Weekly House GOP Review: Just More Dysfunction, Obstruction & Distraction
National Journal – A Bad Week for the GOP's Big Tent
Here's a pretty good sign you're having a bad day. You're a major party leader, and you have to make clear at a press conference that no, you don't believe the Confederate flag should be flown at federal cemeteries, and that no (again), you don't agree with a presidential candidate from your party who has suggested many Hispanic immigrants are diseased rapists.
That was Thursday for Speaker John Boehner….
Pulling the bill didn't solve the GOP's problem, it just postponed it. The underlying spending measure will return at some point, even if it's wrapped into an end-of-year omnibus bill.
Republican leaders are beyond the first step: …they have a problem.
POLITICO – Republican infighting at full throttle
House Republicans have entered a new season of sniping.
GOP leadership has spent weeks twisting arms to get dozens of lawmakers — even some subcommittee chairs — to pony up to the campaign arm, a basic annual obligation of party loyalty.
The party is warring over funding for disease research, bickering over an education bill and deeply divided on the possible renewal of the Export-Import Bank
House Republican leaders argue they've successfully weathered the first half of the year…But they…have been dinged up.
Washington Post – Blame John Boehner for the House GOP's Confederate flag fiasco
Democrats couldn't believe what they were hearing: Just as South Carolina legislators were finally voting to remove the symbol of hatred from their Capitol grounds, Republicans in the U.S. Capitol were proposing to restore the Confederate flag. And they were scheduling the vote for July 9, the anniversary of the adoption of the 14th amendment promising equal protection under law.
Republican leaders, trying to end the humiliation they brought on themselves, pulled the appropriations bill from the floor. But how could such a fiasco occur in the first place?...
Rather, Thursday's Confederate-flag debacle is a direct consequence of House Speaker John Boehner's leadership strategy…
CQ Roll Call – Financial Services Spending Bill Pulled From House Floor Schedule
House leaders will not bring the fiscal 2016 Financial Services spending bill to the floor next week as initially planned, according to three appropriators.
New York Times – Republicans Aim to Hamper Obama's Policies With Spending Bills
From environmental and work force regulations to health care and contraception, congressional Republicans are…setting up a fiscal feud this fall that could lead to a government shutdown.
Washington Post – Republicans again propose blocking Obama's immigration orders
House Republicans are looking to use another annual spending bill to make sure President Obama can't follow through on his executive actions to indefinitely postpone deportation of some undocumented immigrants.
Weeks go by and Speaker Boehner and the House Republican Conference still have nothing to offer to hard-working American families looking to increase their paychecks. So when Speaker Boehner and House Republicans say "the people's priorities are Republicans' priorities," the American people don't believe him because they're fed up with the GOP dysfunction, obstruction and distraction.