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Rep. Paul Ryan: I’m ruling out thinking about 2016
House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has ruled out seeking the White House in 2016 — at least for now. “I’m ruling out thinking about it right now,” he said in video uploaded to YouTube by the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. “I really don’t think it is in my interest…
Priebus: Obama won women because Republicans lost the ‘emotional’ vote
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Wednesday continued his effort to reach out to minorities and women voters by suggesting that his party had failed to win over “cultural” and “emotional” voters in 2012. During an interview on MSNBC, guest host Luke Russert gave Priebus an opportunity to explain…
Rep. Paul Ryan: Republicans won’t ‘give up on destroying the health care system’
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Tuesday that Republicans would continue to push to repeal health care reform. “We believe that this law is going to collapse under its own weight… This to us is something that we’re not going to give up on, because we’re not going…
Fox & Friends on Ryan’s Obamacare repeal plan: ‘That’s never going to fly’
It would seem that Rep. Paul Ryan hasn’t been reading the directives sent by Fox News don Roger Ailes. Although Ryan has continued to push hard for a complete repeal of Obamacare in recent weeks, even the Right’s central command is calling his effort a waste of time. “Even though…
MSNBC contributor slams Rep. Paul Ryan’s ‘austerity at all costs’ fetish
Joy-Ann Reid, the managing editor of TheGrio.com and a MSNBC contributor, blasted House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Monday for saying his budget plan included the repeal of Obamacare. “Paul Ryan is essentially proposing to balance the budget in ten years, his previous draconian budget did so in…
Paul Ryan: Leave Wisconsin’s electoral college rules alone
While some Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin have mulled over changing the state’s electoral college process to split the electoral vote, former vice-presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) expressed opposition to the idea, even though it would have helped his campaign in the 2012 election. “I’ve always kind of liked the…
Catholic leaders call on ‘pro-life’ lawmakers to ‘stand up to the NRA’
A coalition of 60 Catholic theologians, priests, Catholic sisters and others from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released a statement on Wednesday calling out so-called “pro-life” lawmakers like House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for refusing to work to curb gun violence after the mass…
Paul Ryan signs on as cosponsor of new ‘fetal personhood’ bill
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), erstwhile vice presidential candidate in the failed presidential run of former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA), has signed on as cosponsor in a draconian new bill aimed at curtailing women’s reproductive freedoms. According to Huffington Post, in spite of the defeat of so-called “fetal personhood” laws in…
Cenk Uygur calls New York media out for ignoring climate change
Current TV host Cenk Uygur said Tuesday he hoped the devastation wrought by superstorm Sandy shook the New York-based national media out of its complacency regarding climate change. “If tornadoes hit you in the Midwest, well, they didn’t see it,” Uygur said on The Young Turks. “If hurricanes hit you…
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Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget is a nightmare for transgender Americans
This week, the U.S. Senate and House released their proposed budget plans. The National Center for Transgender Equality has worked hard to achieve a record number of advancements for transgender people and enforcing them depends on these budget negotiations. Without sensible leadership protecting adequate funding, hard-won protections for transgender people in…
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