We avoided the awkward spectacle of a President losing the popular vote but winning the Electoral College. However, a similar misalignment of popular will and electoral results exists in the House of Representatives. Conservatives who want to claim that the…
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Uh oh: looks like Rep. Kristi Noem is going to have to ask for more federal government spending. With climate change expanding the wildfire season, Congress hasn't been allocating enough money to fight wildfires. This year the Forest Service ran…
Dems Cooperate Better Than GOP? Wow! Send Kristi Noem to Congress, and what do you get? The least productive Congress since 1859: The only period of comparable unproductive Congresses (how I long for Congri!) was the Civil War and Reconstruction.…
This is Congresswoman Kristi Noem, literally phoning it in at the July 24 hearing of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs. The subcommittee was hearing testimony on three bills affecting Native American tribes in Oregon and…
While Mr. Powers makes himself look busy posting video of Kristi Noem doing what she said she didn't go to Washington to do, farmers eagerly await our Congresswoman's delivery of real legislation, the 2012 Farm Bill. My friends at SD…
Kevin Woster directs our attention to yesterday's CBS report on the House GOP's latest show vote on repealing the Affordable Care Act. Speaker Boehner, Rep. Kristi Noem, and the GOP gang have spent about 80 hours on these repeal votes.…
A Facebook friend complained that if Affordable Care Act is so great, why did Congress exempt itself from the bill? This friend cited "Page 114, Line 22" of the ACA for this exemption. Like death-panel-myth originator Betsy McCaughey, this friend's…
A fat lot of good Rep. Kristi Noem's "pressure" did: while the deadline loomed, the deficit reduction "super committee" watched football: On Thursday night, wearing a baseball cap and jeans, Camp retreated to Penn Quarter Sports Tavern with Rep. Ander…