Representative Alan Grayson News Archives

Florida Rep. Alan Grayson became the latest Democrat with his own dedicated hostile site, thanks to the recent creation of MyCongressmanIsNuts.com Photo: Courtesy Can't stand a member of Congress and desperately want him or her out of office? There's a blog for that.

"The Evangelist The Hitman & The ACLU", a new documentary from 4DPictures.TV, is a film about a former televangelist ex-con, who went from being in prison for attempted murder to leading a local chapter of the ACLU in a fight with City Hall which set a new First Amendment precedent November 28, 2009 -- 4DPictures.TV is proud to announce the ...

Rep. Alan Grayson, Florida Democrat, is trying to make it easier to prevent Senate filibusters, arguing that President George W. Bush got better treatment than President Obama is getting.

Blue America decided to lead off our endorsements for 2010 with a vote from people who have been donating to our PAC and our candidates for the past four years.

What is so important about H.R. 1207: the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 aka the 'Audit the Fed' bill? This bill "To amend title 31, United States Code, to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States and the manner in which such audits are ...

Sarah Palin is keeping a tight lid on her political ambitions for 2012, but her influence on other would-be politicians can by seen by the growing number of women she has inspired to seek public office.

Rep. Ron Paul's amendment would allow the Government Accountability Office to conduct audits of the Federal Reserve.

Published: Monday, November 23, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 11:00 p.m. Former Florida Gov.

A U.S. congressional panel on Thursday approved a measure to open the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decisions to government audits, a surprise blow to the central bank's efforts to shield its independence and a signal of frustration with the central bank.

This sponsors of an amendment to audit the Federal Reserve, Alan Grayson and Ron Paul, are a legislative dream team: a true libertarian who questions whether the Civil War should have been fought and the guy who said that the Republican health care plan is for people to " die quickly ." They have sponsored a bill to allow the first-ever audit of ...

For the first time in history, the Federal Reserve Bank may be facing an audit. Yesterday, the House Finance Committee passed a bill that authorizes the Government Accountability Office to conduct a wide-ranging audit of the Fed's secretive deals with foreign central banks and major U.S. financial institutions.

That's a bad idea. But it will be made a little less bad if Congress establishes some oversight over the largely-unaccountable institution.

Something quite amazing happened yesterday in Congress: the House Finance Committee -- in a truly bipartisan and even trans-ideological vote -- defied the banking industry, the Federal Reserve, the Democratic leadership, and mainstream Beltway opinion in order to pass an amendment, sponsored by GOP Rep.

This news is not directly related to election law, but it is being posted because it concerns Ron Paul, who has been the leading champion in Congress for ballot access reform for the last ten years.

It's time to make some phone calls. It will take less than 10 minutes. Here are the Democrats who support the auditing of the fed.

The House Financial Services Committee will consider today how much to expand audits of the U.S. central bank in a test of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernankea s clout among lawmakers.

A bipartisan effort to force transparency on the Federal Reserve is suddenly in jeopardy after a House Financial Services Committee member introduced an amendment that would let the multi-trillion dollar organization continue throwing tax dollars around in secret.

Posted By Tumultuous 8 hours, 51 minutes ago in Political Opinion A week ago Ken and I were marveling about how one trained congressional chimpanzee after another got up on the House floor and made an identical 60 second speech about why he opposes healthcare reform.

Few targets in the country are more appealing to Republicans than freshman U.S. Rep.

It looks like the call by Erick Erickson of RedState to " purge " the Republican Party in the wake of the NY-23 loss is getting some traction: the Charleston County, South Carolina GOP has actually censured Republican Senator Lindsey Graham for cooperating with the enemy, that is, the Democratic Party.

Healthcare Champions vs. Anti-Choice Democrats The House Healthcare vote focuses attention on two groups of Democrats: those who, despite representing conservative districts, voted against the anti-choice Stupak amendment and for healthcare reform , and those who voted for the Stupak amendment, thus putting women's right to choose at risk.

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David Hedrick of Camas, who attracted national attention last summer for his tirade against health care reform at Rep.

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 1:15 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 1:38 p.m. State Rep.

Move over, Alan Grayson. There's another Florida Democrat who's not afraid to ruffle Republican feathers -- West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

The motion of the ocean aside, here's a quick guide to some Democratic House members that Republicans believe are genuinely vulnerable in a year when President Obama isn't on the ballot.

LETS LOOK AT WHY THE REPUBLICANS " NON-REFORM HEALTH CARE PLAN " FAILED? Gary Ater November 10, 2009 The Republicans Health Care Plan actually was written by the insurance company lobbyists.

Despite having only one Republican in our Congressional delegation, Central Florida's four Representatives were evenly split on the health care reform bill.

The New York Times ' health-care blog has a long post going over the fuzzy numbers House Democrats have used to make their recently released, 1,990-page health-care bill more palatable.

A Republican congressman shouts "you lie" during a presidential speech. A Democratic congressman accuses the GOP of wanting sick Americans to "die quickly." James Leach, the newly installed chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has had enough.

A- Congressman Alan Grayson issued the following statement in response to this morning's shooting: "For the second time in as many days, this country must deal with a heinous act of violence.

A suspect was in custody Friday afternoon after a man opened fire in the offices of an Orlando architecture company that fired him 2A1 2 years ago, killing one person and wounding five others, police and the company said.

Congressional Democrats lost a key vote in the health-care debate Thursday, when U.S. Rep.

After being driven to "despair" at the prospects of Americans receiving healthcare, Representative Bachmann called on her Tea Party constituency to 'scare' members of Congress into killing healthcare reform.

Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., tried to stop the Florida Democrat in the middle of his reading on the House floor Wednesday night.

Grayson reads number of "dead" in GOP districts - Glenn Thrush: Grayson reads number of "dead" in GOP districts Categories: Health Care Grayson reads number of "dead" in GOP districts Rep.

Fixing health care A A Oct. 29: Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., talks about why Congress needs to stand up to insurance companies, fix the health care system and help regular Americans.

The gist: Candidates for office have a long way to go to win public's confidence.

Health care bill brought to House floor A A Nov. 2: Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., discusses the debate on the House floor over the health reform bill as well as whether the Senate is making progress on their own proposal.

Rep. Alan Grayson will be online Monday, Nov. 2, at 1 p.m. ET to discuss health-care and the House's passage last week of a reform bill, his stand on Afghanistan urging President Obama to pull troops out of the country, his use of controversial rhetoric in referring to the Republicans' health-care plan and another incident using an off-color word ...

Last-minute budget wrangling has become an annual event in Congress, which last completed its spending bills on time in 1994.

Few Florida politicians have grabbed national attention as quickly and dramatically as has freshman U.S. Rep.

I don't know much about economics. What I do know is that so many so-called "experts," including politicians and economists, are wrong far more often than they are right.

On paper, Representative Alan Grayson, a freshman Democrat from Florida, seems a bit stiff: degrees from Harvard and Harvard Law; a resume that includes clerking for the United States Court of Appeals under Judges Antonin Scalia , Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Robert Bork ; an advocate for the aging.