The Week Ahead: Congress, White House reach a deal on tax hikes, House won’t...
Welcome to Texas on the Potomac’s “The Week Ahead,” a preview of events to come on Capitol Hill and at the White House this week. This week’s report was written by William K. Moore of ViaNovo. • • •...
View ArticleThe Week Ahead: Can anybody make our economy grow?
(AP Photo) Welcome to Texas on the Potomac’s “The Week Ahead,” a preview of events to come on Capitol Hill and at the White House this week. This week’s report was written by William K. Moore of...
View ArticleTed Cruz brings Twitterverse to Senate floor for the first time in history
Filibusters prove the impossible: people in Washington actually can run out of things to say. While it may take hours, or even days, eventually lawmakers just can’t advocate their opinions any longer....
View ArticleRand Paul admits he considered using a catheter during filibuster
When nature calls, even a United States senator can’t talk his way out of it. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul concluded his filibuster to halt the nomination of John Brennan as CIA director just under the...
View ArticleJust so everyone’s clear — Rand Paul and Ted Cruz want to make it a law that...
Sen. Rand Paul is making sure everyone is clear that killing a noncombatant American on U.S. soil is illegal. He spoke for 13 hours on the subject yesterday in his filibuster of CIA nominee John...
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View ArticleCruz glad to be a ‘wacko bird’
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has been called many things, from the next Joe McCarthy to most recently a ‘wacko bird’. But Cruz, who spoke to a group of fellow conservatives at the Weyrich Awards dinner...
View ArticleCruz ready to #StandWithRand on gun control — even if that means another...
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is threatening to jump on board with another Rand Paul filibuster, this time on gun legislation that would create a universal system of background checks before weapons could be...
View ArticleTop Senate Democrat accuses Ted Cruz of flip-flopping on background checks
Democrats want to make Sen. Ted Cruz pay a political price for his threaten to use procedural tools such as the filibuster to block any gun legislation. The latest broadside: The top Senate Democrat...
View ArticleTexMessage: Sheila Jackson Lee takes on Ted Cruz on gun control
TexMessage Wednesday, April 3 TEXclusive Good morning, TexMessagers! What do you think of a filibuster on gun control? Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, is perhaps the Texas delegation’s most active...
View ArticleChris Matthews says Ted Cruz is blocking gun control while killers are ‘using...
TV anchor and political commentator, Chris Matthews, recently linked Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to the cause of two nationally covered killings of public officials. “We’ve got a Texas senator, Ted Cruz, who...
View ArticleUPDATED: White House, McCain blast Cruz for threatening filibuster over guns
There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be...
View ArticleCruz introduces legislation to tighten enforcement of background checks — not...
With his failed filibuster behind him, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz came out this week with two new pieces of gun legislation that will compete with the bill set to be discussed this week. Yesterday, Cruz...
View ArticleWendy Davis bolsters image of Texas Democrats on national stage following...
It is no small wonder that Wendy Davis, a State Senator without widespread name recognition even in Texas, was catapulted to instant national fame after over 120,000 people throughout the country tuned...
View ArticleA sampling of Wendy Davis viral videos, from Taiwanese animation to Supergirl...
Wendy Davis has become a political folk hero from Austin to Taipei, much to the consternation of Texas Gov. Rick Perry and hard-line conservatives in the Texas Legislature. And while Perry & Co....
View ArticleFifteen tweets you might have missed about Wendy Davis’ filibuster
The 13-hour one-woman marathon was met with countless responses from not only Texans, but viewers all over the country and the world. Here are some tweets about the law-block that you may have missed.
View ArticleTen things Texas Democrats are thankful for this history-making week
Rumors that the Democratic grassroots had shriveled and died in the parched heat of Rick Perry's Texas turned out to be greatly exaggerated. Pro-choice and Democratic activists flooded the Texas...
View ArticleTexas Twitter Tussle: Wendy Davis vs. David Dewhurst (it’s not even close)
Today, we examine the social media efforts of Fort Worth state Sen. Wendy Davis and her Senate nemesis, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.
View ArticleHow the hashtag #StandWithWendy took on a life of its own
This week, we take a look at the most influential tweeters who used the hashtag #StandWithWendy to tweet about the historic filibuster by Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis.
View ArticleCommentary: It took a ‘mob’ to protect Texas from bumbling ‘Banana Republicans’
If Americans witness their government abusing power, wouldn’t you want them to speak up? Molly Ivins used to jokingly call the gallery the “owners’ box” because that’s where the special interest...
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