylvester on campaign contributors to the new Super Committee debt panel, discusses their agendas with Bill Allison of Sunlight Foundation


CNN video: Reporter Lisa Sylvester examines the identity and interests of some of the largest campaign contributors to the 12 members of the new Super Committee debt panel, and discusses their agendas with The Sunlight Foundation's Bill Allison. August 16, 2011.


Sunlight Foundation video: The Debt Ceiling Deal and You, August 15, 2011

The informative videos above about the Super Committee Debt group were in my YouTube Channel inbox today, and yesterday afternoon I received this latest email from Nicole Aro of The Sunlight Foundation, and I reprint it here for your edification:

Dear Sunlighter,


Congressional leaders have appointed members to the “Super Committee” -- 12 lawmakers assigned the power and responsibility of cutting $1.5 trillion from the national deficit -- by the end of the year. As you might expect, lobbyists and powerful special interests have already started to circle.

This “Super Congress” or “Super Committee” certainly has “Super Powers” -- but if they don’t pledge to be Super Transparent, we won’t know if they’re working for us or for the powerful, wealthy lobbyists and special interests in Washington. This work could stay in the shadows until the recommendations of the committee are released in December!


The creation of this committee -- totally outside normal congressional rules and accountability -- is a pretty clear signal that something is broken in our democracy. While the committee members are certainly entitled to some private deliberation, this process needs be open and transparent. Sunlight's come up with five demands to increase transparency in this committee, but we need your help to make sure others join our campaign.


Thanks for all that you do,
Nicole, Tiina, John and the rest of the Sunlight team

P.S. -- Got a clever idea for a campaign tactic that will show Congress we’re serious about our democracy? Please let us know here -- or let us know if you think someone else has a really great idea.
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also see Pelosi Names Clyburn, Van Hollen, Becerra to Debt Panel

Friday, April 1, 2011

What you know implicitly, Rasmussen Reports confirms: "57% Okay with Government Shutdown If It Leads to Deeper Budget Cuts"; Marco Rubio on CRs



Sen. Marco Rubio video:
In His Own Words: Week In Review -April 1, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-NXWsbsWw




Fox News Channel video: Sen. Marco Rubio on 2011 federal budget and why he'd vote against raising the federal debt limit on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends"
-April 1, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WzzhgH_wzA

In my email inbox today comes confirmation of what I've known since November's election, which is that despite all the predictable paint-by-number "Rally in Tally" stories locally, and the Tweets, blog postings and warnings of doom from liberal interest groups and the predictable pleadings of the government employee class
and their friends in the MSM, that the Tea Party, such as it is, will overplay their hand, the reality is that voters want smaller government budgets and more cuts.

Rasmussen Reports
57% Okay With Government Shutdown If It Leads to Deeper Budget Cuts
Friday, April 01, 2011

A majority of voters are fine with a partial shutdown of the federal government if that’s what it takes to get deeper cuts in federal government spending.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters think making deeper spending cuts in the federal budget for 2011 is more important than avoiding a partial government shutdown...


Read the rest of the polling data at:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/march_2011/57_okay_with_government_shutdown_if_it_leads_to_deeper_budget_cuts




Fox News Channel video: Rep. Jeb Hensarling on 2011 budget battle and prospect of government shutdown on Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk0Hla0VAH0

See also:
Congressional Quarterly

GOP weighs budget compromise
http://www.congress.org/news/2011/04/01/gop_weighs_budget_compromise#src=db


National Journal
Tea Party Divide: Protesters Call for Shutdown; Lawmakers, Not So Much Republican lawmakers insist they want to keep the government open.
By Lindsey Boerma
Thursday, March 31, 2011 | 4:15 p.m.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/tea-party-divide-protesters-call-for-shutdown-lawmakers-not-so-much-20110331

http://www.youtube.com/user/RepPaulRyan

http://www.youtube.com/user/RepJebHensarling


http://www.youtube.com/user/SenatorMarcoRubio

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Hotline TV looks to the post-November 2nd future and does some GOP STARGAZING: Four Who Would Shine Under A Republican Majority

8/12/10 Hotline TV hosts Josh Kraushaar and Reid Wilson look to the post November 2nd future and do some GOP STARGAZING: Four Who Would Shine Under A Republican Majority.

The GOP needs 39 new seats to take over the U.S. House of Representatives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEGO1aAJnpM



Here again are the four stars they mention:

4.) Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Calif., 22nd District,
elected 2006
http://kevinmccarthy.house.gov/

3.) Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, 6th District, elected 2003
http://hensarling.house.gov/
http://www.jebhensarling.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/RepJebHensarling#p/a

2.) Marco Rubio of Florida,
former Speaker of the Florida House and 2010 GOP nominee for U.S. Senate
http://www.youtube.com/user/MarcoRubio

1.) Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, 1st District
, elected 1998

http://paulryan.house.gov/
http://www.youtube.com/user/RepPaulRyan#p/a

A Roadmap for America's Future

http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/

Rep. Paul Ryan at The Brookings Institution: Prosperity vs Austerity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWYAEjVf2cM



See also: Republican Study Committee
http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/


The last time I posted a Hotline TV video was June 29, 2010
Hotline TV's Quinn McCord & Tim Sahd: Which U.S. House Dems are most at risk?
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/hotline-tvs-quinn-mccord-tim-sahd-which.html