Posted on 11/03/2010 12:14:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Virginia Republican Eric Cantor’s official announcement of his run for House majority leader came with a twist: a 22-page game plan on how to change Congress.
Cantor, currently the GOP whip, began calling colleagues to shore up his support and wrote a letter promising to change Congress – saying he wants to “drain the swamp rather than learning to swim with the alligators.”
The document is entitled “Delivering on Our Commitment” and promises a broad range of sweeping initiatives ranging from spending cuts to to bringing each item of the Pledge to America to the floor for a vote. It’s a bold plan that shows Cantor wants to be taken as a serious House reformer and policy leader as he ascends to the no. 2 slot in the new GOP hierarchy.
Cantor is not expected to face serious challenge from fellow Republicans for majority leader.
One major reform he’s facing is scheduling the House floor, which POLITICO reported last week. Cantor is proposing committee hearings be uninterrupted by votes, and is also urging committee reports to be brought to the floor for debate.
Cantor says he wants to do away with legislation recognizing “individuals, groups, events and institutions.” In the past, Congresses in the past have passed legislation that honors entities such as baseball teams and universities. Republicans, the Virginian thinks, should only name post offices once a month.
He’s also taking aim at oversight, urging individual members to conduct oversight on their own, asking committees to write quarterly oversight reports and boosting field hearings.
Spending, a major priority of Republicans’, also gets top billing from Cantor. He says he will try to ensure that all new spending has “explicitly” listed how it will be paid for and how the legislation fits into the constitution. He’s likely going to upset some appropriators, because Cantor re-iterated his plan to end earmarking, promising to “not consider House legislation that includes” the member directed spending. He is also vowing to defund piece by piece Democratic health care overhaul.
On jobs, Cantor is planning to “conduct an immediate and comprehensive review of existing and proposed government rules and regulations” – echoing a major complaint of Republicans over the last year.
In a throwback to the past, Cantor is aiming to bring rescission bills to the floor under an open rule so members could cut federal spending they deem as wasteful. In addition, he plans to continue the YouCut program – a plan much maligned by Democrats which put spending cuts in the hands of online users. In the beginning of the last Republican majority in 1995, the GOP had internal clashes over spending cuts, especially when members sought to slash items in other Republicans’ districts.
Entitlement reform is also in the crosshairs of the Virginia Republican. President Barack Obama, Cantor says, wont work with Republicans to “enact real entitlement reform unless it includes major tax increases.” But Republicans, he said, should lay out their plan and encourage Democrats to do the same.
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There are a bunch of reasons, some policy wise, some having to do with it being a waste of time, but also political reasons.
When you see an advertisement from a rat saying they voted with the republican leader 65% of the time, that number is really inflated because it includes all this horse manure.
If congress passes a resolution honoring, say the SG Giants on winning the world series, and Bohner votes yea, and a bunch of rats vote yea, they can go back home and (without saying specifically what it was), point to it, saying we vote with the GOP alot.
This is one more way to draw differences between the GOP and the rats, and make their voting records more honest....
I’m not sure about this. Has a democrat called this racist yet? How do we know it will be good for the country until a dem calls it racist?
” REPEAL THE GENOCIDE CALLED OBAMACARE!
Compromise is out. “
Not until we replace Boner & McConnell.
Meawhile, Bernie and his Messiah are destroying our economy on purpose, ya think? How truly angry or enraged do you think the American people can get?
I don’t trust Eric Cantor one bit.
“July 20, 2010
Cantor won’t join House Tea Party Caucus
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is taking a pass on the House Tea Party Caucus.
The second-ranking House Republican told POLITICO on Tuesday that he’s not joining the group started by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) because he sees it as more of an organic, grass-roots movement rather than a Washington entity.
Cantor praised Bachmann for providing “another avenue for people to have their voices heard” but said he thinks the tea party is better left outside Washington.”
Buyer beware ...
http://republicanwhip.house.gov/newsroom/2009/04/national-council-for-a-new-america-formed.html
Our National Panel of Experts:
Governor Haley Barbour
Governor Jeb Bush
Governor Bobby Jindal
Senator John McCain
Governor Mitt Romney
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Sincerely,
John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, John Carter, Pete Sessions, David Dreier, Kevin McCarthy, Roy Blunt
Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, Lamar Alexander, John Ensign, John Cornyn, John Thune, Kay Bailey Hutchison
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Gingrich Joins Cantor’s Effort To Remake GOP
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Can you just imagine Obama (muslim man) having to work with Cantor (Jewish man) = this would be huge - I like all his points, and I think if the Republicans are serious about helping the American people, leaders like Boehner must be humble enough to step down and give a new name and face to this turn in our history. McConnell definitely needs to go - I’m all for Jim DeMint as new minority senate leader. McConnell is part of the “boys club”.
REPEAL OBAMACARE and the parts of the Stimulus bill that handcuff our doctors.
Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs
Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research Membership
Recovery Act Allocates $1.1 Billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research
http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/os/cerbios.html
OBAMACARE’S LETHAL THIRD RAIL SHOCK TO COME
Dr. David Janda explains rationing and why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HnkxIh62dQ&NR=1
Obamacare Endgame: Doctors Will be Fined or Jailed if they Put Patients First
by Dr. Elaina George
Why cut Social Security and Medicare? Just cut welfare, food stamps and handouts to illegals.
What else do we need to know about this opportunistic RINO
That was actually a good decision. I don’t want to see the Tea Party as an official wing of the Republican party. It exists to keep the republicans in line, not to be a part of the establishment.
Cantor’s decision is based on his hostility to the tea party and Palin, and all this conservatism.
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