Stockman invites Missouri rodeo clown to perform in Texas
Liberals want to bronco bust dissent, create a state of fear
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Stockman Wednesday invited the rodeo clowns who performed at the Missouri State Fair, and were banned or ordered into “sensitivity training” when one clown mocked President Barack Obama, to perform at a rodeo in Texas’ 36th District.
Fair officials did not reveal the clown’s identity.
“Liberals want to bronco bust dissent. But Texans value speech, even if its speech they don’t agree with,” said Stockman, “From Molly Ivins to Louie Gohmert and every opinion between Texans value free and open political speech. I’m sure any rodeo in Texas would be proud to have performers.”
“Disagreeing with speech is one thing. Banning it and ordering citizens into reeducation classes for mocking a liberal leader is another,” said Stockman. “Liberals have targeted this man for personal destruction to create a climate of fear.”
“The liberal reaction is straight out of Alinsky. They want to crush dissent by isolating and polarizing anyone who questions Obama, even if it’s a rodeo clown with a harmless gag,” said Stockman. “The idea to create a state of fear and make people afraid to trivialize Obama. No one tried to personally destroy the rodeo clown who wore a George H.W. Bush mask.”
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Stockman moves to automatically kill unconstitutional Senate Amnesty Bill
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Stockman Thursday sent a letter to
House Speaker John Boehner requesting he immediately kill the Senate’s
amnesty bill, S. 774 through a constitutionally-required “blue slip”
resolution.
“Not only is the Senate amnesty bill an abuse of taxpayers and immigrants, it’s utterly unconstitutional. The Senate cannot invent its own amnesty taxes,” said Stockman. “I hope Speaker Boehner will immediately kill the amnesty bill through a constitutionally-required blue slip. As long as the amnesty bill sits in the House it poses a threat to taxpayers and immigrants.”
Several provisions of the Senate amnesty bill create new taxes, a violation of the “origination clause,” Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, which states “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”
A “blue slip” is a resolution that automatically returns to the Senate any bill that violates the origination clause of the United States Constitution.
Blue slip resolutions are immediately considered as a matter of constitutional privilege, are debatable for an hour and are not subject to amendment.
Section 2102 of the amnesty bill requires the payment of certain taxes and forgives the payment of other taxes as a condition of receiving amnesty and other benefits. The Constitution prohibits the Senate from approving bills that raise revenue.
Stockman also points to the Congressional Budget Office, which flatly states “enacting S. 744 would have a wide range of effects on federal revenues, including changes in collections of income and payroll taxes, certain visa fees that are classified as revenues, and various fines and penalties. Taken together, those effects would increase revenues by $459 billion over the 2014-2023 period.”
Stockman’s letter to Boehner follows.
June 27, 2013
Honorable John Boehner
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Speaker,
When the House of Representatives receives S. 744, I hereby request that you raise a point of order that the legislation violates the origination clause of the United States Constitution; that “all Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.”
Although there are other provisions in the bill which are in violation of the prerogatives of the House, the most obvious is section 2102 which requires the payment of certain taxes and forgives the payment of other taxes as a condition of receiving benefits under this legislation.
The Congressional Budget Office analysis of S. 744, dated June 18, 2013, on page 44 states in part that “enacting S. 744 would have a wide range of effects on federal revenues, including changes in collections of income and payroll taxes, certain visa fees that are classified as revenues, and various fines and penalties. Taken together, those effects would increase revenues by $459 billion over the 2014-2023 period, according to estimates by JCT and CBO.”
Therefore, I urge you to protect the origination clause and the intent of the Constitution by using the ‘blue slip’ to return S. 744 to the Senate.
I am grateful for your service to our nation in upholding the Constitution.
Warmest Regards,
Steve Stockman
“Not only is the Senate amnesty bill an abuse of taxpayers and immigrants, it’s utterly unconstitutional. The Senate cannot invent its own amnesty taxes,” said Stockman. “I hope Speaker Boehner will immediately kill the amnesty bill through a constitutionally-required blue slip. As long as the amnesty bill sits in the House it poses a threat to taxpayers and immigrants.”
Several provisions of the Senate amnesty bill create new taxes, a violation of the “origination clause,” Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, which states “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”
A “blue slip” is a resolution that automatically returns to the Senate any bill that violates the origination clause of the United States Constitution.
Blue slip resolutions are immediately considered as a matter of constitutional privilege, are debatable for an hour and are not subject to amendment.
Section 2102 of the amnesty bill requires the payment of certain taxes and forgives the payment of other taxes as a condition of receiving amnesty and other benefits. The Constitution prohibits the Senate from approving bills that raise revenue.
Stockman also points to the Congressional Budget Office, which flatly states “enacting S. 744 would have a wide range of effects on federal revenues, including changes in collections of income and payroll taxes, certain visa fees that are classified as revenues, and various fines and penalties. Taken together, those effects would increase revenues by $459 billion over the 2014-2023 period.”
Stockman’s letter to Boehner follows.
June 27, 2013
Honorable John Boehner
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Speaker,
When the House of Representatives receives S. 744, I hereby request that you raise a point of order that the legislation violates the origination clause of the United States Constitution; that “all Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.”
Although there are other provisions in the bill which are in violation of the prerogatives of the House, the most obvious is section 2102 which requires the payment of certain taxes and forgives the payment of other taxes as a condition of receiving benefits under this legislation.
The Congressional Budget Office analysis of S. 744, dated June 18, 2013, on page 44 states in part that “enacting S. 744 would have a wide range of effects on federal revenues, including changes in collections of income and payroll taxes, certain visa fees that are classified as revenues, and various fines and penalties. Taken together, those effects would increase revenues by $459 billion over the 2014-2023 period, according to estimates by JCT and CBO.”
Therefore, I urge you to protect the origination clause and the intent of the Constitution by using the ‘blue slip’ to return S. 744 to the Senate.
I am grateful for your service to our nation in upholding the Constitution.
Warmest Regards,
Steve Stockman
Congressman Steve Stockman's AR-15 winner
Dear Patriot,
I’d like to express my heartfelt thanks to the nearly 100,000 participants in a special sweepstakes for an AR-15.
The winning number was drawn on Independence Day in Lumberton, Texas.
The lucky winner has been notified, and pending verification will be presented with the firearm in the coming
days.
If the Minute Men were around today, I believe they would be carrying a rifle resembling the AR-15.
I refer to such firearms as the torch, or symbol, of freedom.
In Washington, where I am honored to serve as a representative in Congress, anti-gunners are clamoring to restrict your right
to keep and bear arms.
They forget that their “just powers” are derived from the “consent of the governed.”
That’s why it’s so important for you, the voter, to stay active in the political battles.
And that’s the real reason I gave away an AR-15 rifle.
I want as many people as possible to be involved in the political process, to be aware of what’s happening to our
liberty.
If it takes giving away a rifle to get more people in involved, then I’ll do it.
Protecting our constitutional rights is what is needed more than ever.
America is great because of the foundation laid more than 230 years ago.
If that foundation is destroyed, America will cease to be great.
It’s as simple as that.
I hope that you agree, and that you will stand with me in this fight for the Constitution and the Second
Amendment.
If you can provide financial support, thank you so much.
Gun grabbers would happy if I were defeated, so I rely on individuals like you for support.
But I also know these are tough economic times for many. So even if you
can’t afford to give right now, please stay active.
I send out frequent updates on legislation, which you can forward to your friends and get even more people active in
politics.
Below is a video of the drawing. Please stay tuned for our next offer, which will
be announced soon!
Warm Regards,
Congressman Steve Stockman
P.S. The drawing of the Ar-15 is over, and it was a tremendous success. Thanks
again to all participants.
You can also donate by check to “Friends of Steve Stockman,” 133 N Friendswood Suite
229, Friendswood, Texas 77546.
The facts on late term abortion, a shocking death toll
According to Planned Parenthood's Guttmacher Institute 4.8% of all abortions are performed
after 17 weeks. At around 1.2 million abortions each year in the US
that's around 60,000 abortions performed late into pregnancy.
Based on 2010 numbers from the CDC, that's more deaths from late term abortions than from influenza each year, and on par with the annual death toll from diabetes. Late term abortions kill almost twice as many people each year than do suicides.
Pro-abortion lobbyists say there are "virtually no" abortions performed that late, but the number of people killed each year by late term abortions is more than the Astrodome can seat.
That's how many babies are shredded alive every year late into pregnancy.
Based on 2010 numbers from the CDC, that's more deaths from late term abortions than from influenza each year, and on par with the annual death toll from diabetes. Late term abortions kill almost twice as many people each year than do suicides.
Pro-abortion lobbyists say there are "virtually no" abortions performed that late, but the number of people killed each year by late term abortions is more than the Astrodome can seat.
That's how many babies are shredded alive every year late into pregnancy.
My statement to The Daily Show
The exercise proves we can cut SNAP benefits by 15%.
As for the the flight, I found out Tuesday I'd be traveling Thursday. Had I spent the $50 to check a bag and bring the last two days of the seven days of food liberals would be whining about that. The fact I went an additional two days with my shopping proves you can stay below the $4.50 figure even when you go longer and run into unexpected travel.
I proved there is double digits worth of room to cut in welfare spending, and that's what has liberals whining.
‘Undisputed 2013 SNAP Challenge Champion’ debunks liberal propaganda
‘SNAP Challenge’ shows plenty of room to cut unsustainable levels of spending
‘Nothing tastes better than debunking liberalism.’
‘If liberals don’t like the results they shouldn’t have issued
the challenge.’
WASHINGTON -- After going a full week on less than the $4.50
a day in food laid out by the “SNAP Challenge,” Donny Ferguson, communications
director and agriculture policy advisor to Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX 36,) is
declaring himself “The Undisputed 2013 SNAP Challenge Champion.”
“Nothing tastes better than debunking liberalism. I proved there’s still lots of room to cut unsustainable
welfare spending and still have filling, delicious meals. The SNAP Challenge is a great tool to show
how much savings we can find in the budget,” said Ferguson. “The only thing Democrats proved is they can’t
budget or control spending. Their only
defense is to trash the SNAP Challenge as an unrealistic publicity stunt.”
“If liberals don’t like the results they shouldn’t have
issued the challenge. I’m not aware of who
else successfully completed all seven days, and I doubt any of them fed
themselves as fiscally responsibly as I did,” said Ferguson. “I’ve been broke much of my life so it’s not
much of a lifestyle change.”
“If liberals cared about the poor they’d stop their agenda
of tax hikes and regulations that kill jobs and make food more expensive. If liberals really cared they’d stop creating
punishing inflation by supporting Audit The Fed and other measures to stop the
Federal Reserve’s reckless inflationary policies,” said Ferguson.
Without a shopping list or coupons, over the week Ferguson
fed himself filling meals for seven days for a final total of around $26.40,
less than the $31.50 weekly budget issued by the SNAP Challenge and less than
his original $27.58 budget. He gained
only one pound and lost one percent body fat.
“I cut the SNAP Challenge Budget by about 16 percent without
the hysterics of overdramatic political activists agitating for more government
control,” said Ferguson. “The proposed
Food Stamp Bill didn’t cut spending, it dramatically increases it. Overall spending on food stamps would have
skyrocketed well beyond the increased rates of suffering we’ve seen under Obama.”
“Liberals are using unsustainable levels of welfare spending
as vote-buying programs. They terrorize the poor and vulnerable with
fictionalized tales of disaster if they don’t deliver their votes,” said
Ferguson. “It’s abusive to the poor,
it’s abusive to the taxpayer, it’s abusive to our system of free elections and
it’s put us on a path to fiscal suicide.”
For the first five days of the Challenge Ferguson stuck to a
daily diet budget of $3.94 a day. That’s
a 12 percent cut to the Challenge’s claimed $4.50 a day in Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Unplanned travel took Ferguson out of town for the last two
days. There, Ferguson purchased two days
worth of food, including meat and fresh fruit, for $6.70, less than the $9.00
allowed over two days. He spent the
remainder of the SNAP Challenge two-day budget on canned food donated to a
local food bank.
For $6.70 Ferguson bought two apples, two bananas, two large
bowls of noodles, two bowls of pre-cooked rice and three cans of pre-cooked
meat.
All remaining untouched food will be donated to a D.C. area
food bank.
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