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Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann faces an uphill battle against Jeb Hensarling, who has important endorsements under his belt. Rep. Michele Bachmann accepts the “Tax Fighter Award” from the National Tax Limitation Committee on September 23, 2010 for her vote record in the 111th Congress against tax increases and for tax reform. (Photo: Michele Bachmann Web site) (CNSNews.com) – Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has the support of many Tea Party supporters for a Republican leadership post, but most leaders of the newly-elected House majority are backing conservative Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas.Bachmann and Hensarling appear headed for a showdown over...

While his party basked in the afterglow of a historic House victory, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) announced he would resign as House Republican Conference Chairman, and Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling threw his hat in the ring. Hensarling, who has led the conservative Republican Study Committee, quickly won the endorsement of incoming Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the likely incoming majority leader. The Cantor backing gives Hensarling a huge boost for the leadership job, which is seen as a stepping stone to higher slots in the GOP hierarchy. “Today, I was saddened to learn that my dear friend Mike Pence has chosen not...

Tea Party Amendment In what promises to be a consequential election year, Republican leaders are eager to get the masses who make up the Tea Party movement on their side. But Tea Partyers remember that the GOP Congress and GOP president themselves spent way too much — even expanding the fiscally doomed Medicare entitlement program. Some Tea Party leaders even accuse Republican spendthrifts of practicing socialism. GOP Reps. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, Mike Pence of Indiana and John Campbell of California may have just hit on a way of focusing the energy of a movement that's been accused by Democrats...

He's right - Obama's wrong.

Hensarling didn't appreciate being called a liar by the president, so he went on Morning Joe to have his own Joe Wilson moment to prove the president, who welcomed the fact-checking, was, in fact the liar. Transcript: Well, either the President misunderstood the point or he just hasn't been well informed. If you look at the 12 years when Republicans controlled the Congress, the average annual deficit was about $104 billion. I'm not proud of that number. That's too high. But in the three years that Democrats have controlled Congress, the average annual deficit is now $1.1 Trillion. Do the...

Former Republican Study Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) is announcing that he will back Dede Scozzafava in the special election in New York. “I am supporting Dede Scozzafava in her campaign for Congress," Hensarling said in a statement. "I am backing the only Republican in this race who can win and don’t want to lose this seat to Nancy Pelosi for a generation.” The conservative leader's backing should lend Scozzafava some credibility with the right, as Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman gains endorsements from other conservatives like former presidential candidate Fred Thompson and the American Conservative Union. Hensarling's reference suggests...

Political races are about candidates and issues. But election results, in the end, are about numbers. So now that the dust is settling on the 2008 presidential race, what do the numbers tell us?...History will favor Republicans in 2010... Boehner rose from the political dead in 2006 to become House minority leader. And he has managed to survive again, despite a major leadership shuffle after big GOP losses in the 2008 elections. Boehner arrived in the House in 1990 and has long been known as a reformer. As a top lieutenant of ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), Boehner quickly claimed...

Rep. Jeb Hensarling spoke with WNO on the upcoming Republican Regulatory Reform plan and its four parts. "Obamanomics is a failure" “It is a plan that essentially does a few things. Number one, it says no more bailouts. America is tired of turning this into a bailout nation.” “The Democrats, instead, want to go about and create a new office of consumer punishment, not consumer protection, that will actually give an unelected group of bureaucrats the power to take away your credit cards, to take away your mortgages, to say whether or not you can even get interest on your...

House Republican Moves to 'Terminate the TARP' A key House Republican introduced a bill Monday that will set a December 31 deadline for the Treasury Department to lend money to troubled financial institutions. The government launched the $700 billion TARP -- or the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- last fall to bail out banks and other financial institutions whose collapse posed a systemic risk to the US economy. Treasury has since allocated more than $600 billion to dozens of banks, the American Insurance Group (AIG), and failed automakers GM and Chrysler, among other companies. "It's time to terminate the TARP...

If conservative Republicans are right and the $700 billion financial-sector rescue plan signals America's slide into socialism, you'd think Seth Dellinger would be celebrating. "They can reorganize capitalism in different ways, and they will," says Mr. Dellinger, a college graduate turned working-class meat cutter. "But it is above all with a view toward continuing a system in which a small minority of super-rich families controls everything." To Mr. Dellinger, 32, capitalism's crisis may be socialism's opportunity. He's making the case to anyone who will listen that the U.S. should adopt a Cuban-style government before the Bush administration and Congress empty...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A small group of House Republicans urged the Treasury and Federal Reserve against bailing out any more companies on Thursday, saying the government is putting taxpayers on the hook for too much money. "Enough is enough. It is time to bail out the American taxpayer from bailout mania," said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas. Hensarling and others said consumers and companies need tax cuts to help them amid one of the worst financial crises in U.S. history.

House conservatives are renewing their fight to unilaterally ban earmarks for a year within the Republican Party. House GOP leadership has also renewed their own version of an earmark ban, but it's woefully diluted -- it is contingent on Democrats playing along. Frankly, that's too little, too late. But thanks to Jeb Hensarling, Jeff Flake, and the other RSC members who are pushing for an earmark ban now, I'm confident that we'll see a moratorium before the election. I've been told that they have the votes needed (50) to receive a conference-wide vote. This will force leadership to make a...

If Jeb Hensarling (R) of the 5th Congressional District of Texas, is your Congressman, I hope you folks will throw his sorry a** out of office in November. WHAT A LOW-LIFE SCUMBAG. Lou Dobbs just tore him up and the pollitical whore sat there with that crap eating grin on his face and REFUSED to stand up for consumers against the credit card companies. He has been bought off by the major credit card companies. I thought Lou Dobbs was going to reach through the monitor and punch him in his lying mouth.

If you only watch one YouTube video this month, let it be this. Since Democrats took control (Jan. 2007): The price of oil has almost doubledJob growth has been cut in half (80,000 jobs lost in the last two months alone)The average family grocery bill has increased about $70 per monthThe stock market has lost about 10% of its valueHome prices have fallen roughly 8%Consumer price inflation has increased over 4%, the largest calendar increase since the early 90s.Etc.Watch

A Hensarling Sandwich at CPAC by Jillian Bandes Posted: 02/08/2008 After the booing of Sen. John McCain, CPAC attendees were attacked by pundits on the right and left for dividing the Republican Party on its choice of Presidential nominees. But if Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex), had been more of a featured item at CPAC, maybe some of that criticism could have been avoided. Hensarling’s speech came right after Romney’s withdrawal announcement, but his words of reassurance on the nominee issue briefly united the thinned and raucous crowd. “When our nominee is chosen, we will be there and we will enthusiastically...

House conservatives, rejecting protests from fellow Republicans who said they were depriving troops of needed support, stripped $500 million in military projects from a veterans spending bill Friday. Democrats in turn said GOP-backed tax cuts and a tight budget passed two days ago were behind a fiscal crisis leading to the cuts. "I don't know why they (the troops) should be stuck in the middle of a family squabble within the Republican Party," said Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin, top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee. The conservatives, led by Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, used parliamentary procedures to delete some...

Taking the heat By Rebecca Hagelin Oct 18, 2005 Vice President of Communications and Marketing, The Heritage Foundation “In fire, gold is tested,” the saying goes. Just ask Mike Pence. A third-term congressman from Indiana, Pence has been sorely tested lately, enduring a fire that few of us would want to withstand -- and he’s demonstrating that he’s as good as gold. That’s because Pence is largely responsible for the change in attitude we’re seeing in Republican leaders toward spending cuts. Not long ago, they appeared unconcerned about the explosion in growth we’ve witnessed in the size of government over...

Last week we suggested that cancellation of $25 billion in pork projects -- euphemistically known as "earmarks" -- in the recently passed Highway Bill would be a good first step to offset some of the cost of rebuilding the infrastructure in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. The idea of a pork-for-reconstruction swap had already been denounced as "moronic" by a spokesman for Don Young of Alaska, Chairman of the House Transportation Committee and proud father of the now-infamous $223 million "bridge to nowhere" near Ketchikan. Since then the White House and Congressional Republican leadership have been acting as...

Lacking votes to pass the budget, House Republican leaders struck a deal yesterday with conservative members who had demanded reforms to the spending process. The deal is a major win for the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC) and signaled a rare concession from powerful GOP leaders. Republican leaders had charged that the reform demanded by members of the RSC would tie the leadership’s hands and empower House Democrats. But realizing that they would otherwise lack the votes to pass the budget this week, the GOP leaders yesterday agreed to conservatives’ demand that waiving budget rules for future spending bills require...

Hensarling stumps in Cherokee County By Jim Brown - Progress Region Editor Republican Congressman Jeb Hensarling was in Jacksonville and Rusk Friday, stumping for the votes he'll need if he's to become Cherokee County's first Dallas-based representative since courts approved the state's controversial redistricting plan. He was sworn into office in January 2003 after he ran for, and won, the District 5 seat vacated by Rep. Pete Sessions, who now serves District 32. Hensarling, 46, said Friday he understands there is a "natural leeriness" on the part of some locals as to how someone from Dallas can represent East Texans....