Senate to Debate Republican Budget that Balances without Raising Taxes
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding the 5th anniversary of Obamacare and the Republican budget.
By: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
See the article here:
Senate to Debate Republican Budget that Balances without Raising Taxes - Video
Robocall from Republican Party of Wisconsin 03/23/2015
By: blue cheddar
Go here to read the rest:
Robocall from Republican Party of Wisconsin 03/23/2015 - Video
Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is expected to confirm plans to run for president in 2016 on Monday, the Houston Chronicle reports.
WASHINGTON Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz will become the first major candidate for president when he launches his campaign Monday, kicking off what is expected to be a rush over the next few weeks of more than a dozen White House hopefuls into the 2016 campaign.
Cruz will formally get into the race during a morning speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., choosing to begin his campaign at the Christian college founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell rather than his home state of Texas or the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
It's a fitting setting for Cruz, a 44-year-old Tea Party darling whose entry into the 2016 campaign drew cheers Sunday among fellow conservatives.
"The official Republican pool of candidates will take a quantum leap forward with his announcement tomorrow," said Amy Kremer, former head of the Tea Party Express. Cruz's announcement, she said, "will excite the base in a way we haven't seen in years."
His plans were confirmed Sunday by one of his political strategists, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity so as not to preclude the announcement. The Houston Chronicle first reported details about Cruz's campaign launch.
Cruz's announcement is all but certain to be followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and two Senate colleagues, Kentucky's Rand Paul and Florida's Marco Rubio.
His move puts him into the pole position among those whose strategy to win the nomination counts on courting the party's most conservative voters, who hold an outsized influence in the nominating process.
"Cruz is going to make it tough for all of the candidates who are fighting to emerge as the champion of the anti-establishment wing of the party," said GOP strategist Kevin Madden. "That is starting to look like quite a scrum where lots of candidates will be throwing some sharp elbows."
After his election to the Senate in 2012, the former Texas solicitor general established himself as an uncompromising conservative willing to take on Democrats and Republicans alike. He won praise from Tea Party activists in 2013 for leading the GOP's push to partially shut down the federal government during an unsuccessful bid to block money for President Barack Obama's health care law. In December, Cruz defied party leaders to force a vote on opposing Obama's executive actions on immigration. The strategy failed and led several of his Republican colleagues to call Cruz out.
Read the original here:
Republican Ted Cruz to announce campaign for president
Lynchburg (United States) (AFP) - Ultra-conservative Republican US Senator Ted Cruz launched his White House quest on Monday, invoking his abiding faith in God as he effectively kick-started the 2016 presidential race.
The 44-year-old Tea Party favorite from Texas chose Liberty University, the sprawling Christian evangelical bastion founded by Reverend Jerry Falwell, as the site of the official unveiling of his White House ambitions.
Cruz is the first candidate to formally join what will be a crowded Republican field vying to be their party's champion in the marathon slog to succeed President Barack Obama.
"It is a time for truth, it is a time for liberty. It is a time to reclaim the constitution," Cruz told several thousand students at the Virginia campus.
"I believe God isn't done with America," Cruz said.
"I believe in you. I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of America. And that's why today I am announcing that I am running for president of the United States."
- Fierce critic -
Cruz has been a political rock star since he scored a major upset and won a US Senate seat in 2012.
Seen as a provocateur by rivals -- and an intense conservative ideologue even by his supporters -- Cruz is a fierce critic of Obama's administration.
Hitting several conservative buttons, Cruz pilloried Obama's health care law, vowed to abolish the IRS federal tax agency, and slammed the Democratic president's bid to shield millions of immigrants from deportation, calling it an "unconstitutional executive amnesty."
See the original post:
Republican Ted Cruz launches 2016 race with White House bid
WASHINGTON - Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, one of the Republican Party's most conservative members, announced early Monday he is running for the party's 2016 presidential nomination, making him the first among what is expected to be a crowded field of White House hopefuls to officially enter the race.
"I'm running for president and I hope to earn your support!" he tweeted. In an early preview of his campaign message, he says in an accompanying video that "it is going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to make America great again."
Several other Republicans are expected to enter the race in the coming weeks, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and two Senate colleagues, Kentucky's Rand Paul and Florida's Marco Rubio.
Cruz, 44, is the son of an American mother and Cuban-born father and would be the nation's first Hispanic president.
He has considerable appeal among the Republican Party's base of conservative and small-government, low-tax tea party voters. After his election to the Senate in 2012, the former Texas solicitor general quickly established himself as an uncompromising conservative willing to take on Democrats and fellow Republicans alike.
Criticized by members of his own party at times, he won praise from ultraconservative tea party activists in 2013 for leading a 16-day government shutdown in an unsuccessful drive to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Recent Republican history, however, could work against Cruz and other deeply conservative candidates as they battle through state-by-state primaries and caucuses. That selection process is dominated by the most conservative Republican voters and can lead to the nomination of a candidate who is not acceptable to more moderate Republicans and independent voters.
Cruz is set to release a book this summer that he has said would reflect themes of his White House campaign. In a recent Associated Press interview, he said he wants to counter the "caricatures" of the right as "stupid," ''evil" or "crazy."
"The image created in the mainstream media does not comply with the facts," said Cruz, who does not believe in climate change.
Visit link:
Ted Cruz Running For President: Republican Senator Starts Tweeting The News