Topic - House Of Representatives

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time to clean House

  The National Defense Authorization Act passed without hearings, thereby cementing the United States' new position as a police state by giving law enforcement the right to detain and imprison us without charges or due process ("End of the Constitution," Commentary, Monday).

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama's cooking the numbers

  President Obama's bogus $3.8 trillion budget, containing a 0.2 percent spending increase and a 17.5 percent increase in taxes, was specifically prepared to be rejected by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives while solidifying the Obama re-election base ("How Obama will waste your money," Comment & Analysis, Wednesday).

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  Kaptur, Kucinich face off in Ohio

  They have served a combined 46 years in the House of Representatives, ethnic Catholic liberals born four months apart representing districts along their state's northern border.

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  House ready to consider insider trading ban

  With members of Congress convinced their political survival depends on their image, the House is wasting no time in considering a Senate-passed bill that would ban insider trading by lawmakers and thousands of executive branch officials. Stock trades would have to be posted online within 30 days.

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  HANSON: The un-Obama

  Barack Obama's favorability in the polls falls when he is himself - overexposed, hard left in his news conferences, and boastful about legislative achievements such as Obamacare and a stimulus of more than $1 trillion.

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  REED: Not a benefit check but a paycheck

  In the House of Representatives, we are fighting to help Americans get back to work and put an end to the borrow-and-spend mentality in Washington. We were not sent here to simply continue the status quo. With the president's failed trillion-dollar stimulus leaving unemployment above 8 percent for the 35th consecutive month, the status quo is both unacceptable and unaffordable.

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  MILLER: Help the unemployed off the rolls

  When it comes to job creation, President Obama has no clue. Under his leadership, the average amount of time spent in the unemployment lines more than doubled from four to nine months. Rather than push those down on their luck toward new opportunities, Mr. Obama wants to make sure they stay on the government dole for 99 weeks.

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  TYRRELL: Our Bill Clinton

  How long have I been saying it? At least for 15 years, but in private I have been aware of it longer. Newt Gingrich is conservatism's Bill Clinton, but without the charm. He has acquired wit, but he has all the charm of barbed wire.

• Inside Politics

  he House of Representatives has passed a bill confirming the use of religious symbols at military memorials. It was also voting on legislation to order that a prayer issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on D-Day be installed at the World War II Memorial in Washington.

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  Gingrich ambushed by House bank attack

  In a debate in which former Speaker Newt Gingrich angrily batted back a fusillade of attacks, he didn't anticipate one from rival Rick Santorum that wound up hitting him square between the eyes.

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  Obama seeks power to merge agencies

  President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and he would start by trying to merge six major trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, the White House said Friday. The Commerce Department would be among those that would cease to exist.

• ROHRABACHER: Great journalist, better tequila drinker

  I am proud to have called Tony Blankley my friend for more than four decades. He played a significant role not only in my life but the life of this great nation. Values that we shared made him a mighty force for liberty and the American cause. We will miss him as a wonderful person but even more so as a force for those values and beliefs that we hold dear as Americans.

• Electoral maps in Texas at issue in case before Supreme Court

  A federal law says states and localities with a history of discrimination cannot change any voting procedures without first getting approval from the Justice Department or a federal court in Washington. Yet Texas is asking the Supreme Court to allow the use of new, unapproved electoral districts in this year's voting for Congress and the state Legislature.

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  NORQUIST: Post-Iowa, GOP prospects promising

  As ancient Greeks anxiously waited for a pronouncement from the Oracle of Delphi, we have awaited the results from the Iowa caucuses. We now know who got the most votes and won, and who outperformed expectations and therefore "really" won. And of those who "lost" in Iowa, some will accept the decision of the Fates, and some will continue onto other primary states as zombies apparently unaware of their lack of pulse.

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  DECKER: Five questions with Michele Bachmann

  Rep. Michele Bachmann is a candidate for the Republican nomination for president who enjoys strong Tea Party support. Currently serving her third term in the House of Representatives, she was the first Republican woman from Minnesota to be elected to Congress. A former state senator, Mrs. Bachmann understands the problems with the tax code inside and out from five years spent as a federal tax attorney with the Internal Revenue Service.

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