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Congress Moves to Ban Its Own Insider Trading

Bill an attempt to restore faith of hostile public

(Newser) - Soon, insider trading may be illegal for lawmakers, too . In an effort to boost its historically low approval rating, the Senate will today hold a procedural vote allowing it to later this week pass a bill banning Congress from trading on nonpublic info, or giving that info to others to...

DC's 50 Most Powerful People

Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell top the list

(Newser) - Who are the real power brokers in Washington? GQ names the top 50 in its biennial list of the most powerful people in DC—although, the magazine notes, "People with the last names Obama and Biden not included." The top five:
  • Eric Cantor: The House majority leader is
...

House GOP on Payroll Tax Deal: No Way

Reports say that Boehner is behind it, but others are 'in full revolt'

(Newser) - The Senate easily passed the payroll tax cut package yesterday, but "easy" probably isn't a word that will be linked to the deal's fate when it reaches the House tomorrow. Both the Washington Post and Politico report that many House Republicans aren't pleased with the two-month...

Congress&#39; Productivity Plunges
 Congress' Productivity Plunges 
Dec 6, 2011 7:01 AM CST

Congress' Productivity Plunges

Hill approving fewer bills, fewer laws being signed

(Newser) - Non-election years are typically productive times for Congress, but not this year. As of last week, the House had passed 326 bills, its fewest in the last 10 non-election years, while the Senate had green-lit 368, its lowest total since 1995, the Washington Post observes. (For comparison, the House passed...

FBI Arrests Man Over Threats to Cantor, Family

Caller left two voicemails

(Newser) - The FBI says a Tennessee man has been charged with threatening the family of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Agents arrested 62-year-old Glendon Swift of Lenoir City yesterday. He is accused of leaving two voicemail messages at Cantor's office in suburban Richmond, Va., on the evening of Oct. 27....

Cantor Cancels Campus Speech Amid Protests

He pulled out after learning it was open to the public

(Newser) - Eric Cantor canceled a planned speech today on the gap between America's rich and poor after learning it was going to be open to the public—and that Occupy protesters planned to show up in force. Cantor had been due to speak at the Wharton Business School in Philadelphia...

Cantor Backs Off Calling Protesters a 'Mob'

Expresses sympathy with people's frustrations

(Newser) - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor backed away yesterday from earlier comments that the Occupy Wall Street protesters were "mobs," expressing some sympathy for the movement and people's frustrations, reports Bloomberg . “There is a growing frustration out there across this country, and it’s warranted,” acknowledged...

Did GOP Cross Line With Letter to Bernanke?
Did GOP Cross Line With Letter to Bernanke?
OPINIONs
Sep 21, 2011 1:05 PM CDT

Did GOP Cross Line With Letter to Bernanke?

Some pundits think Republican leaders shouldn't play politics with Fed

(Newser) - The latest political firestorm comes courtesy of the top four Republicans in Congress (Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Jon Kyl, and Eric Cantor), who wrote a letter to Ben Bernanke urging restraint on the economy. "We have serious concerns that further intervention by the Federal Reserve could exacerbate current problems,...

Mr. Cantor, 'Have You Left No Sense of Decency?'

He is typical of the GOP's dangerous new style: Paul Krugman

(Newser) - Paul Krugman opens up on Eric Cantor in a scathing column today, accusing the House majority leader of taking victims of Hurricane Irene "hostage" by demanding that federal relief be offset with spending cuts . Cantor used the same kind of tactic in the debt ceiling talks, and Krugman sees...

FEMA Chief to Cantor: Whatever
 FEMA Chief to 
 Cantor: Whatever 
PLUS, RON PAUL'S AN 'IDIOT'
Aug 31, 2011 11:08 AM CDT

FEMA Chief to Cantor: Whatever

Plus, Conn. guv to Ron Paul: You're an 'idiot'

(Newser) - Eric Cantor may want budget cuts to offset any federal aid for Hurricane Irene, but FEMA director Craig Fugate says “psssh” to that. “In this country, Americans have always come to the aid of other Americans in a crisis and disaster,” Fugate said on NBC’s Today....

Cantor Holds Line on Cuts to Pay for Disaster Relief

Same goes for earthquake in his district

(Newser) - Eric Cantor took some heat after he demanded spending cuts to pay for disaster relief in Joplin, but he looks to be holding the line when his own district is involved: Congress "will find the monies" to cover earthquake damage in Mineral, Va. , but “those monies will be...

How the GOP Engineered Its 'Leverage Moment'

GOP radicals captured the party and used default threats to force cuts

(Newser) - Less than 10 days after taking over the House of Representatives in January, majority leader Eric Cantor was already working on using the debt ceiling to force massive spending cuts, reports the Washington Post in a lengthy analysis of how the GOP rebuilt a far-right majority after the drubbings it...

Gary Younge: Debt Ceiling Battle Reveals GOP 'Madness'
 Budget Battle Shows 
 GOP's 'Madness' 
OPINION
Jul 18, 2011 6:23 PM CDT

Budget Battle Shows GOP's 'Madness'

'Dysfunctional' party is pointing the nation toward something like Armageddon

(Newser) - One thing we’ve learned from the debt ceiling debate: Republicans are no longer behaving rationally. They’ve been revealed as a “dysfunctional” party “whose conservative wing is behaving less like a mainstream electoral force than an ultra-left sect being advised by a petulant 2-year-old,” writes Gary...

Poll: 71% Disapprove of GOP's Debt Efforts
 71% Disapprove of 
 GOP's Debt Efforts 
poll numbers
Jul 18, 2011 10:50 AM CDT

71% Disapprove of GOP's Debt Efforts

Democrats' approval numbers slightly better at 31% to GOP's 21%

(Newser) - Some 71% of Americans disapprove of Congressional Republicans’ handling of the debt crisis, while just 21% support the GOP’s efforts, a CBS News poll finds. Congressional Democrats fare better, but only slightly so: 58% disapprove of their work on the issue; 31% approve. President Obama gets the best poll...

Obama, Congress Still Seek 'Grand Bargain'

New committee to look for $5T in cuts over 10 years

(Newser) - That big debt ceiling deal just won't die: Lawmakers are still working on an ambitious "grand bargain" that would hack as much as $5 trillion from the national debt over the next decade, reports the Washington Post . President Obama, House speaker John Boehner, and other congressional leaders have...

Why Hogwarts is Better Than Washington
 Why Hogwarts is Better 
 Than Washington 
OPINION
Jul 15, 2011 1:48 PM CDT

Why Hogwarts is Better Than Washington

David Rothkopf on the dark magic afoot in the capital

(Newser) - In honor of Harry Potter’s last cinematic outing—and the debt ceiling negotiations playing out in Washington—David Rothkopf of Foreign Policy has come up with a list of the top 10 ways Washington is worse than Hogwarts:
  • Peter Pettigrew was only a rat sometimes. Unlike politicians like Mitch
...

Cantor, Boehner: We're Still Best Buds

GOP leaders say they're 'on the same page' over debt ceiling

(Newser) - John Boehner and Eric Cantor put on what the Hill describes as a "buddy-buddy routine" for reporters today to try to dispel notions of animosity between them in the debt ceiling talks. Cantor: “The speaker and I have consistently been on the same page." Boehner, after putting...

EJ Dionne: President Obama Has the 'High Ground' in Deficit Debate; Faces Challenge from Eric Cantor
 Obama Has 
 'High Ground' 
 in Deficit Fight 
ej dionne
Jul 14, 2011 10:12 AM CDT

Obama Has 'High Ground' in Deficit Fight

But he'd better watch out for Eric Cantor

(Newser) - President Obama has “called Republicans’ bluff on the debt,” writes EJ Dionne in the Washington Post . With a little help from Eric Cantor, Obama has shown that Republicans’ top goal has nothing to do with the deficit—instead, they want to maintain low taxes on corporations and the...

Obama on Debt Talks: 'I Will Not Yield'

...even though 'this may bring my presidency down'

(Newser) - We already knew last night's debt talks did not go well —but not only did President Obama leave "abruptly," he really put his foot down, Talking Points Memo reports: "I have reached the point where I say enough," he said, according to those present....

Cantor: Angry Obama Left Meeting

But a Democrat says the session was already over

(Newser) - Shhh, nobody tell Moody's . Today's debt ceiling talks at the White House may have been the testiest yet. As Eric Cantor tells it, the president "lost his temper" and "abruptly" ended the meeting by walking out of the room, reports Politico . But a Democrat offered a...

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